Spotlight: White Evangelical Racism with Dr. Anthea Butler
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- In this episode of the Spotlight on Culture, Society, and Religion series, Dr. Anthea Butler of the University of Pennsylvania talks about her recent book, White Evangelical Racism, which narrates the history of evangelicalism from the nineteenth century to the present through the lens of racism and a politics of morality. According to Dr. Butler, once we understand how racism has been at the core of conservative evangelical activism, we can better understand why white evangelicals have laid claim to morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian standards.
About the Expert
Dr. Anthea Butler is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Butler’s research and writing spans African African American religion and history, race, politics, evangelicalism, gender and sexuality, media, and popular culture. You can find more of her writing and public engagement at www.antheabutler.com.
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Before watching the video, when you heard the words “evangelical” and “evangelicalism,” what words, images, or ideas came to mind?
What is something in the video that surprised you? Why was it surprising?
When the evangelical leader Billy Graham was asked to comment on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963, he responded, “Only when Christ comes again will little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.” What do you think Graham meant by this response? What was he trying to persuade people to think or do? How might Butler see racism at work in these words?
According to the Black evangelist Tom Skinner, “The evangelical church in America supported the status quo. It supported slavery. It supported segregation.” Why do you think so many white evangelicals supported slavery, segregation and other forms of racism? Are there any social values or theological beliefs common among white evangelicals that may have fueled the rise of white evangelical racism? Which social values or theological beliefs did Butler mention or allude to in the video?
Additional Resources
Chrissy Stroop, “I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, but to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview with the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism,’” Religion Dispatches, March 10, 2021.
Podcast: “Understanding the Causes and Consequences of White Evangelical Fear,” WBUR On Point, November 19, 2021.
Lauren R. Kerby. “The Dispossessed? Lived History and White Christian Nationalism.” Berkeley Forum, February 3, 2021.
See the original interview here:
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Some pretty powerful imagery. It's interesting to see the same arguments against desegregation come back in the CRT discussions.
That's just a lie. Crt is a class taught in college it's a college course. Crt in society does not exist it's people and liars like u that push the bullshit. Teaching that columbus discovered America is crt tho.
What is critical race Theory according to your understanding
Where did you learn about CRT? On the John Birch Society website?
When I suggest that someone attend church my advice is to lower your expectations of the people or you will be disappointed, focus your expectation on what Jesus can do for you personally and you will be blessed.
@Blue Fox I try not to belittle anyone's beliefs or pressure them to accept mine. As the same shoe doesn't fit everyone, neither does the same religion. God gave everyone the freedom to choose. It's a personal decision because it has eternal consequences at the end of one's days. I have some knowledge of other religions. Personally I choose Christianity. It provides me with the hope and guidance that sustains me.
And to find out what you can do for Christ and building God's kingdom
@@Lees212 Amen. 🙏
@@warrinbang1191you don't have to convict or pressure that's the holy spirits job
that !!! Ty 🙏
There is no hate like evangelical Christian love
Wow, that’s a great saying!😬
God is love. God is not the problem. Human beings are another issue...
@@gl6996 so sky daddy isn't telling them to hate everyone making every thing a sin
@@dwightmann6297 It's obvious you don't believe in God. Christians aren't perfect people, but Jesus Christ was.
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God only know what goes on in White Churches on any given Sunday.
Sounds like a little Racism in your comment.
Caucasians inject racist into every institution..
@JJ KJV MATTHEW 15 24!!!
Evangelical equals evilangel(Satan),that is who.these people really worship.
God left that place a long time ago. They worship the fallen jesus, who came to earth to make them rich, promoted slavery and invented racism in order to justify it.
Evangelicalism has spread to and through Africa in a huge way - one more destructive import into the continent IMO. Would love to see analysis and comments on this .
That I will never understand. It's like they want to be controlled by their enemy.
@@rasheedjamal9091 At first glance - a paradox. But read in the light of post-colony - not so strange, First Africa was raped by the west in the Atlantic Slave Trade, then in "the Scramble for Africa", then in the proxy conflicts of the cold war. In each case she became the dumping ground of the detritus-ideologies (and cruelties) of the west - always btw argued as a very good thing for Africa. (Read: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Masks.). Unscrupulous missionaries and pentecostal evangelists have lit a bush fire in Africa - from the con-artist Alexander Dowie 's zionist christianity through to the con-artist prosperity teachers of today. The self-centred, self-seeking capitalist Prosperity/Health and Wealth doctrine is the very inverse of African 'Ubuntu' which puts community at the heart of society. Africa is still captive to the shitty, shiny glass beads of the west...
@@scottharrison812 I cry for my people.
Nigerian here, I'm EXHAUSTED!
It's taken over completely and aggressively.
@@mimao.5150 Christianity was forced on us in America, I know they aren't being forced in Africa are they?
