Black evangelicals experienced Trump’s election as a betrayal by their own churches

Evidence

Finally, a feeling of dread settled over me as I reckoned with the fact that a blatant opponent of racial justice would soon occupy the highest political office in our nation. … How could I go to church that Sunday with people who so clearly misunderstood and perhaps even dismissed my reality as a Black person in America? How could I sing, pray, and exchange pleasantries with folks who seemed not to care what their favored politician’s plans would mean for me, my family, our community, and our country? — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Embodies the lived cost of the political cleavage the book analyzes; connects to personal writings on minority experience within majority institutions. — connects to: Anti-Trump evangelicals framed pro-Trump voting as self-betrayal; White evangelicals supported Trump because of their beliefs, not despite them. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 8

Broader Connections

• Anti-Trump evangelicals framed pro-Trump voting as self-betrayal #corroborates (0.85)
• White evangelicals supported Trump because of their beliefs, not despite them. #contradicts (0.75) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 8