FAITHWIRE/ Tré Goins-Phillips-
Ibram X. Kendi, a leftist professor and author who helped popularize the mainstream understanding of critical race theory, described Jesus in a recent interview as a “radical revolutionary” who came to liberate people “from the clutches of … the American empire.”
The “How to Be an Antiracist” author told Uproxx’s Talib Kweli in July that he rejects “white evangelical theology” and believes in “liberation theology,” arguing the former teaches that black people are “a backward, uncivilized sort of savage race.”
Kweli claimed people have become more comfortable over time seeing Jesus as a “radical revolutionary.” He went on to ask Kendi to “break down the difference between, you know, seeing Jesus Christ as a figure of liberation versus, like, the white nationalist Christ.”
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