I very much appreciate the position these Christian ethicists are taking,  in giving reasoned witness against those who promote views contrary to our shared humanity and universal brother and sisterhood.  

But let us recognize that the  country those racist others would like to see bears a significant resemblance to the country we have been building all along. They just want to be more overt about it, to more openly operate and celebrate the machinery of White supremacy, for which those statues are merely symbols.  

I hope these Christian ethicists next lend their talents to the pressing question of true reparations for past and ongoing harms.  The debt is immense. It is material. And we all have a share. It is a debt that begs attention, if we are to more closely approach the body of Christ. Or so it seems to me.