The media has made racial tensions worse than they should be by highlighting stories of black victims and white perpetrators and using language that insinuates that the cause of the assault was due to racial differences. Usually, this causes an eruption of anger and outcry in the black community, as we’ve seen with the Trayvon Martin case and police brutality in 2020. 

The question that should leave many Christians to ponder is: what does God’s word say about race, and how should we respond?

The violence tearing apart the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo barely makes the news, especially in Western media. But silence from the media does not permit Black Christians to be silent. We cannot ignore the suffering of our brothers and sisters simply because their pain feels far away.

America loves to call itself “One nation under God” and proudly sings “God Bless America” as if the phrase alone proves divine favor. Since 1776, the United States has carried a Christian identity, at least on the surface. But as the decades passed, especially since the 1990s, Christianity has declined, skepticism has risen, and the nation has opened its doors to countless belief systems.

Europeans are not more blessed than Africans. The differences in history do not reflect divine favoritism; they reflect oppression, injustice, and Satan’s long‑term strategy to sow confusion, division, and lies that keep people from seeing Christ clearly.

A lot of people from West and Central Africa, and across the Black diaspora, have wondered why their homelands don’t show up in the pages of Scripture. When you grow up in a world where history books reduce your ancestors to slavery, colonization, and suffering, it’s easy to feel like the Bible wasn’t written with you in mind.

In Daniel 12:4, the angel tells him, “But you, Daniel, keep these words secret and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam about, and knowledge will increase.”

That last line, knowledge will increase, feels like it was written for our generation.