Race

Racial Identity or National Identity?

It’s evident from surveys or lived experience that most blacks see race as critical to their identity at levels not seen among their racial counterparts. According to a recent Pew Report, seventy-four percent of black adults said that being black…
Derryck Green
November 4, 2021
FaithPoliticsReligion

The Continued Shaming of Evangelicals

Christianity Today published a pre-election piece in which Timothy Dalrymple– also the president and CEO of the publication– explained the political divisions among white evangelicals concerning Donald Trump. The foundation of his analysis was the response to former editor Mark…
Derryck Green
November 17, 2020
PoliticsRaceReligion

White Americans: Racist, No Matter Identity?

Since the killing of George Floyd in May, the country has been held hostage with mostly scripted “conversations” about racism. Some unscripted conversations have been constructive; the predictable ones have not. Constructive conversations about racism acknowledge that though bigotry still…
Derryck Green
October 16, 2020
CultureFaithRaceReligion

Is “Antiracism” Christian? No

Is individualism an “American white value”? The fad of racializing everything, even long-standing virtues of individual merit, is further eroding our already-fragile civic ties. Critical race theorists like famous author Robin DiAngelo condense the complexity of our anthropology into a collectivized…
Derryck Green
October 16, 2020