I’m teaching a class on US racial views & bell hooks is such a massive lament knowing that 90+% of our 2020 race tensions wouldn’t exist had white Christian conservatives from 1965-1996 chosen love & solidarity w/the black community instead of fleeing to create suburban shires.

What should have happened: (1) they should have rejected the church growth movement, (2) rejected the church planting movement based on HUP, (3) only opened Christian K-12 schools w/black church partnerships to have black students at “ ___ Christian Day School/Christian Academy”

4) Christian colleges should have out-enrolled black students by percentage than state colleges from 1965-1996. 5) White Christian businessmen should have invested/co-invested with blacks to start new enterprises, 6) White law firms should have out-recruited black talent;

7) White Christians should’ve purged the GOP out of their churches & not been seduced by power nor let themselves be so easily manipulated because pagan conservatives know that low-church evangelicals lust after cultural credibility & evidence of “cultural engagement/influence.”

8) White Christian conservatives should have made the case the “ #AllLivesMatter” (1955-1996) by doing the exact opposite of white conservative pagans & Southern morally therapeutic deists and pursued interracial intimate relationships & social lives *within* their social class.

9) White Christian conservatives should have placed themselves on city councils, county commissions, & state legislatures, etc. for the purpose of expanding economic & political liberty for low-income/working class blacks against the federal programs undermining black families.

(10) The South: White conservative Christians, from 1965-1996 should have led to fight to integrate fraternities, country clubs, etc. instead of following the lead of white conservative pagans & Southern idolatrous evangelicals who were trying to resist desegregation everywhere.

Finally, had white Christian conservatives (1965-1996) chosen Jesus instead of politics: (1) their kids & grandkids would still be members of their churches (no “declines”); (2) & conservative white GenZers (esp. males) wouldn’t be attacked & racially shamed for merely existing.

White conservatives Christians, should have rejected white evangelicalism’s intentional neglect & benevolent absence in the transition out of Jim Crow because of its unbiblical focus on “winning souls for Christ” & should have, instead spent 30 years in the book of Isaiah only.

Why Isaiah? Because the book shows the consequences of idolatry & cowardice. That’s the best way for explain American evangelicalism from 1965-1996. White GenZ males have every right to be pissed in 2020 at the faith their fathers & grandfathers gave them. It’s not fair to GenZ.

Without the cowardice and idolatry of white evangelicalism, white Christian conservatives who be enjoying the most black/white integrated marketplace, educational, & social spaces in America. Why? B/c 1965-1996 most blacks actually shared (most still do) their cultural values.

It’s sad to think about fact white young adult conservative Christians (born after 1996) are paying a heavy social price in 2020 for the neglect, cowardice, blindness and idolatry of their fathers & their father’s fathers. They should’ve read more Bible than Psalms, Acts, & Paul.