Would racial tensions be less:
- if there were still slavery?
- if Blacks and Hispanics in the US - or Blacks and Asians - stayed in their low-pay reserve army of labour jobs?
- if "troublemakers" didn't demand equal rights, equal pay, parity of esteem?
Probably. But only from one side, from the majority.
Do we say that Ethnic minorities should stay in their low-pay jobs, or be refused access to this country or the US, because it will only make the White supremacists more vocal?
No way!
But we cry, "Justice!" Not because it it is easy or it makes life easy. It won't. But because it is the right thing to do. Racial and cultural justice are always going to have to be fought for; people are xenophobic. But there is hope, because God says that we are all made in His image. Those of us who are Christians share in the Eucharist, knowing that we are equals, redeemed and redeemable.
