Many are taught to equate white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan. I was.

“The contest over whiteness—its definition, its internal hierarchies, its proper boundaries, and its rightful claimants—has been critical to American culture throughout the nation’s history, and it has been a fairly untidy affair.” —Matthew Frye Jacobson

“The question of labor is one which commends itself to the attention of the capitalist.”-Sylvester Mowry

“In adopting the term ‘citizens’ we did not understand, however, that we were giving to those people any rights that the American people do not want them to have.”-Senator Joseph B. Foraker

“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” -W. E. B. Du Bois

This Treaty is part of a nineteenth-century barbarous textual tradition that championed and perpetuated the establishment of White, Anglo-Saxon supremacy across much of the globe.

We have conflated whiteness with Christianity so much that when challenged with whiteness, some will feel like their faith has been threatened.—Alexander Jun

We who God has liberated by the covenantal blood of Christ must commit to confronting white supremacy in ourselves, our institutions, and our societal structures.

Presidents and their policy advisors know that Christians have been endorsing and socializing each other to adhere to racist conceptions of governance to the point of including racist law-and-order rhetoric in their catechisms.