Yes, More on Catholic MAGA Boys: Conversation White Americans (& Especially White Christians) Refuse to Have, or Why Trump Is in the White House

Nothing has changed, essentially, since Robert P. Jones offered us the analysis of our serious cultural-political-religious crisis in 2016 in the passages highlighted below.

This is a crisis in which white U.S. Christians are singularly, critically implicated. /1 pic.twitter.com/AObT14hixb

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

And because white U.S. Christians do not intend to have a meaningful conversation about the issues that Jones' analysis surfaces, we are stuck as a nation: stuck with the moral monstrosity in the White House, stuck and unable to move forward with the dynamics that brought him. /2

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

We refused to have that conversation when Trayvon Martin was murdered, when Michael Brown was murdered, when Eric Garner was murdered, when Freddie Gray was murdered, when Tamir Rice was murdered. Not only have we refused to have the necessary conversation about these matters, /3

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

but white U.S. Christians — of all confessional stripes, right and left, across the board — are chiefly responsible for preventing this conversation and enabling our culture to negotiate its current crisis. /4

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

We refused to have this necessary conversation with the Covington Catholic MAGA boys. White Christians shut it down with media complicity and with the strong complicity of so-called "liberal" leaders both journalistic and religious.

We won't have it now with Jussie Smollett. /5

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

This is a conversation white Americans, especially white Christians, do not intend to have. And the mainstream media and "liberal" Christian leaders are deeply complicit in the refusal of Americans and white Christians in particular to face this problem and talk about it. /6

— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 30, 2019

(P.S. The reference "below" in tweet # 1 refers to the original tweet. The passages from Jones to which I'm referring are at the head of this blog posting rather than below the first tweet.)

For more on James Cone and his book Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody — for information from this valuable theological work glossing what I say in the preceding posting, see this subsequent posting.