In response to my critique of multiracial churches, many people have asked me what these spaces should look like and how to make that happen. Those are the wrong questions. The question is “Who must I become and how do I do that?”
1. Educate yourself on structural racism and POC theologies. Notice the “educate yourself” part. You should do this in partnership with POC but not by asking them to educate you.
2. Immerse yourself in worship spaces led by and catering to PoC until you feel at home in them.
3. Delve deep into your implicit & explicit biases & race/gender privilege. Admit your racism seventy times seven times.
4. Submit to the leadership of POC and be accountable to them. It’s important that these be “high identity” POC who are themselves well-educated about race and racism.
5. Get really frustrated and to the point of giving up. And then start all over again.
6. Find a woke therapist who can help you to process all your racial baggage and to develop racial, cultural, and emotional self-awareness. Cause expecting POC to deal with your white fragility is an act of white supremacy.
7. When you get accused of racism, receive it, work it out with other white folks and your woke therapist, and repent.
8. Believe with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength that this is what the LORD desires of us. [This should have been first].