I never trust a Devil with a Bible in hand!!!!!
Never trust a devil period. The Bible is the true word of God.
Why don’t we see that love & good fellowship are the delights of heaven, while hostility & hatred are the torments of hell?
This is very insightful. Thank you. I briefly attend a Christian Evangelical college.
JUST ordered this book. Been talking about this for a long time.
Change starts on the inside of each person first, can't have change in people in different groups without change of each person first.
So true
@Cameron Vinson Now THAT'S why I DON'T expect any meaningful, substantive change in race relations while we are still on THIS earth. In order to truly love and respect other people, especially other people who are DIFFERENT from you in race, culture, gender, etc., you have to have a GENUINELY CONVERTED HEART experience. Most people, even those who name Jesus as their Lord and Savior don't actually go through this experience. WE won't experience our new natures until we get to Heaven, so I don't FRET about white evangelical "Christians" and other false prophets.
God tells us to tithe for the up keep of the church. God keeps us going. Can't we help keep the church going. The lights don't pay for themselves.
In principle yes: but waiting for people to change has never significantly achieved justice - how long would we have waited for an end to Jim Crow Laws or the end of Apartheid if we waited for a change of heart?
The type of change oppressed people need starts with laws and policies run by our governments. We cannot wait for “individuals” to change before we receive the rights we deserve.
Generalization and pigeonholing are always ill advised
I’m so over BK folks reaching out for YT validation, it’s not even funny at this point it’s embarrassing! If they don’t like us keep it moving, who cares!!!
Sis, I AGREE!!
The church is not perfect but he will perfect her for himself
My question is...if religion has not purged the antiblackness out of people,(after centuries of Sundays)
Why is there a belief, that religion can purge the gayness out of people?
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I tell you one thing, Heaven is not going to be segregated!
Great stuff
People are plain stupid for sitting in Church week after week and loading the collection plate anyway. You can worship God for FREE at home from your favorite chair.
And never miss a football game 😃 🍺
I always stole outta the collection plate lmfao 🤣
The problem is the scripture commands them to both attend church and give up 10% of their income. When I was religious I did a lot of things against my interests simply because the Bible told me to and I did not question it for years
@@bnakashima8601 you believe what you want. I don't attend any church or listen to any ministers. I don't read the Bible and I spend that 10% on my family. I have never been happier. Peace.
People don't want to accept the truth because they have been programmed by the church system. There is no way a pastor can have a private jet, own mansions and get luxury vehicles without suckered giving up 10% of their income. ONE fool makes many.
Usually, when you create a hypothesis, this is followed up with research , experimentation , or facts. Not pictures with lead lines. The damage of racism is that the truth can and will infect all in comes in contact with. That is what lies do. Yes, the scripture holds the individual accountable. Hold yourself accountable, and pull that beam from your eye and see clearly. You may then create a hypothesis with an accurate conclusion.
Wow! Are you one of them?!
@@friendshiplove7316 If you mean a child of God commanded to love his brother and sister, something I often find difficult. If you mean a person directed to use discernment when listening to information, something I am often not patient enough to do. I you mean a man who dialogues with a person to determine what they think and why, while trying to put my preconcieved notions in check. If you mean that person who tries to use reason, facts, and evidence when speaking of others motives because I have experience the pre judgement of other. Then yes, I hope that I am or can become one of them. In truth I am just a flawed human being trying to be decent.
Lol, this is a video summary of her work. If you were truly honest about understanding her hypothesis and research, you'd buy and read her book and critique it the ideas there rather than critique a short form video, whose purpose is to tell you about the book. 🙄
@@mary_puffin Seriously? Why would anyone spend money on this? What is the hypothesis? Republicans are racist? Evangelicals are racist because they tend to vote Republican? Billy Graham is pictured with Eisenhower so he is racist or is Eisenhower racist or are both racist or is it just a picture with an inaccurate and lying narrative. Sorry, I have plenty of experience with Race Hustlers with self-serving agenda-driven crap. Finally, IT IS NOT my obligation to purchase her nonsense. IT IS her responsibility to present a rational reason for me to consider it. She failed. This is just a bad commercial that slanders a group of persons, alive and dead, without a factual basis. When King wrote the letter from the Birmingham jail, it was to Democrats. I would never conclude that all or some Democrats were racist. That would be inaccurate. Margret Sanger is pictured wth Klans men. I would not conclude that Hillary Clinton is a racist because she considers Sanger her personal hero, would you? Well, ...would you? She insults her audience and that is inexcusable....but typical.
...if you do not speak through, then you will confuse people to what your trying to convey..imply state that the majority evangelicals are Caycasians/alike racist/classists..deguising there racism/classism under the banner of religious banter ideologies...
