White Christians have more at stake than black Americans in racial repair

Evidence

What few whites perceive, and this is a truth that has come late to me, is that we have far more at stake than our black fellow citizens in setting things right. As Baldwin provocatively put it, the civil rights movement began when an oppressed and despised people began to wake up collectively to what had happened to them. The question today is whether we white Christians will also awaken to see what has happened to us, and to grasp once and for all how white supremacy has robbed us of our own heritage and of our ability to be in right relationships with our fellow citizens, with ourselves, and even with God. Reckoning with white supremacy, for us, is now an unavoidable moral choice. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 680

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the privileged party loses the most casts reparative justice in radically self-interested terms rather than altruistic ones.
• XREF: Pays off the author’s theme across chapters that white supremacy disfigures white identity and Christianity itself. — connects to: White supremacy survives individual whites’ deaths because it is institutional — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 640; White supremacy is economically and geopolitically self-harmful — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 668; White Christian nationalists sincerely believe whites and Christians are the most persecuted in America — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 48 (+1 more)