Racial injustice and the fierce urgency of now: A conversation with Jemar Tisby, author of “The Color of Compromise”
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode of The Daily Article Podcast, Katharine Elkins interviews Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise.
In his book, Tisby presents "a historical survey from the colonial era on up to the present [to] show how in each historical period of US history, Christians compromise with racism instead of confronting it.”
As Tisby says in this bonus podcast, "When it comes to racial injustice, we need to respond to the fierce urgency of now.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast, presented by the Denison |
| 0:07.6 | Forum. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, my name is Catherine Elkins with the Denison Forum, and I have the unique pleasure of |
| 0:15.0 | introducing you to Jamar Tisbee. |
| 0:17.5 | Jamar Tisby is a Christian, historian, writer, and speaker. |
| 0:21.6 | His first book, The Color of Compromise, The Truth About the American Church's |
| 0:26.6 | complicity in racism was released in January of 2019. |
| 0:30.6 | He is writing his dissertation as part of the PhD program in history at the University of Mississippi. |
| 0:36.6 | He serves as president of the witness, |
| 0:39.2 | a black Christian collective that engages issues of religion, race, justice, and culture from a |
| 0:44.8 | biblical perspective. And he's the co-host of its podcast, Pass the Mic. He grew up in the Chicago |
| 0:51.6 | area and became a Christian at the age of 16 through a youth group. |
| 0:55.6 | He went to Notre Dame, although he has never been Catholic, spent a semester in Jerusalem, |
| 1:00.9 | and stayed an extra year at Notre Dame to work in campus ministry. |
| 1:04.3 | He joined Teach for America and taught sixth grade for four years, bless his heart, at a public |
| 1:09.4 | charter school in the Mississippi Delta. |
| 1:11.7 | He then went to reformed theological seminary in Orlando for a year, but then God called me |
| 1:17.4 | back to my former school, he said, to be principal for three years. In June of 2011, he moved |
| 1:23.0 | to Jackson, Mississippi to finish his endive at RTS Jackson. He has a wife and a son. Welcome to the podcast, Jamar. Thank you for having me. Yes. Well, let's get right into it because I know you have limited time. You grew up in the Chicago area. How did you become a Christian? Yeah, so my family, we weren't very religious. We weren't |
| 1:47.7 | anti-religion or anything like that. Just wanted a high priority. And then I got into high school, |
| 1:54.0 | and I'll never forget, it was first period health class. And this kind of dorky guy with glasses |
| 2:00.2 | and corny jokes, he reaches out to me and |
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