White Too Long review: how race trumped American Christianity

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Just in time for the 2020 election, Jones is back with White Too Long. His timing is impeccable, as is his subtitle: “The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity”. The book’s draws its title from the biting words of James Baldwin: “They have been white … too long; they have been married to the lie of white supremacy too long.”

Once again the US is beset by racial strife. Its president worships a mythologized past and genuflects before statues of dead Confederate generals. This is what idolatry can look like.



In Trump’s words: “When people proudly have their Confederate flags, they’re not talking about racism.” Colin Kaepernick, by the president’s logic, should just shut up and be grateful and Nascar, the NCAA and SEC football all got it wrong when they ordered the Confederate battle flag removed from public spaces. Ditto Mississippi, which recently redesigned its state flag.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/25/white-too-long-review-race-trump-american-christianity
 
The United States stands at a crossroads once again, faced with its own terrible legacy of white supremacy. In White Too Long, Robert Jones captures the truth that the story of white Christianity in America is also the story of white supremacy in American. Drawing on personal experience, church history, non-partisan survey research, and building on the insights of others, Jones exhorts white Christians to be willing to engage in the difficult and uncomfortable work that is recognizing the true history of their religion and how it has been woven into the very political and social fabric of our country. The book focuses primarily on Southern evangelical Christianity, from the Confederacy through the modern era, but steadfastly refuses to allow any branch of white Christianity to deny their own part in the truth.
 
Confederate flags are about racism and are symbols, that they have not moved on. They say we have lost the war, but we still hate blacks.
 
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