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America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

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The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

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To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?

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Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

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To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

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It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

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The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

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