On a more serious note, this is part and parcel of what Carles Mills has called the "epistemology of ignorance," necessary for the maintenance of the Racial Contract.

If interested, the following long quote will clarify. 1/ 2/ "[O]n matters related to race, the Racial Contract prescribes for its signatories an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance, a particular pattern of localized and global cognitive dysfunctions (which are psychologically and socially functional), producing the

The sooner you realize the whole "Christian" masculinity cult, with their broader theology and ideology, is just a conscious or unconscious justification for controlling, manipulating, and exploiting women as sex slaves, the sooner you'll understand the movement.

They didn't 1/ 2/ think their way through rigorous study into their theology/ideology and then realize that women happen to be subordinate receptors of their abuse, as some might think. No, that was the demiurge of the whole movement. The ideology is the justificatory effect, not the cause.

Rev. Dr. King on his own death:

"If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention 1/ 2/ "that I have a Nobel Peace Prize—that isn’t important. Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards—that’s not important. Tell them not to mention where I went to school. I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to

Rev. Dr. King on power:

"One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. It was this misinterpretation that caused 1/ 2/ "Nietzsche, the philosopher of the “will to power,” to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject Nietzsche’s philosophy of the “will to power” in the name of the Christian idea of love. What is needed

Rev. Dr. King on Marx:

"In short, I read Marx as I read all of the influential historical thinkers—from a dialectical point of view, combining a partial yes and a partial no. Insofar as Marx posited a metaphysical materialism, an ethical relativism, and a strangulating 1/ 2/ "totalitarianism, I responded with an unambiguous “no”; but insofar as he pointed to weaknesses of traditional capitalism, contributed to the growth of a definite self-consciousness in the masses, and challenged the social conscience of the Christian churches, I responded with

What's so odd to me about the way these Christian Nationalists talk about voting rights is that there is literally no mention of voting or democracy anywhere in the Bible. Nowhere. Nothing. The ideas that created our democracy (yes, I know, democratic republic) were products 1/ 2/ of the Enlightenment, like it or not, and rested on the idea that every individual was a rational agent capable of freedom, discerning the moral good, etc. The reason why the voting franchise was not extended to women and most "races," whether they owned property or not, is

Stephen Wolfe, Presbyterian (PCA) and author of The Case For Christian Nationalism, stating plainly that women should not be allowed to vote.

Are you starting to understand what Christian Nationalism is really about? H/T @C_Lee_W

If you have not already, it would behove you to include Charles Mills' "epistemology of ignorance" in your conceptual toolkit.

Though a long quote from Mills (sorry), the following is absolutely clarifying: 1/ 2/ "[O]n matters related to race, the Racial Contract prescribes for its signatories an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance, a particular pattern of localized and global cognitive dysfunctions (which are psychologically and socially functional), producing the

Well, shooting a block away from our house. Two dead. Shooting next door a few years ago, shooting across the street last year, gun chucked in our yard while dude runnin' from cops, car slapped up in our lawn after a car chase, ugh. And we're in the "good" neighborhood, hahaha. StockTown!

This is one of the more insightful pair of paragraphs I've ever read:

"Welfare is based upon the norm set up by the Puritans long ago. A man is defined as a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, healthy, ambitious, earnest, and honest, a man whom the Lord smiles upon by increasing 1/ 2/ "the fruits of his labor. Welfare is designed to compensate people insofar as they deviate from that norm. Insofar as a woman has an illegitimate child, she receives compensation. Insofar as a man is disabled, he receives compensation. Insofar as a person is too old to work,

Just now learning that Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, and many Black ministers condemned D. L. Moody for his segregated revivals, religious sanctification of social segregation, and his contribution to sectional union absent racial justice. Wells said that Moody "encouraged the drawing of the color line in the churches."

Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) has described Critical Race Theory as “a way of seeing and thinking about race that denaturalizes racial inequality.”

