Brittney Cooper, African Studies Professor, Rutgers
Posted on 04/03/2015 2:49:00 PM PDT by drewh
Christianity’s tent is not big enough to accommodate both the supporters of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Rutgers professor Brittney Cooper, who in a Wednesday piece for Salon blasted both the state’s pre-fix RFRA and the religious right in general.
“This kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people and poor women,” declared Cooper. “That means these people don’t represent any kind of Christianity that looks anything like the kind that I practice…This white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy...This God isn’t the God that I serve…He might be ‘biblical’ but he’s also an asshole.”
Cooper argued that left-wing Christians “need to reclaim the narrative of Jesus’ life and death” from Christian conservatives, who “have not been good stewards over the narrative. They have pimped Jesus’ death to support the global spread of American empire vis-à-vis war, ‘missions,’ and ‘free trade,’ the abuse of native peoples, the continued subjugation of Black people, and the regulation of the sexual lives of women and gay people. Let us mark this Holy Week by declaring the death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy. And once these systems die, may they die once and for all, never to be resurrected.”
From Cooper’s article (bolding added):
Any time right-wing conservatives declare that they are trying to restore or reclaim something, we should all be very afraid. Usually, this means the country or, in this case, the state of Indiana is about to be treated to another round of backward time travel, to the supposedly idyllic environs of the 1950s, wherein women, and gays, and blacks knew their respective places and stayed in them...
…[G]iven our current anti-Black racial climate, there is no reason to trust that these laws won’t be eventually used for acts of racially inflected religious discrimination…
…This kind of legislation is largely driven by conservative Christian men and women, who hold political views that are antagonistic to every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class. Jesus, a brown, working-class, Jew, doesn’t even meet all the qualifications…
…[T]his kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people and poor women. That means these people don’t represent any kind of Christianity that looks anything like the kind that I practice…
I often ask myself whether I really do worship the same God of white religious conservatives…[Jesus] never found time to even mention gay people, let alone condemn them. His message of radical inclusivity was so threatening that the state lynched him for fear that he was fomenting a cultural and political rebellion…
…This white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy...
AD FEEDBACK This God isn’t the God that I serve…He might be “biblical” but he’s also an asshole.
The Jesus I know…was a radical, freedom-loving, justice-seeking, potentially queer (because he was either asexual or a priest married to a prostitute), feminist healer…seduced neither by power nor evil…
…We need to reclaim the narrative of Jesus’ life and death from the evangelical right. They have not been good stewards over the narrative. They have pimped Jesus’ death to support the global spread of American empire vis-à-vis war, “missions,” and “free trade,” the abuse of native peoples, the continued subjugation of Black people, and the regulation of the sexual lives of women and gay people. Let us mark this Holy Week by declaring the death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy. And once these systems die, may they die once and for all, never to be resurrected.
IOW, loser, hater, racist...explains the anti-white screed.
Saw someone say that because Jesus dined with tax collectors and prostitutes, it cannot possibly be against a Christian’s religion to bake a cake for a “gay” wedding.
When one reads this, one questions if, other than anger, there is any thought process going on. Clearly the author is upset, but there are no logical arguments here. Ad hominem attacks, for sure. This is senseless drivel.
Jesus’ life as a “narrative”.
I am struggling to adequately characterize that type of thinking.
Time to make Christians a protected group ?
Hateful wench. I do feel bad for her. She must live a miserable life without being able to know God’s love.
I am personally reaching the end of my patience. Where we go from here I do not know. But it does not look good. They are pushing us to our limit for their own purposes. Marshall law?
I just sent this article to a professional couple we know with a daughter at Rutgers. They are practicing Catholics, and I asked if this was worth their 40 - 50 K per year.
In case you’re wondering what the good professor looks like and believes in. It’s what you imagined and worse.
http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2014/11/professor-introduces-book-about-black-feminism
Prof Brittney Cooper is defeated by his own cant. Jesus is not a feminist healer. Nor is he a radical queer. In fact the only god of white supremacy and patriarchy among us is foisted by leftists. Read his diatribe to understand his beliefs. They are rooted in everything he shows contempt for.
Someone should email her and tell her that they are going to report her to university officials for calling the God of Muslims an a**hole. I would love to hear her response. (The accusation has merit in Muslim eyes, since they believe their God is also the God of the Bible.)
And very fat.
Hateful wench isn't she!
These people are mentally diseased.
I looked at the picture. It’s too stupid to concern myself with its feeble attempts to have an opinion.
Bingo
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