Ibram X. Kendi Believes Jesus Should Be a Symbol of Liberation from the ‘American Empire’

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KENDI: "In many ways, white evangelical theology projects Jesus as not only white — but not only a white savior, but a white savior of people of color and even, you know — because we, apparently, according to this theology were a backward, uncivilized sort of savage race. And Jesus came, apparently, to save humanity, particularly to save black people, to save even poor whites, those so-called white trash from themselves, while liberation theology and black liberation theology is like, no, Jesus was a — as you stated, a radical revolutionary that came to free the people from the clutches of Babylon and oppression, and from the clutches of empire, whether it was the Roman empire or the American empire, and that the engine or the job of the church, you know, is to be a place or a space, really a home of revolutionaries."