Professor Blames ‘White Christian Privilege’ for Slavery, Genocide

A professor from Fairleigh Dickinson University recently presented for Rutgers University and explained how “white Christian privilege” and “Christian privilege” are responsible for slavery, genocide and colonialism.

Rutgers University held the lecture on September 9 to explore the topic of “white Christian privilege.”

The law school’s Center for Security, Race and Rights hosted Professor Khyati Joshi for the presentation. Joshi published a book in July with the same title as her presentation, called “White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America.”

The professor of education also said she consults regularly with employers and schools on these topics.

Joshi’s presentation discussed how whiteness and Christianity are responsible for “genocide,” “slavery” and “colonialism.” She said she wants people to understand “the role Christianity has had in the construction of whiteness.”

She said that concepts like manifest destiny, the idea that colonizers were led by God to take over land, prove her points about white supremacy and Christianity.

“We have to also take into account the Biblical justification for slavery,” Joshi added.

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[TBC: The Bible never advocates slavery, but it does recognize the propensity of man's heart. Slavery is a reality and probably more widely practiced today in terms of sheer numbers (particularly in Islamic nations).That is one problem which skeptics scrupulously avoid. The Bible is simply recognizing what man himself is doing. There is very little difference between slavery and those forced by necessity to work in crowded sweatshops in today's enlightened Western nations.

Paul’s Epistle to Philemon is not considered in these discussions since it was Paul’s writing to a slave owner (Philemon) concerning his runaway slave (Onesimus). The point is, Philemon has become a Christian. Paul instructs Philemon to receive Onesimus “Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?  If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.” (v. 16-17).

In other words, Paul dissolves the slave/master relationship, and erects in its place a brother/brother relationship, in which the former slave is treated with all the dignity with which the apostle himself would be treated.Thus, even before the actual institution of slavery is abolished, the work of the gospel abolishes the assumptions and prejudices that make slavery possible.]