Please try again. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. A book that spoke to the predicament people of color face when entering most (white) evangelical churches or church-related organizations. It's a gripping read for anyone from anywhere who's interested in the intersection of iconography, religion, politics, race, and higher education. Of course, they are willing to sacrifice our communities for tithes and offerings. White supremacy isn't just adhered to by people in hoods. What has the response been like? There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. nearly twice as high as would be expected, one of the nation's whitest Christian denominations, forced white Americans to talk about race, Black Atheists, White Santas And A Feast For The Deceased. “To say that Jesus is black — or, more broadly, to say that Jesus is not white — is to say that Jesus identifies with the oppressed and that … (Slaveholders justified slavery with Bible verses. I talked to Duncan about his book, the "demonic" force of white supremacy and the church's role in society during a time of social distancing, social unrest and religious decline. White denominations need to show up, share their wealth and let people of color and street activists lead. I spent most of the last 72 hours in my garden, planting flowers, listening to hymns and bursting into tears. Segregated Christian schools thrived under the guise of religious freedom. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. Jesus was a man of color who was murdered by law enforcement and state-sanctioned violence for insurrection against the Roman Empire. In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatus―a mythology that animates the architecture of salvation―that operates stealthily as a veneer for patriarchal White supremacist, capitalist, and imperialist sociopolitical, cultural, and economic agendas. Courtesy of Lenny Duncan Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We shouldn't be surprised that white Christianity is willing to sacrifice black and brown bodies for the cause of their own personal salvation and relationship with Jesus Christ. We need to acknowledge that a large portion of the American Christian world will never commit to the task of dismantling white supremacy. One of the things I talk about in the book is [the symbolism of Advent] — painting blackness as always in darkness, always as evil and bad, further away from the light of God and all that kind of language we use in our worship. One of the things that we often underestimate with the power of white supremacy is that the people who are the sickest from it, often do not know that they are infected with it. The book had a discernible impact upon the denomination as a whole. As nationwide protests have forced white Americans to talk about race, Duncan's longtime advocacy within the church has become all the more relevant. All of that is bulls***. Unable to add item to List. We will survive this empire. That's the cunning thing about white supremacy is that not only does it always find a scapegoat, but it always finds someone who's doing worse off than you.