Cortnee Kelly

“People identifying as white evangelicals, regardless of their personal religiosity, “rallied around Trump to defend a white Protestant nation,” Dowland writes. “They have proven to be loyal foot soldiers in the battle against undocumented immigrants and Muslims. The triumph of gay rights, the persistence of legal abortion, and the election of Barack Obama signaled to them a need to fight for the America they once knew.” —”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“What most distinguishes white American evangelicals from other Christians, other religious groups, and nonbelievers is not theology but politics,” writes Seth Dowland, associate professor of religion at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right. “Over the course of the 20th century, the evangelical coalition entwined theology, whiteness, and conservative politics…. To identify as evangelical in the early 21st century signals commitments to gun rights, the abolition of legal abortion, and low taxes.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“In other words, while Black Americans were being systematically, generationally deprived of the ability to build wealth, and while some of them were also being robbed of the little they had managed to gain, white Americans were not only free to earn money and accumulate wealth with exclusive access to the best jobs, best schools, and best credit terms but were also getting substantial government help in doing so.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“The negro is now a voter and a citizen. Let him hereafter take his chances in the battle of life.”43 From this point forward, white Americans were ready to blame Black behavior, and not racism and the deprivations of 250 years of enslavement, for persisting racial inequities.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story