1/ What angers right-wing whites about @ReverendWarnock is what angered them about Jeremiah Wright. They can't comprehend the black prophetic tradition. Their Christianity is abt atoning for personal sin. For black folk it's also about atonement for collective sin like racism...
2/ The Black tradition sees Exodus not as a story about ancient Israelites alone, but as a story fully representative of their own search for the promised land -- a search ongoing and NOT fulfilled yet. For white conservatives, America is already the "shining city on a hill..."
3/ The Black tradition allows for an understanding of the cross and the lynching tree as symbolic synonyms (and even quite literal ones) (see James Cone), and to see America's sins as being judged by God...
4/ ...and yet the same people who claim every storm, flood and mass shooting as proof God is judging America for taking prayer out of school, have a hard time imagining that same God judging us for white supremacy? Fascinating...
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