Of course, as Tisby points out, that these exemplars were small in number and greatly abused by fellow Christians for speaking against racial bigotry. Others, confronted with the church’s inadequate response, shift attention to a multiracial cast of heroic figures-like William Wilberforce, Francis Grimke, or Martin Luther King Jr.-whose contributions paint the church in a better light. Because this history is so painful to remember, many believers would rather bury it. Kaffee, demanding that American Christians learn and teach the hard truth about the church’s complicity in racial injustice.įor far too long, some in the church have assumed the defiant pose of Col. In The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby (president of the black Christian collective The Witness) adopts the posture of Lt. At the climax of the 1992 classic A Few Good Men, Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) famously screams, “You can’t handle the truth!” Responding to questions from Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) about a military cover-up, he confirms his role in the scandal but maintains that the public would rather not know the ugly and gory details of his job.
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