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Tail light sheds light on racism

The treatment of a black youth for a broken tail light, a black friend’s struggles, and her large congregation’s low turnout for the ELCA’s second webcast on racism leaves Michelle DeRusha, an ELCA member and blogger for the Huffington Post, writing that she’s not “cool” with her “96 percent white church.” To read her blog, click here.

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