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Breaking up with White Jesus - Coggle Diagram
Breaking up with White Jesus
James Baldwin
"In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand" (Baldwin 8)
"This world is white and they are black. White people hold the power, which means that they are superior to blacks (intrinsically, that is: God decreed it so)" (Baldwin 9).
If God is associated with safety, why would God make it where Blacks are despised
Projection that is the mirror of God only serves certain people, it's a way to alienate rather than free
God helps Baldwin feel safe and have a protector that's looking out for him and always be there for him
"And if His love was so great, and if He loved all His children, why were we, the blacks, cast down so far" (Baldwin 13)
destined by God to be subjected and cursed
If you return to Jesus, then you might get something/ability to project a God/divinity that is liberatory for everyone, however you can't do that if you're trapped in the projection of White Christ
"I was a descendant of Ham, who had been cursed, and that I was therefore predestined to be a salve" (Baldwin 16)
Ham's cursed and black people are the descendants of him
people who are interpreting the bible have the power and are WHITE
Exegesis: let the text speak to you
Eisegesis: make the text say and justify the world they already have --> WHITE SUPREMACY, finding reason to the story of Noah and Ham
Racism: prejudice + power, if you have power your interpretation of the bible is often swaying the public opinion
Descendants of Cain were white people, had that power and could use that power
"The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass, and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence" (Baldwin 12)
Andre Henry
BLM pulling back the veil on America, America insists that racism is no longer as a problem, presents racism as a "fluke" but in reality we had slavery, Jim crow laws, and the BLM pulled back a veil on this
Racism is part of the "internal organs" ever since the beginning
the passages that people use to justify the rapture, they take Jesus in comparison to what they think is justifying the rapture. If you compare it to the flood, it's not the faith that are taken away, it's the bad people that were taken away from the flood.
The breaking of black bodies is an essential part of the story of this nation's founding
systemic aspects of racism of US is part of the whole system here, it's not just a flesh wound
political structures we live in shape our private lives, those dynamics and structures shape the pathways in society we walk on; White people were trying to say that issues of race were not personally impacting Andre, or they were irrelevant to the exchanges they're having
often times larger social political dynamics play themselves out in our interpersonal relationships
boulder is a way to perform the weight of racism on black people in the US
White colonizers intentionally depicted Jesus as a white person, Jesus being depicted as White was a way of them saying that God is a sponsor/champion of the interest of white people, saying "God is one of us"; project of white supremacy is sanctioned by God. Andre had to wrestle what spirituality means and the role of that to the movement
Jesus dying on the cross --> fixing police brutality but it hasn't; being involved in the movement has been challenging; brought to the conclusion that white Jesus is the mascot of white supremacy, program for social control
"Maybe Christianity really is for white people because I heard so many black people say that growing up this is white man's religion" white people telling him that God just cares about the things that white people care about
The picture of one nation under God depicts people who deserves to be in the picture, however intentionally leaves out people as there is "no room" for them in the picture
Fayez Vuong