This is a fair follow-up comment on what is now his more famous tweet and again mirrors a traditional (European Reformational) concept of sin. We are all sinners. We don't know our sin. We should fathom the depths for purposes of repentance... https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1309926239407398913

Problems arise from other areas. Racial essentializing (which tends to fall into more classical racist outcomes) and if embraced having to own the fact that the racial pedigree of this type of thinking also finds its history in European philosophy and thought...

In other words whether the thought is European Reformational or hermeneutics of suspicion the pattern of thinking is just as Colonial as the practice he is suspicious of, and HE has been colonized by it but doesn't seem to see it.

If you face this fact head on you should give up trying to broadly racially-essentialize thoughts and practices because THAT practice has born such horrible racist fruit especially over the last two centuries.

AND, BTW, picking this fight over the current SCOTUS debate is sort of corrupt. Argue the merits or shortcomings of the nominee. Argue the duplicity or fairness of the nomination so close to the election given the rejection of Obama's nominee, but THIS point?

Back to the first tweet in this thread. CHRISTIANS should fathom the depths of their sin. There is also a subtle religious essentialism within the project. On what basis ought an imagined generic moral person to plumb the depths of their racism?

Again, the project is so deeply colonized by the European Protestant Reformation but seems wholly blind to this pedigree. I'm not complaining, but the blindness to this reality for a group keeping such close racial-essentialist score is breathtaking.