"[Zacchaeus] is not just doing it personally, he's a part of a Roman system of taxation...Matthew was benefiting from a system. He said 'to follow you [Jesus] I can't pretend I've not received the benefits of that system.' That's not reparations, that's repentance." @jtrob3

Imagine we played 400 rounds of Monopoly + every time I got money, I had to give it to my counterpart...My counterparts say 'Why aren't you winning?' That question, asked again + again, would echo back to all the rounds you defrauded me...I would want to burn the whole game down.

"'Let's just pray. Let's just pray. God, change the world.' But we don't wanna talk about how the world got that way...We have to pray to help [the racially indifferent] actually see the disparities in their community...and they would actually begin to become aware of history."

"A woman asked, 'There's so many black people that won't come to our church'...I said, 'Find a black church + invest money into them!' We have to reconfigure the way we think about salvation + the kingdom coming in, because maybe everybody won't come into our space."

"I guess Derek Chauvin, the guy with the knee on the neck, I guess he's racist. I mean, we've deemed him racist...You have to ask yourself, if you are not dismantling racism, you are allowing the knee of racism to choke out black people year after year after year."

"It is a rebuke on the white evangelical church when we have spent all this money to go across the globe to bless black people and dig wells, and we are not willing to go across the railroad tracks where we know there's brokenness because we hide ourselves from our own flesh."

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