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Darrell Wayenberg's avatar

Every white person should, at the very least, read the first chapter of The Cross and the Lynching Tree - it is an absolute gut-punch in all the right ways - incredibly enlightening! It broke me the first time I read it and I needed to be broken in that way.

I would also add, Rethinking Incarceration, by Dominique Gilliard, to go along with Just Mercy. Those books together will make you think hard about our “justice system.”

Rob Fairbanks's avatar

I agree. Particularly, Cone's. It is a classic, and I have felt like every Pastor in America should read it.

John Schwartz's avatar

I really like Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins

Rob Fairbanks's avatar

Yep. Love it! Perkins is a legend.