Really looking forward to reading this new @Profkins book:
"What goes on so often today in white evangelical circles is a misunderstanding. There’s a belief that when it came to the civil rights movement, those white Christians just kind of missed it...
"What goes on so often today in white evangelical circles is a misunderstanding. There’s a belief that when it came to the civil rights movement, those white Christians just kind of missed it...
https://twitter.com/KennethEFrantz/status/1409989389795610632
...and unfortunately, this wasn’t a time where we applied biblical ethics to a social situation that was occurring around us...[T] wasn't the story...The story was that these white evs had a different hermeneutical lens that they were using to read Scripture.
[After the Civil Rts Act] ...they're no longer able to openly say, 'Listen, God's a segregationist"...[but] they don't stop believing....they continue to believe that segregation is right...but the way they talk about it changes."
They began to talk about it in terms of colorblindness & individualism & the problem is we have this overbearing government that’s coming in & forcing these changes, & really what we should be doing is treating people not as members of a race, but...as individuals...
and we should just be blind to the racial differences between us....if you understand the genesis of this colorblind argument as being in this moment of warding off integration, colorblindness was not a good faith argument. It was a defensive posturing...
If you understand where this language comes from, you...understand that we shouldn’t be surprised that we’re incredibly racially divided in the Am church, in large pt because these colorblind, individualistic tools that white ev Chrs cling deeply to came from a pd of segregation.
In the same way...this idea that you have to do what’s best for your family, & that God has made you the head of your family...that it’s your Chr duty as a parent to do what’s in their best interest. This...defend[s] the move from integrated public schools to private Chr schools.
Until white ev Chrs begin to grapple with the historical development of colorblindness and individualistic theology, you’re not going to make much progress in actually bringing about this reconciliation that so many of them profess to have when it comes to the issue of race."
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