White Too Long (video)

Posted on January 14, 2025 by PLT Staff

On December 3, 2024, Robert P. Jones joined the UVA graduate seminar Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation by Zoom to talk about his research on the theological and historical sources of white supremacy in the United States.

Excerpt: “There are no two groups in the country who vote more differently than White Evangelical Protestants on the one hand and African American Protestants on the other. If you sort religious groups in the American religious landscape, they are always on the opposite poles…. So what’s going on there? This ought to be something, I think particularly White Christians, given their history, take pretty seriously. If we have been wrong on slavery, wrong on segregation, should this give us pause? That we are voting in exactly the opposite way of our African American Christian brothers and sisters?”

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  • Date Recorded:December 3, 2024
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