Love this. Thank you Rosalind Mays Welch for sharing this video. Brings back memories of divinity school and seminary. When I challenged Intro to Critical Theology professor saying he was presenting an epistemologically white supremacist god to us, several white students (progressive liberals from schools like Berkeley, Brown, Northwestern, Princeton, Haverford, University of Chicago and Yale--All I can remember right now) drawled out like parrots on perches, Im not comfortable with what Don just said. Of course they didnt bother to argue with me, attempt to refute my assertion, or have anything like an intelligent debate. So much for the free exchange of ideas in liberal divinity houses. Who argues with anything a less-than-human has to say? At best hes an affirmative action a...hole? or I cant deal with his anger. I thought, Oh you have not had to deal with my anger yet. Professor P. in-step with his white student groupies and one immigrant wannabe also responded to me, Im not comfortable with it either. My response to him and them, Im not paying all this money to for you to be comfortable. You will leave this room comfortable because your pseudo-intellectual professor has attempted to dismiss and negate me on your behalf, but whether you agree with me or not, I can never be comfortable here on the campus of the University of Chicago, in my seminary apartment, or just walking the f...ing streets of Hyde Park, so the hell with your discomfort. Furthermore, I did not walk out. I was not free to, because even though I already had a substantial Christian education, the Black American Africans I was being sent to pastor in a predominantly white denomination, had already been brainwashed to believe that what I was getting at this school made me credible in their eyes as a future pastor. In fact what really frustrated me the most was that the Black American Africans I would be serving (in ALL of the Methodist and Reformed traditions-Black and White-where I could serve according to my faith perspective), had long ago been culturally and socially conditioned to believe that white theologians, quoting the same German, Eastern European and French theologians, men (and women--thank you Quentin Tarantinos Django Unchained) who passively watched the holocaust and in some cases were a part of the Third Reich, could teach their potential pastors anything about God. This is systemic white supremacy, that Black American Africans believe in and validate the institutions that have profited from their oppression. In my recall, most of the professors were not even people of faith, but merely academics who had turned God into a factitious and fictitious pseudo-science, passing as academic discipline. Yes. This was My Struggle. Not much different from Ferguson, MO.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:02:40 +0000
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