The Contradictions of 'Assimilation' | Sojourners

The Contradictions of 'Assimilation'

Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

When my white wife held her baby boy and girl to her chest for the first time, she cried. Falling from her cheeks onto their heads, her tears baptized them into a world that was confused and colliding and in desperate need of grace.

But she did not cry because she had brown babies.

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