Evangelical Pastor Explains What He Sees As The Root Of Racism
“White people can be so defensive about this subject.”
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Evangelical pastor Carl Lentz is taking white Americans to task for getting “defensive” when it comes to addressing racism.
In a recent conversation with Oprah Winfrey on SuperSoul Sunday, the television star asked Lentz what he sees as the “root of racism.”
The pastor responded, simply: “Ignorance.”
“Ignorance is a lack of information, which creates insecurity; insecurity creates defensiveness, and defensiveness creates attack,” Lentz, the lead pastor of Hillsong Church NYC, told Oprah. “It frustrates me that people want to act like this isn’t a conversation. White people can be so defensive about this subject.”
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