Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity

by Miguel A. de la Torre

Historically, white Euro-Americans have shed the blood of darker bodies so they might have life and have it more abundantly. The marginalized are offered up as living sacrifices to the God of white Christianity. Quite frankly, the rise of the United States had less to do with God’s favor or the superior intellect of white people than the fact that the United States’ wealth, global power, and place in the world as the greatest empire ever known, are due to those who have been crucified in her name. America’s greatness would never have risen to its present level if not for the stolen land of indigenous people, the free slave labor of black bodies, and the twentieth-century invasions into countries of Latinxs’ origins to steal their land, their raw materials, and their cheap labor. America was made great through the exploitation and subjugation of those who fell short of the white ideal, an exploitation and subjugation masked as God’s favor toward God’s new chosen people.