Part 4: Inspecting The Wall

Toward A Recapitulation of Faith and Faithfulness Amongst Black Students in Racialized American Society.

The Task Before Us

My mentor, the late James Baldwin, said it best.

“To be Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time”.^[12]

The daily experiences of micro-aggression, micro-invalidations, and microinsults send messages to Black Americans that go beyond character judgments. These experiences have an ontological impact.

The treatment and subconscious assumptions about Blackness over centuries of overt and covert racism have permeated much of the church. White evangelicals have consistently taken a posture of color blindness and indifference in the face of global outcries against police brutality and the rise of white nationalism.

Due largely to the overwhelming support of Donald Trump by evangelicals during the 2016 U.S. Election, the Barna Group conducted a study called Black Lives Matter and Racial Tension in America. The research showed that the church is a large part of the problem with conciliation efforts in our country.

According to…