“White Blessing” and the Christianization of Enslaved Africans

“White Blessing” and the Christianization of Enslaved Africans 2020-06-17T08:50:41-04:00

As I noted yesterday, white evangelical megachurch pastor Louie Giglio recently proposed using the phrase “white blessing” as a replacement for the phrase “white privilege.” The goal, he said, was to switch up the terminology in order to reach white Americans upset at the term “white privilege.” The problem with this, I wrote, is that evangelicals—including Giglio—typically talk about blessings as things that are handed down by God, often as a reward for faithfulness. And this sets up all sorts of troubling implications.

But it’s also worth noting that evangelicals have already used the term “blessing” in another way when they talk about slavery.


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