The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
How can we meaningfully respond to being beneficiaries of a crime so plain it cannot be denied and so large it can never be fully righted?
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
While we are endlessly creative in fashioning novel ways to kill, dispossess, and defraud others, we are hopelessly unimaginative in our efforts to balance the scales of justice. Greed spawns a million schemes, while repentance throws up its hands.
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
The “doctrine of discovery” is not part of the teaching of the Catholic Church. Historical research clearly demonstrates that the papal documents in question, written in a specific historical period and linked to political questions, have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith. At the same time, the Church acknowledges that these p
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Today I am here, in this land that, along with its ancient memories, preserves the scars of still open wounds. I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry. Sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizin
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Authentic healing flows from, and true repentance is built on, the twin pillars of truth-telling and repair.
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
The question of reparations for these massive, multigenerational losses remains unanswered.
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing.”
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
Notably, there is no record that any Lutheran minister, representing the city’s largest Protestant denomination—or any other Protestant minister—tried to stop the lynchings.
Robert P. Jones • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy
The Doctrine of Discovery was formally incorporated into US law in 1823 in Johnson v. M’Intosh, which held, by unanimous decision, that “discovery gave [the US government] an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy, either by purchase or conquest.”