{"id":288,"date":"2014-12-01T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/12\/black-on-black-violence-pastor-voddie-bauchams-assault-on-black-people.html"},"modified":"2015-04-29T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:52:27","slug":"black-on-black-violence-pastor-voddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/12\/black-on-black-violence-pastor-voddie.html","title":{"rendered":"Black-on-Black Violence: Pastor Voddie Baucham\u2019s Assault on Black People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As black evangelical leaders, we believe it is important to respond to The Gospel Coalition\u2019s publishing of Pastor Voddie Baucham\u2019s Thoughts on Ferguson<\/a>, a perspective we deem to be extremely anti-black. First, we condemn The Gospel Coalition\u2019s editorial leadership for its moral and pastoral failure in publishing such an anti-black viewpoint. No Christian organization should ever participate in dishonoring the image of God in black people, especially at a time when so many black Americans are in pain. Second, we lament the internalized anti-black racism that Pastor Voddie conveyed in his article and the fact that it has been used to further support White-on-Black violence among Christians. Here, we offer a different perspective, one that we believe honors the image of God in black people.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Brief History of White-on-Black Violence<\/b><\/p>\n

Racism is White-on-Black violence.<\/p>\n

In 1619, the first twenty Africans were brought over as labor for the new colonies. Within one generation the white majority had defined black people as permanent slaves and non-human property. This created a social order in which black people were only valuable for their ability to support a white dominated society that was economically prospering off of the stolen land of Native Americans and the stolen labor of African Americans. Consequently, a system of White-on-Black violence was born.<\/p>\n


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This system of White-on-Black violence has defined the last 400 years of American history. For example:<\/span>\n