Allow me to flesh this out, thereby offering one way to understand CRT.

A thread: 2/ Race is not a natural, biological, “out there” entity such that it exists independently of law and society. Rather, it is a product of human social interaction, a construction of social reality. Further, race and racial categories were historically created to justify and

Wow! Exciting and groundbreaking stuff! I've NEVER heard a conservative blame Black people for their own suffering (after 500 years of genocide, slavery, jim crow, and consistent racism)!

Better publish this on a Christian "gospel" site immediately! 2/ Nevermind the ACTUAL research, I'm sure it's just a secret Marxist ploy!

Broadly speaking, two visions of civil rights law emerged out of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), which together help explain our current circumstances.

A long thread, if interested: 1/ 2/ On the one hand, White progressives, along with the developing Black middle-class, centered their continued civil rights vision on the analytics of prejudice, discrimination, and segregation. That is, the social problem of racism was understood to be personal prejudice and

"It is also relevant to discuss the tendency of whites to read into [Derrick] Bell’s scholarship nonexistent continuities with traditional white figures. In this regard whites attempting to understand the works of Bell align him with what they take to be radical figures in the 1/ 2/ "Western tradition, like Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, and Jacques Derrida, instead of confront[ing] the racism inherent in assuming that it is only through white thinkers that Black thoughts can be understood or philosophical. To my claim that his work should be understood as a

The Bible doesn't mention race as it was constructed centuries later, and it likewise does not discuss racism as we know it. It just doesn't, no more and no less than it discusses colonial America, its founding, politics, political ideas, institutions, social philosophy, etc. 1/ 2/ Now, does that mean that the Bible has no applicable principles? Of course not!

The Bible explicitly condemns avarice, greed, exploitation, oppression, lust, lust for power, etc., all of which are the bases for the much later construction of race and racism.

The Bible

People always ask me, then what do we do about racism? Do you have any solutions, or just complaints?

Okay, here's a very small, off the top of my head, list of suggestions that is BY NO MEANS comprehensive:

1. Clarify by statute that "remove all badges and incidents of slavery" (Civil Rights Cases, 1883), as Congress was empowered to do by the 13th Amendment, means all substantive legacies, social, economic, and institutional.

2. Clarify by statute that the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause is about substantive equality, not neutral

What would happen if the concept "race" were supernaturally zapped out of every human mind? Would something like it be immediately constructed as a heuristic by social scientists to explain the vast statistical disparities in wealth, income, human geography, education, and 1/ 2/ overall material conditions? Would the new concept be better or worse? What would we do with our history? Could we understand it? Could we connect current outcomes to centuries of disparate formation and exploitation? What explanations would we be left with? Would material

This position is not at all new. For a helpful discussion of eliminativism, see this section in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It has been debated for 30+ years.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/#…

https://twitter.com/drantbradley/status/1527266940510736387

For a great presentation of the position of the position, see this 2012 piece:

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life amazon.com/dp/1844679942/…

Here's how the anti-CRT crowd sounds:

The Baptist movement was founded by Confederates & is defined by belief that,

1. Young children can't be Christians.

2. Alcohol, tobacco, playing cards, and watching movies are sinful.

3. The Earth is flat, the Sun travels around the 1/ 2/ Earth, and the Earth is 8,000 years old, because the Bible is inerrant.

"What? I'm Baptist, and that's just not true!"

Oh really? Well the SBC, the largest Baptist denomination, was founded by Confederates. And you won't baptize babies. Further, I can show you hundreds of

There seems to be an awful lot of confusion over the meaning of "White supremacy" and "White supremacist."

A thread:

"Supremacy" is primarily a relation, not a doctrine or belief. White supremacy, therefore, is an existential relation between the so-called "White race" 1/ 2/ (an historical construction) and all others (also constructions), not primarily a doctrine or belief. In fact, White supremacy, as an objective relation, existed as a feature of American legal, political, economic, and social life before the explicit doctrine of White