“For a Herschel Walker Win, Georgia’s Evangelicals Are Willing To Sell Their Souls…” — Anthea Butler
Christian white supremacy
There is seemingly unconditional support for Herschel Walker by major segments of the white evangelical community in America.
Of note, Tony Perkins endorsed Walker through his PAC, the Family Research Council PAC. Pastor Anthony George, another well known and popular evangelical leader (in Georgia) also endorsed Walker.
Both men, and many other white religious leaders, endorsed a former football star over an actual minister of the gospel, Rev. Raphael Warnock. Warnock is no small person in Christian world of America either. He is the Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, the place where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. got his start.
But why did this or is this possible. The only answer is white supremacy.
White evangelicalism = White supremacy
There is nothing new about white evangelical support for hypocrisy in order to maintain a certain agenda rooted in white supremacy. Evangelicals always support the most conservative candidate and the one least likely to rock the boat of white supremacy in America.
In 1980, Jimmy Carter was running against Ronald Reagan for President. Jimmy Carter it was well known is an Evangelical. Born again Christian. He regularly attended church. He taught Sunday school. He tried to conduct himself from a moral standpoint as President putting the emphasis on human rights, as best he could.
Yet, the Evangelicals opted for Reagan in 1980 and Reagan won the election. This was the beginning of a pattern.
Evangelicals always support the candidate who is more the white supremacist. Jimmy Carter was flawed but he was pro-civil rights and human rights. Reagan began his campaign in KKK country. Ronald Reagan’s pedigree was anti-civil rights and anti-racial equality.
Abortion Contortions
Rev. Raphael Warnock, Walker’s opponent is in favor of choice. This is a moral choice. The right for women to have control of their bodies is a moral choice and decision.
Walker is opposed to choice. He is for the oppression of women. He is anti-human rights. He is an immoral candidate who wants to force any woman to have a child they do not want.
Walker has also paid for an abortion which suggests he is only for this rule for everyone else, not himself. It also strongly suggests that he is a tool of the white evangelical white supremacist agenda.
He has also threatened and beaten a woman. He has threatened his own family with death according to his son, Christian who calls his father’s life, “a lie.”
Yet, because he is for the oppression of women, something that sounds anti-God to me, Evangelicals support him. Because he is okay with a white supremacist agenda (what is he actually for, I keep wondering), he has strong support.
This is madness, as the Last Poets once said.
White supremacy as religion
The Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas has said often that Christianity and whiteness were always one thing, one idea. By spreading the religion, white supremacy would spread. Walker is the key to holding onto that ideal. Here’s more of what Douglas has written about this:
The election of Ronald Reagan is tied to this ideal. The election of the 45th President is also part of this ideal. Douglas wrote that in their support of the 45th President, “much of white Christian America opted to support a white supremacist vision for the country.” And white evangelicals, most of all, “made clear what they value above all else.”
Anything for white supremacy
To maintain white supremacy in America almost anything goes. If Walker is elected over Rev. Warnock, this is what this will mean.
Walker is not qualified to be a U.S. Senator. Walker is not qualified probably to hold any elected office. He is only the nominee because he is Black and completely supports the extreme white supremacist agenda of the MAGA segment of the Republican Party.
The strategy is, clip off enough African American voters to eke out a victory over a so called liberal Democrat who is opposed to a white supremacist agenda in the U.S. Walker is just there to stop Warnock.
Anthea Butler, writing for MSNBC, gets the last word on Walker and the evangelical white supremacist agenda:
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This post was previously published on Cultured.
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