"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
#JamesConeInPlainEnglish
#JamesConeInPlainEnglish
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
However, having white skin in a white supremacist society ultimately makes oneself complicit with the white supremacy.
The one-drop rules demonstrates that a person may have extremely white skin and still be discriminated by white supremacy by whites with darker skin.
In one example, my white evangelical friend was mocked many times for having a black person in his family tree many generations back.
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