One aspect of ministry that I talk to predominantly White churches and pastors about is the idea that the work I do is not for my liberation alone or even for Black bodies alone. My White colleagues, White pastors, White preachers, and White friends must fight for their liberation from the chains of their Whiteness. Identity as White is a constructed experience. Being White has denial and amnesia embedded in it. When immigrants entered the United States, we must remember that whole people groups became “whitened” as a way to distinguish their fates from that of Native Americans and Black
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