This week, you watched the famed “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The speech inaugurated an unprecedented awakening in our nation to the ills of racism and racial injustice—speaks of truth and justice. Racial injustice and racism is wrong. Few would disagree. But how can we hold to these ethical imperatives if we don’t believe truth to be absolute and timeless. In short, if truth is relative, then does that make racism okay? The racial conversations our nation right now assumes—rightly—that there is a right and a wrong. Based on this, reflect on the following two questions:
- Can we say that “truth is relative” and that “racism is absolutely wrong” at the same time?
- Do you believe that justice is possible without the willingness to say there is truth and error?
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