Race relations in the US and UK are persistent and seemingly intractable issues. While both countries have had admirable successes in assimilating people from broad ranges of demographic and ethnic identities, at the same time it appears that friction and conflict continue to be a perpetual challenge among different races, especially with social media and the Internet churning away.
As Christians, we have a proactive mandate to affirm the common dignity of all human beings, which dissolves demographic particularity. As the recent instruction from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Infinita, has affirmed, “the dignity of others is to be respected in all circumstances, not because that dignity is something we have invented or imagined, but because human beings possess an intrinsic worth superior to that of material objects and contingent situations...That every human being possesses an inalienable dignity is a truth that corresponds to human nature apart from all cultural change.”
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