Want to end racism? The answer is found in Jesus Christ

The Church of England’s director of racial justice Guy Hewitt says he’s wrestling with “a growing pessimism” when it comes to combatting racism. But this Black History Month, he’s choosing to look to Jesus, and the ultimate hope that is found in him

As a child of the cultural revolution, the Swinging 60’s imbued me with an insatiable sense of optimism.

The decolonisation, civil rights, feminist, sexual and other liberation movements brought hope to that all was possible in multiethnic Britain and across the modern Commonwealth. 

Standing on the shoulders of our ancestors, each generation is expected to build on the fortunes of their predecessors, safeguarding the future for successive generations. But the recent riots over the summer highlighted that ours is an ethnically dis-United Kingdom, in which alternative realities exist: a perilous one for those who, because of ethnicity, feared for life and limb (my son’s Welsh Asian friend was racially assaulted in London) and a largely unperturbed one for the beneficiaries of white privilege, who continued life as normal.  

As I struggle to maintain my hope, I am reminded that faith does not make things easy but, rather, possible. Like Sojourner Truth, I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.  

One of the disturbing features of the race riots…