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Mercer University associate professor at Atlanta campus draws criticism after recent book
Chanequa Walker-Barnes says her prayer seeks spiritual guidance to stop caring about white people who she says inevitably perpetuate racism. Author: Bre onna Richardson (WMAZ) Published: 8:04 PM EDT April 20, 2021 Updated: 8:05 PM EDT April 20, 2021
Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a Mercer University associate professor of practical theology at the school s Atlanta campus. Barnes is drawing criticism online for a controversial commentary on race published in a book.
Her prayer featured in the book was released in February, but people are still talking about it.
The book is titled
A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal. It features her prayer which says, Dear God, Please help me to hate White people.
By Dr. Jerry Newcombe | April 15, 2021 | 4:37pm EDT
Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, author of “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman,” gives a speech. (Photo credit: YouTube/TheoEd Talks)
While America has unquestionably had deep racial problems and an agonizing history of oppressing black people through slavery, Jim Crow, and other outrages, it seems that there are some among us who do not ever want to see the problems solved – or to admit progress in any form. There are those who make enormous profits, both monetarily and socially, by perpetuating the friction caused by America’s racist past, in contrast to Martin Luther King Jr.’s hope of a color-blind society.