Is the doctrine of inerrancy a doctrine of white supremacy?

Yes and no.

I’m more comfortable saying the doctrine of inerrancy *misapplied* is has been a safe harbor for white supremacy. I’ll explain

Black liberation theologians, such as James Cone, list Scripture as a pillar of revelation, but history is also just as much a vehicle of divine revelation. As such, liberation theology (LT) sees God revealing himself in history, especially in the liberation of oppressed people.

Putting anything on par with Scripture in providing divine revelation is anathema to classic conservative Christian theology. As such, LT views have been pushed to the margins of evangelical theological communities and teaching.

This criticism (not its marginalization) of LT is not without merit, but it may cause us to overlook a valid critique of evangelicalism’s outworking of inerrancy: the functional denial of any wisdom or understating gained through current historical events.

Practically this meant that fundamentalist Christians touting inerrancy had a tendency to say in effect “we don’t need new tools of understanding to address current socio-cultural issues (like racism) because all we need is the inerrant Scripture. Scripture is sufficient.”

Unsurprisingly, this led to widespread apathy amongst white evangelicals towards understanding current issues of race in this country. They had a convictional “out”- or maybe more than an out - a binding of conscience- to not get involved in “worldly issues.”

White supremacy could and would find comfortable lodging under the shelter of a (selectively) sociologically uncritical Christianity thanks to inerrancy misapplied in a such a way.

It’s not surprising then to see black LT’s move inerrancy off it’s “theological high horse” in their framework. It caused way too much ethical and sociological myopia to the urgent struggles facing the oppressed. This assessment by LT is accurate if wrongly addressed.

Elevating history to the importance of Scripture may be theologically erroneous. Yet LT offers EV a helpful corrective to a miss-applied application of inerrancy. One that smothered what should have been bold resistance to racism. And it appears, continues to do so.

For a helpful and concise introduction of Black Liberation Theology from perspective of evangelicalism I recommend Bruce Fields : Introducing Black Theology https://www.amazon.com/dp/1532680325/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_CHjJFbACP662E