Revolutionary Intent

There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole.

There is nothing about your condition here in America that is an accident.
- Malcolm X

Trying to produce a reconcillatory ethos in a white supremacist environment is a tool of evangelicalism. It is a ploy to keep Black folks from protecting themselves by any means necessary while white supremacist abuse them in the name of (g)od. Therefore, prayer is no longer a revolutionary tool used for liberation but a subversive apparatus of bo***ge.

Dr. Cone was right: "...a just community cannot be created in an atmosphere of hate and violence."

In Jesus and the Disinherited, Thurman unearths a Christianity that is useless for the oppressed, disenfranchised, and marginalized as aimless banter used to further one's own oppression. He is clear that salvation without a detachment from the evil hand of racism, Jim Crow and white supremacy becomes a functional hamster wheel of destruction.