It looks like a trivial story. A narrative that may curiosity solely probably the most vapid tabloids. A well-known soccer participant allegedly will get drunk, throws up at the back of a taxi, calls the police, and the soccer participant allegedly abuses an officer. Now the Chelsea footballer has been charged with “racially aggravated harassment” of a police officer in London. What's the massive deal? And why ought to we care?
The footballer in query is Australian girls's captain Sam Kerr. She is a little bit of a hero in her nation and some of the well-known footballers on this planet. The alleged incident passed off in January 2023 however solely got here to mild final week because it was reported by the Solar newspaper.
At first some folks right here in Australia have been horrified – may our famous person be racist? That should be unattainable – she's a lady! He's homosexual! She is a colourful lady! And he has impeccable progressive views – not less than in public! However seems she's a closet racist?
Then got here the message about what to say to the officer – allegedly “silly white b***”. It wasn't only a sense of aid, it was virtually hysterical pleasure that erupted on social media. Out of the blue the phrase was getting used all over with photos of white politicians connected to it.
And therein lies the seriousness of an in any other case foolish and trivial story. It exhibits the contradictions, inconsistencies, and confusion in our tradition brought on by identification politics—particularly identification politics fueled by vital race concept. As a result of in vital race concept, white individuals are at all times racist and may by no means be victims of racism. These of us simpletons who simply understood racism as discriminating towards somebody due to their race or pores and skin coloration are manner behind on this.
Because the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Company and quite a few on-line commentators have instructed us, “calling somebody 'white' can't be racist” as a result of you may't be racist towards white folks. Apparently, to accuse somebody of racism who assaults one other due to the colour of their white pores and skin is to “gaslight” the actual victims of racism. The Guardian worries that our doctrine of racism shouldn’t be pure sufficient: “Racism is not an ideology that accompanies the racial capitalist techniques of colonialism, slavery and imperialism; it turns into a matter of particular person morality.”
Nicely, there you could have it. Racism wasn't actually about particular person morality. All of it has to do with capitalism, colonialism, slavery and imperialism, that are clearly issues that solely white folks do. Progressives have drunk so deeply from the properly of vital race ideology that they appear oblivious to the historical past of the human race. Purple and yellow, black and white, could all be treasured within the eyes of Jesus, however we’ve got additionally all been concerned in slavery, imperialism, and colonialism at one time or one other. I even met Chinese language, African and Arab capitalists!
The time period slave comes from the white Slavs as a result of so lots of them have been taken into slavery by Arab and African merchants. No race or nation will be free of the cost of slavery. However there is just one empire that removed it at nice price, and that’s the British Empire, whose conscience was moved by Christianity.
The transatlantic slave commerce was horrendous – and rightly to be repented of – however we should additionally be aware the position the British performed in eliminating slavery in lots of nations world wide. Kerr's personal nation, Australia, by no means had slavery – regardless of being a type of capitalist, imperialist colonies. Dare I say it was as a result of it was a type of capitalist imperialist colonies?
Nonetheless, in response to the crypto-Marxist vital race concept that has contaminated the higher echelons of our society, profitable folks of coloration like Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or Commerce and Commerce Minister Kemi Badenoch are merely neglected as “Uncle Toms” and instruments of their fingers. white oppressors.
One other instance of this “doublethink” comes from a case in South Australia a few lady accused of verbally assaulting somebody as a result of he was white. The decide dominated that being white in itself didn’t describe any explicit ethnic, nationwide or racial group and was not a time period of abuse as a result of white folks have been traditionally and culturally the dominant folks in Australia and have been due to this fact not in any sense an oppressed group.
Simply think about how silly this comment is and what it might imply if taken to its logical conclusion (though logic appears to have disappeared from a lot of contemporary society – most likely as a result of it’s seen as a device of Western colonialism!). Black, brown, and yellow pores and skin coloration are all indicative of race, however white, it appears, shouldn’t be—regardless that there’s clearly nonetheless a white race that oppresses folks. Go discover out.
Though white individuals are clearly not an ethnic, nationwide or racial group, they’re nonetheless the dominant tradition in Australia, the place 90.2 p.c of the inhabitants is white, so by this logic they can’t be oppressed. Attempt telling that to the poor white working lessons. And does that imply if I’m going to a rustic like Nigeria or China it could possibly't be racist if I take advantage of racist slurs towards the bulk black or Chinese language inhabitants as a result of it's dominant?
Regardless of all the idea and jargon, there’s a double customary right here. Let's return to Kerr's alleged abuse and simply substitute the phrase “white” in “silly white b******” with “black” after which think about how the Guardian, Chelsea and the BBC would cope with it. This means that there’s in some way a “proper” sort of racism.
One other current incident in London is additional proof of how far down the rabbit gap our society has gone on this insanity, when a West Finish theater determined to carry solely black nights. Black American playwright Jeremy O'Harris instructed the BBC it was so black folks may “really feel protected” within the theatre.
Think about if I have been a playwright and insisted that solely white folks be admitted to my theater on a sure night time! The Prime Minister's Workplace was proper to say that “clearly limiting audiences based mostly on race can be flawed and divisive”.
On this courageous new world the place pores and skin coloration trumps all, we’re merely rising racism, rising division by race, and reinventing apartheid after we embrace this insane ideology.
The Church ought to have the ability to present a solution to this, however sadly a lot of the Church has additionally swallowed all of the doctrines of vital race concept. For instance, the Church of England is just hastening its inevitable oblivion by spending some huge cash on hiring workers to “deconstruct whiteness”!
There’s a biblical reply to all of this, and it’s easy. There is just one race – the human race. To discriminate based mostly on coloration is clearly a sin. To divide the physique of Christ on this foundation is worse as a result of it negates the witness of the church. It’s within the true church that you just see the true unity of humanity—the place all obstacles are damaged down and we’re all “one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).
In the future I used to be standing on the door of my church and seen that we had an African, a Chinese language, an Indian and a European within the ministry. It wasn't deliberate or written that manner, it simply occurred and I used to be so grateful as a result of whereas the world is speaking about who is de facto black or who’s coloured or racist, the Church of Jesus Christ in lots of components of the world simply continues to create so many, which nobody can quantity—from all nations, tribes, peoples, and languages (Revelation 7:9).
David Robertson is minister of the Scottish Kirk Presbyterian Church in Newcastle, New South Wales. She blogs at The Wee Flea.
