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According to Cone: "Ontologically, blackness is a symbol of all oppressed people, and whiteness is the symbol of oppressors. Physiologically, black is the historical color of oppressed people, and white is the color of their oppressors." —S. D. Morrison
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"The ontological is universal, the physiological is particular, and they are dialectically connected. . . .
. . . In other words, we could also say that 'whiteness' is a mindset, and white skin is a physical trait that most often results in a mindset of whiteness. The two are not always the same, but white people often adopt whiteness by default."
"The harsh reality of Cones critique comes off as a total rejection of all white-skinned people, but this is to ignore the unique way he uses the term 'whiteness'." — S. D. Morrison
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Many white-skinned evangelicals have told me that Cone was racist towards white people. In reality, this response is intrinsically racist because of the unwillingness to consider if oneself is racist. It is an expectation that I must justify why said evangelical is racist.
A general unwillingness to even hear the critic and the counter rejection is the fruit of complicit and implicit white supremacy
"White theology cannot know the God of the oppressed because its knee remains on the neck of the black and powerless despite their cries for help. These are God's cries. God died with George Floyd. God suffered and suffocated at the hands of white supremacy. . . . 1/3
. . . The radical conclusion we must draw from Cone's theology is that these cries of unrest are God's Word to white America. It is a call for us to repent of white supremacy and turn to the God of the poor and powerless. . . 2/3
. . . White supremacy, the white theology that supports it, and the silent white Churches that do nothing in the face of injustice are culpable; they murdered God in the death of George Floyd." 3/3
—S. D. Morrison #JamesConeInPlainEnglish
—S. D. Morrison #JamesConeInPlainEnglish
