I Need to Tell You About My Racism: A Letter of Repentance and a Call Towards Healing - Paperback

Before you can heal what you didn't cause, you must face what you carry.

You know racism is wrong. You believe in equality. But somewhere deep inside, there is a discomfort you cannot name, a nerve of vulnerability that fires whenever the conversation turns personal. You deflect. You disengage. You say the right things while avoiding the harder truth: that the racism woven into our culture has also been woven into you. And you have no idea where to begin pulling at the thread.

In I Need To Tell You About My Racism: A Letter Of Repentance and a Call Towards Healing, Rev. Michael Young does what few white Americans have been willing to do publicly. He traces the racism he inherited from a family he loved and admired, confronts it with unflinching honesty, and charts a path toward an expanded theology of connection grounded in Christian faith. Through memoir, history, and spiritual reflection, he offers not a lecture but an invitation: to sit in the discomfort, to interrogate your own story, and to discover that antiracism is not a political stance but a way of being that rehumanizes us all.

Inside these pages, you will find:

- A deeply personal model for examining inherited racial bias with truth and vulnerability

- Historical context that reframes what you were taught about race, slavery, and white supremacy in America

- A spiritual framework for moving from guilt and fragility toward genuine repentance, empathy, and healing