Save yourselves! Run from the latest menace unleashed by the Marxist forces of wokeness to indoctrinate our children, replace our democracy and threaten our cherished American values! Critical Race Theory is right around the corner! If we don’t immediately cancel and ban it, it will soon take over the country and transform our innocent, naive youth into anti-American socialists who reject the gospel of capitalism, believe structural racism.
Andrew L. Whitehead, associate professor of sociology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and co-author of
Taking Back America for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States, discusses the proliferation of Christian nationalism and its influence on American politics.
FASKIANOS: Thank you, Julissa. Good afternoon to everyone. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Religion and Foreign Policy webinar series. I m Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach at CFR. As a reminder, today s webinar is on the record, and the audio, video, and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel,
My Turn: A syllabus for the sponsors of ‘divisive concepts’ legislation
Published: 2/24/2021 10:41:57 AM
An open letter to Reps. Jason Osborne, Keith Ammon, and Glenn Cordelli, sponsors of House Bill 544, a bill that addresses the propagation of so-called “divisive concepts”: Having read HB 544, a bill relative to the “propagation of divisive concepts,” and having compared it to a September 2020 presidential executive order, I was struck by the repetition of ideas in both documents that are simply inaccurate and, sadly, fly in the face of contemporary history.
Solid research has demonstrated that, though we have made appreciable progress toward a racially just society, much structural, institutional racism remains and it will not simply disappear of its own accord. It is simply too integral and too invisibly ingrained in our society for reasonable people to expect that to happen.
By Caralee Adams |
February 8, 2021
Robert Jones’ book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Simon & Schuster, July 2020) is a call for white Christian churches to confront their racist pasts and take action toward reconciliation. A white Southern Baptist who grew up in Mississippi, Jones is CEO and founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute, which has tracked public opinion surveys that show holding racist views is associated with white Christian identity. “It’s very unsettling,” says Jones, who lives in Takoma Park. “White Christians need to talk about repair, restitution and justice. After this much damage has been done, it’s not about just saying you’re sorry and trying to move on. The real question is: ‘How can I repair the damage?’