- Picture is a mockingbird.

- My essential question is how do racial barriers threaten society at large?
- Racial inequalities loom large amidst American society.

- Picture is a woman holding a sign calling for a stop to racist attacks.

- In the article “Breaking Through Racial Barriers,” author Dr. David A. Anderson addresses the issue of racial prejudice from a Christian standpoint.
- Racial barriers and prejudice have divided people groups throughout history for centuries.

- Picture is a black game piece separated from red games pieces. This symbolizes a divide between different races.

- the author says, “In order to break through racial barriers one must have a broken heart. When I see the pain of my white friends who feel guilty about the racial injustices of the past and the discriminative inequities of the present, I am vexed. When I see the pain of African Americans, immigrants, women, and other groups it breaks my heart.”
- Racial barriers build not only walls around different people groups but walls around our ability to love.

- Picture is the Holocaust Memorial. The Holocaust was the highly racial, extremely unloving, genocide.

- Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King once declared, “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” (Web)
- A society with racial prejudice lacks love.

- Picture is MLK during a nonviolent, peaceful protest.

Anderson, David. “Breaking Through Racial Barriers.” Auburn, Auburn Seminary.
https://auburnseminary.org/voices/racial- barriers/#, Accessed 05 November 2019.


Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1960. Print.