Jesus in The Parable of The Lost Coin (Luke 15:8-10) equates the joy of the woman who finds a coin that was lost with the joy realized by the angels of God over a sinner who repents.
We can be certain the joy of the woman had nothing to do with the 1st Timothy 6:10 admonishment that the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
However, it the lack of money, specifically the white-black wealth gap that has been the source of all kinds of evil.
Data from the independent, nonpartisan Center for American Progress indicates that the median wealth of Black households in the was $24,100, compared with $189,100 for white households.
The persistent Black-white wealth gap is the result of a discriminatory economic system that keeps Black households from achieving the American dream.4 This system has always made it difficult for Black households to acquire and keep capital, and this lack of capital has created a persistently large racial wealth disparity, as African Americans have had less wealth to pass on to the next generation than white households.
But a lack of capital does not mean a lack of faith. With faith there is hope for economic justice, with faith there is hope for the ending of predator lending prices, the elimination of student loan debt and equity in employment, housing, along with access to the ballot.
When she found the coin the woman in the parable calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ The lost coil of economic justice has eluded Black people since we arrived on these shores in 1619.
Nonetheless, there is joy in our economic odyssey for in our disparity we have found favor with the Lord. God has given Black people the grit, the resourcefulness, and the ability to make a way out of no way even when white people enjoy the systematic privilege that centuries of a system tilted to their advantage has given them.
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