Contemporary white Christian coherence depends on unacknowledged racist history.

Evidence

This book illustrates the way in which the coherence of contemporary white Christian beliefs and practices are dependent on this unacknowledged African American presence. It documents the disfiguring and intransigent legacy that a centuries-long commitment to white supremacy has created within white Christianity and calls for an honest accounting of and reckoning with a complicated, painful, and even shameful past. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 78

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Christian theology adapted to changing times only by shifting to subtler racism — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 234; White Christians must abandon claims of racial and theological innocence to confront their past — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 233; White Christianity’s present racism is the predictable product of its history — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 549 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• White Christianity’s present racism is the predictable product of its history #corroborates (0.85) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 549
• Racism was integral but rendered invisible in the Christian Right’s origins #corroborates (0.80) — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 533
• White churches historically functioned as agents upholding racist social structures #expands (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1055