How did American racism get to this point?

Joel Goza’s debut book contributes significantly to the searching examination of Ameri­can and Christian racism that is developing in our apocalyptic time.

Goza is a young white pastor from an evangelical background (Wheaton Col­lege and more) who has chosen to settle with his family in Houston’s black- and Latino-dominated, deeply impoverished Fifth Ward. There he has had the opportunity to observe white America’s historical and daily decision simply to throw away many black and brown people’s lives as if they don’t matter.

He is focused not just on America’s “addiction” to racism but also its addiction to economic inequality tied to race; that is, “racialized poverty.” Goza’s book emerges from a fully disillusioned quest to understand how it is that our country got to this evil place. He urgently seeks to discover what went wrong in both politics and religion.