Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, June 5, 2017
DISENTANGLING WHITE RACISM
DISENTANGLING WHITE RACISM IS EXCEEDINGLY COMPLEX BUT POSSIBLE
Monday, June 05, 2017
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
If white racism were the only cord to be disentangled, the task would not be so formidable; it would have been already done. But when one adds in other “cords,” like religion, history, science, mathematics, trade, philosophy, education, politics, literature, and law—all of which have been tinctured by race prejudice--the magnitude of the problem of all-pervasive white supremacy gains perspective.
These multifarious cords combine to form a considerable knot that has been added to, gradually, since 312 A.D., when Roman Emperor Constantine’s Council of Nicea, agglomerated all of the different Christian rituals and rubrics into just one. From there, over ensuing centuries, the perquisites of power have invaded every other arena of human endeavor and every other habitable land mass.
Racism came last. It yielded its own fruit: segregation, fascism, Nazism, apartheid.
Thus the disestablishment of white racism also requires detangling all the others. Disestablishing white racism and its tainted kindred disciplines and disciples will require the assiduous labors of many people of all kinds, everywhere, on every level, who are all committed to TRUTH, the cure to what ails us all.
Since white racism is the antithesis of TRUTH, lies must be tranformed; mouths rinsed, hearts and minds purified, with the love of TRUTH and of one’s fellow man. It can be done. What is coded by man can be decoded by man and woman.