We have chosen to launch the podcast on July 4th intentionally in order address the role of white Christian Supremacy in nationalism and to encourage people to think a little bit more deeply about this holiday and hypocrisy connected to the notions of freedom and liberation espoused to this country.
I'll work though some of the preliminary concepts of white Christian Supremacy , I’ll be unpacking why we chose to launch this podcast on July 4th and we’ll get to hear a little bit from Soulforce’s co-executive director, Rev. Alba Onofrio
Here are a few of my resource links:
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglas's speech read by a group of his descendants
https://www.treasury.gov/about/education/pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx
A bit about the history of how 'In God We Trust' made it onto our currency
The article by Robert P. Jones:
"Let's celebrate this Fourth of July without the myth of white Christian innocence"
And Soulforce's video "What is Christian Supremacy?"
Here is the episode transcript here.
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