Kumar Rajagopalan

Eliminating racial discrimination starts with the church

21 March 2025Immediately after the Israelites left Egypt, Pharoah and his officials regretted their decision and set out to capture and re-enslave them (Exodus 14: 5-9). Power and privilege, accrued through oppressive discriminatory practices are never willingly relinquished, which is borne out in history. In Racial Conflict in Global Society, Stone and Rizova cite the work of Van den Berghe who compared race relations in apartheid-era South Africa (1948-1960), with “relationships between Blacks and Whites…