{"id":178,"date":"2019-03-20T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcaracialjustice\/?p=178"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:43:23","slug":"a-time-for-reflection-by-marcus-kunz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcaracialjustice\/a-time-for-reflection-by-marcus-kunz\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time for Reflection by Marcus Kunz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>A Reflection on Reading <em>The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a preacher. Like so many others I have been long convinced that Christ crucified is at the heart of authentic Christian preaching. So, when I first learned of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbisbooks.com\/the-cross-and-the-lynching-tree.html\">The Cross and the Lynching Tree<\/a><\/em> by James Cone, I was interested. I remembered the ominous words I had heard in graduate school about Cone\u2019s \u201cradical\u201d critique of traditional Christian teaching (or rather, as I have since learned, what it was thought to be from a certain privileged perspective). Nonetheless I still thought I would learn something new about Christ crucified from a perspective that is not my own. So, I put it on my mental list of books to read \u2026 where it remained for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically what revived my intention last spring was news of death. A new memorial and museum of lynching and its legacy in the United States \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/museumandmemorial.eji.org\/memorial\">National Memorial for Peace and Justice<\/a> \u2014 opened in Montgomery, Alabama. And then, just days later, I saw a report of Cone\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Cone wrote that his book was a continuation of his earlier writing, all of it \u201cmotivated by a central question: how to reconcile the gospel message of liberation with the reality of black oppression.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m not qualified to judge whether he was successful in that effort, and I don\u2019t know that I gained the kind of insight into Christ\u2019s crucifixion that I anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, something else happened.\u00a0 As I read, I began to realize how little I knew about lynching beyond what I had allowed myself to acknowledge \u2014 the bare facts of its existence and its brutality. I began to learn about the circumstances of actual lynchings, the real people killed, and the real people who protested at the risk of being lynched themselves. I learned about the horrific lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, and the courageous public advocacy of Ida Wells. When I discovered the <a href=\"https:\/\/lynchinginamerica.eji.org\/report\/\">county-by-county data about lynchings<\/a> in the United States collected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/eji.org\/\">Equal Justice Initiative<\/a>, I investigated what had happened in the counties where I grew up, starting with Anderson County, Texas, where I was born.<\/p>\n<p>And then I learned about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/news\/tdih\/slocum-massacre\/\">Slocum Massacre<\/a>. It was an appalling event. Over the course of two days in July, 1910, mobs of white people in Anderson County hunted and killed African-Americans. Newspapers initially reported 8 to 22 African-American victims, but later investigations discovered numerous bodies in swamps and other remote areas of the county. Estimates range up to 200 victims, all of them African-American. As happened later in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rosewood, Florida, a thriving community of small businesses was destroyed and hundreds of African Americans who survived fled the area, abandoning their property and businesses, which were then claimed by white people.<\/p>\n<p>Learning about the Slocum Massacre helped me to realize the result of the way I held the knowledge I had of these and far too many similar incidents of violence against African Americans in the United States. I thought of them as isolated incidents, horrific and inexplicable in their horror except as outbreaks of demonic evil. How can such inexplicable outbreaks be anticipated and prevented?<\/p>\n<p>But I already knew that in Jesus\u2019 day crucifixion was not inexplicable. Far from it. It had a very deliberate purpose. Occasionally I hear that if Jesus had been executed in our day, the symbol of our faith would be an electric chair or syringe, not a cross, and I know there are racial inequities in the administration of capital punishment in the United States. But the public spectacle, the false pretense of avenging some fabricated wrong, the obscenely brutal torture, and the deliberate humiliation of a targeted victim as a way of intimidating and keeping an entire community in a subjugated place \u2014 what lynching did to African-Americans and other persons of color is everything that I knew crucifixion was intended to do two millennia ago.<\/p>\n<p>Paying attention to the full reality of lynching, both in detail and in broad scope, helped me to begin to recognize how lynching was not so mysteriously inexplicable. And I began to recognize how it fits with other realities I was aware of but held as isolated pieces of information. I see more clearly now how lynching is part of a seamless history of violence against African Americans in the United States that continues today. After the massive crime of slavery was outlawed, lynching was used to enforce the Jim Crow regime that kept African Americans in subjection. In turn the illegal practice of lynching was replaced by abusive practices with a thin veneer of legality but still powerfully oppressive and violent \u2014 a racially targeted \u201cwar on drugs,\u201d the racial bias in our criminal justice system most evident in mass incarceration of persons of color, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/projects\/reparations\">legalized practices of predatory lending<\/a> that systematically rob economically vulnerable descendants of slaves from what little wealth they have been able to accumulate. Today restrictive voting laws target the African Americans who were promised full and equal voting rights. It is all one interwoven fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades ago, when I was watching the last episode of \u201cThe Civil War\u201d by Ken Burns on PBS, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V0MmfgEZnaE\">historian Barbara Fields<\/a> caught my attention with these words: \u201cYou can say there\u2019s no such thing as slavery anymore, we\u2019re all citizens. But if we\u2019re all citizens, then we have a task to do to make sure that that, too, is not a joke. If some citizens live in houses and others live on the street, the Civil War is still going on. It\u2019s still to be fought, and regrettably, it can still be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am a preacher, and I\u2019ve promised to tell the truth about Jesus, who was crucified and raised from the dead. One part of the truth is that while we may think the Civil War is over, that lynching is a thing of the past, it is not. The same hateful violence that crucified Jesus is still at work among us today. The other part of the truth is that those who have been joined to Jesus Christ in his cross and resurrection have a new life of freedom and the Spirit\u2019s power. In that life, in Jesus\u2019 name, there is healing, reconciling, liberating, life-giving work to do in service of our neighbors, especially those who continue to experience the regime of violent hatred that crucified Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the work of the Equal Justice Iniative, visit eji.org.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-179 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2019\/03\/Marcus-Kunz-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Marcus Kunz is an ELCA pastor who serves part-time with the churchwide organization as Executive for Discernment of Contextual and Theological Issues and part-time in interim ministries, currently at Grue and Peace Lutheran Churches of Ashby, Minnesota.\u00a0 He lives in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, with his spouse, Pastor Martha Halls.\u00a0 They are the parents of two adult sons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Reflection on Reading The Cross and the Lynching Tree I am a preacher. 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