Ken Wilson
1 min readJan 28, 2020

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Ryan Burge A stunning analysis. Would it be accurate to conclude that “whiteness” (meaning a collusion with white supremacy) that is not challenged by a Christian church affiliation, is what undergirds Trump’s support among the religiously affiliated?I believe the Pew survey of the 2016 vote indicated that a slim majority of mainline Protestants (the only sector of Christianity dominated by white people that can be described as having a significant “progressive” stream) even supported Trump. So the only religiously supported resistance to Trumpism [resistance that is measured by majority non-support for Trump in a religious affiliation sector] is from non-whites. If so, this analysis supports what so many African American Christians know in their bones — that there is a white Jesus and black Jesus, as James Cone has said.

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Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson

Written by Ken Wilson

Co-Author with Emily Swan of Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance, and co-pastor of Blue Ocean Faith, Ann Arbor, a progressive, inclusive church (a2blue.org).

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