Michael O Emerson

Mm.

So when, when you use terms like white evangelical Christian, um, can you just like help unpack like, like what that really means? Um, and, and I think this is important to, to at least just, you know, define because, you know, if you've read like Michael Emerson's book, like The Religion of Whiteness, right? There, there is sort of this like hair on the back of your neck that stands up whenever you say the word white.

So, so yeah.

He- help us, help us better understand that.

But if you just tell the truth about the thing so that she can get some type of closure and we can get some semblance of justice, which this country does have a history of, what is considered in my book, ritualistic sacrifice.

to what Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II describe as the religion of whiteness, that African-American people are demonized, are recreated as the other, as evil, even though they are the victimized, so that whiteness, the social construction that did not exist before 1680, my friends, did not exist until after Bacon's Rebellion and is used to enforce a racial capitalism.

It is important that we... that we understand that this ritualistic sacrifice requires this other in order to keep whiteness holy and pure and right.

And it's a high price to pay.