Is God a White Racist

By: 
Carolyn R. Brown
Year: 
2008
Volumn: 
40
Number: 
1

 

Humanocentric theism “provides a consistent framework for accommodating the freedom of [humanity], an indispensable ingredient of a theology of liberation.”  It traces the cause of racism to human forces. It removes a theological and moral escape often used by the white oppressor.  “He can no longer point to anything but [humans] as the sustaining force behind racism.”   The implications of this are far reaching in that they put the responsibility on both blacks and whites to recognize our potential to create freedom and transform power, which might actually end oppression.