"Negroes in this country..are taught really to despise themselves from the moment their eyes open on the world. This world is white and they are black..and the world has innumerable ways of making this difference known and felt and feared."
—James Baldwin
My goodness.
—James Baldwin
My goodness.
"Baldwin discusses the adverse psychological effects of those white Christian theological systems to both justify slavery and devalue black subjectivities. The rabid antiblackness in such dangerous fabrications was alarming to Baldwin, who unmasked them as distortions."
—C. White
—C. White
Theology must make visible the world of those on the margins who have been diminished, devalued, and destroyed. To say that humanity is in the image of God, and to say that Black humanity images God, is to state, as M. Shawn Copeland writes, "a disregarded theological truth."
So to take seriously Black humanity and the inhumanity we are forced to endure, is also to take seriously the theological work James Baldwin did in deconstructing white racist theology while constructing a healthier theology that sees, embraces, and loves Black bodies and people.
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