{"id":29825,"date":"2022-12-08T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=29825"},"modified":"2022-12-08T20:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:29:56","slug":"america-in-need-of-an-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/america-in-need-of-an-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"America in need of an Awakening~"},"content":{"rendered":"

John H. McWhorter, the author of Woke Racism<\/em>, is a professor at Columbia University who teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history. He has published over twenty books over the years and in this book, Woke Racism<\/em>, McWhorter argues the idea of new racial movements around the phrase Third Wave of Antiracism and the Elect. He strongly contends that \u201cpeople of a certain ideology are attempting to transform this country on the basis of racism.\u201d[1]<\/a> And he argues that this new Third Wave of Antiracism is a new religion growing that is attracting many good people who will turn out to harm those oppressed under systematic injustice and racism in America. McWhorter explains the movements of antiracism into three waves:[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

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One can divide antiracism into three waves along the lines that feminism has been. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and legalized segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and \u201880s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist is a moral flaw. Third Wave of Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that because racism is baked into the structure of society, whites\u2019 \u201ccomplicity\u201d in living within it constitutes racism itself, while for black people, grappling with the racism surrounding them is the totality of experience and must condition exquisite sensitivity toward them, including a suspension of standards of achievement and conduct.<\/p>\n

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The book is written around the author\u2019s observations of recent events and the idea of the rise of Third Wave Antiracism in America and how it is affecting to disserve the black community in the name of the fight against racism, it’s Elect \u2013 the followers of this new religion under the name of antiracism in America, and that Electism is a new rising religion in America. The author writes and shares his perspectives on a vast arena of the Elect tenets and how it ultimately disserves the black communities. As I read through this book, I felt disconnected from much of the author\u2019s views, solutions, and explanations because the voice in his writings felt a bit extreme. In my experience and personal view, America is a complicated and vast country made up of 50 diverse states. Within every state, the population and the compositions of rural areas to its main cities are made up of very diverse backgrounds of political and religious views. The roots of this systematic injustice and racial discrimination have been a constantly evolving matter of long history and these issues are changing rapidly as we speak in our modern age and are different from state to state. The view of assuming or categorizing people into generalized camps of the Elect and the others to me is too stretched and unrealistic in its arguments. The author does share many new insights into how this new religion is betraying and weakening Black America, but a more meticulous and in-depth resolution should be considered in answering how to work around them. One thing is very clear in America these days \u2013 it isn\u2019t just this Woke Racism, a new religion is growing, there are many new religions that are growing fast along with many Elects who view that what they see is the ultimate truth.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> John H. McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America<\/em> (New York: Portfolio\/Penguin, 2021), ix.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Ibid, 4-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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