The religion of white supremacy still crucifies Blackness
Priscilla Shirer, an actress, speaker, and the daughter of the megachurch pastor Dr. Tony Evans, told a white audience she doesn’t describe herself as a Black woman, and her words are a condemnable example of how white Christianity irreverently crucifies Blackness.
Shirer said our adjectives describe our nouns, and to call herself a Black woman gives her Blackness too much power. Instead, Shirer describes herself as a Christian woman to sidestep the aisle that merges with racial identity.
White evangelicals praised her hellish comments as good news, but from Black people, her comments sparked the most righteous hail of criticism.
In the aftermath of a rebuking flood, for which she had no savior or ark, Shirer has apologized and reaffirmed her proud status as a Black woman.
But still, she said it; the mouth speaks from the heart. Shirer recited the chapter and verse in the gospel of white Christianity that faithfully seeks to make Blackness as white as snow.
History is gory and gross with the devilish ways white Christianity decimated cultures with its wrongheaded efforts to make people in its image.