What this video explains to me are a couple of things one I've always known whiteness is more important than any Jesus any God any country any family whiteness will always come 1st The 2nd thing I got from this video is that people are still hung up on titles which is absolutely ridiculous to me just because you claim to be some sort of Christian does it mean you can't support racism knowingly these people voted for Donald Trump Donald Trump is the opposite of any Christian values which tells me to these people whiteness is more important because the one thing Donald Trump is willing to do is protect whiteness so no matter if you're a Christian or whatever else whiteness will always come 1st over all... European evangelicals are just racist with a Bible instead of a hood
What "racist" policy did Trump execute? None. Instead he signed permanent finding for the HBCU'S...which should go against the "racist" criteria or grain. Second, he reached out with Kanye and Kim Kardashian on prison reform which help mainly blacks who were sentenced unjustly by length of time for some infractions. Third, he along with you all's favorite to call an "Uncle Tom", Senator Tim Scott and created Opportunity Zones so that Black's could take part in the investment in our own communities. Fourth, he was going to do the Platinum Plan for more black investment opportunities via proposed fundings. Ask Joe Biden about each one of the above. Oh...I forgot...he can't give Trump too credit. ENJOY
Absolutely Truth + Wisdom = Peace ✌ 🙏 🙌 👏.
they go to church, like they to town hall meeting, *NOT* to hear & learn about the love of Jesus. but *TO* hear & learn about the hate of ppl...
Ethnocentrism is of the flesh. Literally. If your for God be for God not churches of men.
It looks like the host has all-black eyes cuz I can’t see the scleras at all. Looks really cool!
The American Taliban
I need to get this book
Racist k..kkristains? Say it ain't so.
Because out of their own mouth, they claim that they love me.
I'm confused 🤨🤨
As a BLK man can't say what I want to
They’re are not patriots
Skin of bronze and hair of wool…
It funny how a blk church might have 1 or two Caucasian and 1 of those might be relansationship but we flock to the congregations why motivationalspeech swip credit card n be seen on tv.,?
What does that even mean??! It’s incoherent!
this is ATHEIST PROPAGANDA...
She just said a whole lot of nothing in order to sell a book and continue to sow confusion and unnecessary divisions. And the reason why I said "unnecessary divisions" is because we are people who make up our own minds once confronted with the REAL truth and then separate ourselves from what's detrimental. The broad brushing of evangelism as a racial construct is ridiculous. Yes there were and are racial injustices happening such as with Bob Jones University etc, but to view all white evangelism under the same scope is narrow minded and wrong. She mentioned Focus On The Family which is a sound and good platform for conveying honest biblical Christian/church view on all topics in life. To lump white evangelicals who supported former president Trump as part of a "racist white evangelical" movement is absurd. Blacks supported Trump because he had a common sense approach with policy both economically, and in the best interest of the country as a whole. Free market principles that works for anyone who applies them. Not complicated. What this book is all about, is simply a reach to distort and continue to race bait for the political convenience of the Democratic party, of which a lot more blacks are finally waking up and asking the question.. "What have you all actually done to lift blacks out of the status of lacking and being behind... Even after the first black president Obama?". But here is the simple solution: Stop voting against our interests such as with abortion which keeps us in the minority populous as was intended by Planned Parenthood over 60 years ago. Two famous black leaders... Dr. King and supreme court justice Thurgood Marshall was bamboozled by the likes of Planned Parenthood who sought out to eliminate the problem of overpopulation, and therefore target us by offering supposedly "access to better birth control measures" aka abortions for the lower income mother who couldn't afford a child/children economically. The REAL books are written about this. It's a new day now...WOKE!! PEACE and GOD BLESS
Ok Tom. You lost credibility by announcing you are a Trumphead.
I know; that whole long statement and he still sounds clueless...is we sick massa...🤡
And the only reply you all have is the typical Democratic party mantra of calling a brother or sister who don't walk that party line a "Tom" or "Coon" is tired. This independent black man here calls balls and strikes. Unlike you who are the plantation sell outs. And have the audacity to call yourselves "WOKE". Don't fool yourselves... Self loyalty is missing. "Sight trained and yet so blind. Stagnant truth in the beholders eyes.." Wake Up!!
Nice points but your association with a party which has shown directly and indirectly that they have only the best interests of white Anglo saxons in mind sort of defeats your purpose. None of these parties are going to do anything to improve the living conditions of black American communities .
