Do you feel tired of fighting the same racial battles over and over?

Tired of waiting for the next racial controversy?

Tired of the same arguments and getting nothing done?

George Yancey is tired.

But not so tired to give up hope.

That’s why he wrote Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism (IVP). Yancey describes colorblindness as a path that goes nowhere and antiracism as a path full of dangerous animals. As an alternative, he proposes mutual accountability. He believes this approach (contrary to colorblindness) will produce a group that wants to address and not ignore unfair racial outcomes. This group also realizes antiracism polarizes instead of producing sustainable change. These are “my people,” writes Yancey, professor of sociology at Baylor University.

He joined me on Gospelbound to discuss why he’s skeptical of activism and protest, why he doesn’t call America racist, and why diversity training doesn’t work, among other topics. No doubt he’ll get you thinking, talking, and maybe even disagreeing when he argues that we need unity before justice.