@@bidainthegrass7317 And your point being the latter sentence of which I agree, with the exception of making it plain and simple. In that, both political party utilizes..as we all, free market principle in advancing our livelihood. Everyone makes a dollar unrestrained. Representation of ideas are allowed, and the right to accept or reject ideas comes according to whether someone thinks the ideas are assets to all or liabilities waiting to happen. Such as what we're all experiencing under a clueless old political figure like Joe Biden. But all too often the villain is by narrative, such as the supposed "White evangelical" and as I said the willfully ignorance in broad brushing all as culprits. I'm 65 year old and experience the era of segregation and desegregation as well as fighting against racist elements here in Charleston SC years ago. The Dylan Roof tragedy is a typically misguided assumption as to how it is in the south. Blacks and whites live, work and play together here. There will always be evil in every ethnicity or culture. Political party sentiment comes with a caution as to trust but verify actions. Legislation and policy is what we all should take notice of and not the hype of political promises. Sad to say, the Democratic party mantra of promises comes with a fringe concept of governmental dependencies in guise of "Taxing the wealthy or the One percent"..class envy. Instead of making it possible for the free market principle by participated people to prosper through self achievement. Look at all of the rappers, athletes who have and are realizing wealth through capitalism. Anyone with a PLAN can achieve anything. Not complicated
Enough with this BS. It's a power play plain and simple. You can grovel and beg, that's what they want forever
SHAME ON AMERIKKKA
Black have their own churches but it's not racist lol Glad to be gone from all these hypocritical churches including black and white churches. I now attend non denominational with mixed members.
They have racism too it's hidden behind non denomination. If America has racism then going to church with whites are no different then going to work with them that are racist.
@@jabulani22shepo61 There is blacks that are racist but that doesn't mean everybody is racist.
@@davescott686 - Sorry to bust your bubble but in America, it's impossible for "blacks" to be racist.
Blacks have their own churches because to state it mildly, blacks were not welcome in white churches. White churches is where whites have their racism justified and reinforced. Even the SBC was created to defend slavery.
@@nialcc Get into the real world now. These so-called black churches and white churches are going away as the old people die off. Don't believe me do some research. And speaking of southern baptist churches they're also dying along with the black churches. Non-denominational are the fastest growing churches.
If you’re going to make a video like this you need to make the other side. There’s been a lot of good men with a heart for Africa that is evangelized in Africa. They love the African people and they have been called by God to go there. Thank God I’m not called to go there because that would be a hard job. These people have to live a totally different life than what they’re used to. I know some groups there right now it’s doing a great job in Africa.
Doing a great job? By doing what exactly? Are they increasing economic independence in the African countries? Or heading to another continent to increase numbers since they're dropping significantly here in the U.S.?
If Africans decide to follow the Christian faith it is not because a pastor or an evangelist from the west came to Africa , we have enough people who can do that calling here , in fact i think in the near future African men and women of GOD will come to western world to preach the WORD.
Yes they help to keep Africa broke and a minimalist way of thinking . Pie in the sky .
Great point that is willfully ignored. They need a villain...even at the expense of broad brushing and lumping all white evangelicals in the same narrative. Ridiculous
They might love the land ,but stymied the hell out of the people.
Stop
Trump cult
What the hell is she even talking about?
THE USE OF BIBICAL SCRIPTURES TO JUSTIFY RACIST BEHAVIORS AND VIEWS FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS THAT IS STILL BEING USED.
THE USE OF BIBICAL SCRIPTURES TO JUSTIFY RACIST BEHAVIORS AND VIEWS FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS THAT IS STILL BEING USED.
Kind of a joke
From my experience being a Jesus Freak most evangelical churches are very mixed with a lots of colorful faces and personality.🥳
ARE.BLACK PEOPLE CAPABLE OF WRITTING A BOOK THAT DOESNT TALK ABOUT RACISM
Seemingly only if they have the last name of Sowell. Question for black churches- how many of your members voted for Obama simply because he was black?
The fact that it bothers you is exactly why we should keep doing it
@@_method_5877 no surprise here. I'm sure you will keep right on the same track.
@@_method_5877 as an addendum I do have more question. Once whites become a demographic minority in the US (say by 2040) who are you then going to blame for continued under performance? Asians and Latins will not have the same 'white guilt' feelings that have been exploited over the past 50 years or so.
@@elindioedwards7041 Blame? The real question you should be asking is will the US even be around by 2040?
Is she going to do a lecture about racism, in the Black Church too? Oops, my mistake, only Caucasians can be racist.
You're actually correct only whts can be and have been racist .they've been that way towards many many different races .no other race has behaved that way
@@bynew1919 Sure they haven't wise one.
How about you learning what the definition of what racism is first and which group pretty much has the monopoly on practising it. Remember Dylann Roof, he was warmly welcomed into a black church and, how did he repay the worshippers there for their warm welcome. Oh I must not forget the ones before who were killed in their church whilst worshipping e.g . Four black children killed by bomb placed in their church September 15th 1963 in Alabama. I suggest you read books that you may learn some truth from not the lies many are fed.
Hmm maybe because black churches don’t teach that there are no blacks in heaven or that blacks become white in heaven ? Yes blacks can be racist but they are not backed by their governments and communities in harassing people of the wrong color !!!
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Glad your Caucasian back side agrees