Banned books and white Christian nationalism: Robert P. Jones in discussion with Jen Rubin
"I'm afraid that if we're counting on white Evangelicals to pump the brakes, we shouldn't be holding our breath"

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Banned books and white Christian nationalism: Robert P. Jones in discussion with Jen Rubin

"I'm afraid that if we're counting on white Evangelicals to pump the brakes, we shouldn't be holding our breath"

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Christian nationalism and the hidden roots of white supremacy in America - WDET 101.9 FM

Author Robert P. Jones joins the show to discuss his most recent book and the impact of white Christian nationalism on American history and democracy. 

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Joy Reid then puts on the screen a polling finding of Jones' PRRI, which asked (2023) Americans to respond to this statement:

"God intended American to be a promised land where European Christians could create a society that would be an example to the rest of the world."

Onlyn 30% of Americans agree. But 52% of Republicans and 56% of white evangelicals agree.

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Joy Reid interviews Robert P. Jones about his new book The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy. He states,

"One of the things I've really become convinced of one reason it's at the heart of this new book is that this idea that this country is intended by God to be a promised land for European Christians is very much still with us."

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WATCH: My Conversation about THE HIDDEN ROOTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY with Joy Reid on MSNBC

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White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

Some of us refuse to remember — hence the attack on history programs in schools, on libraries, on academics. This attack is about establishing self-serving historical myths as "truth" and refusing to allow actual historical fact and truth to have a hearing. It is about who gets to control what counts as historical fact and truth, and to impose their myths on all the rest of us in a pluralistic democracy.

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"The nation can never fully achieve its ethical and political aspirations while living with falsehoods about its past, Jones suggests; though American history may constitute a challenging battleground, it provides essential moral guidance."

Jones insists, then, that without remembrance — without knowing and honestly facing our history — there can be no healing for the wounds that deeply weaken our democracy.

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Ned Blackhawk on Robert P. Jones' new book The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy:

"Less focused on racial disparities in income or educational attainment than on cultural forces of resistance, including 'white Christian nationalism,' Jones sees within contemporary America a pernicious refusal to accept 'remembrance' of the form that Biden has promoted."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/books/review/the-hidden-roots-of-white-supremacy-robert-p-jones.html

Book Review: ‘The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy,’ by Robert P. Jones

In “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy,” Robert P. Jones explores the harmful legacy of a 15th-century Christian doctrine used to justify expansion and colonization in the New World.

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Robert P. Jones' new book The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy will be published this week. As publication nears, he's appearing in various video clips and podcasts to discuss the book and its historical analysis of white supremacy in American culture and, above all, in white American Christianity. The posting below from his blog contains links to several of those interviews.

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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/its-publication-week-why-i-wrote

It's Publication Week! Why I Wrote THE HIDDEN ROOTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY

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White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

"Why are we in 2023, 2024 continuing to argue about our history lessons, continuing to argue about the Civil War, slavery, these things I many people thought were long-settled questions. I think it's because these questions, the roots of those questions, that is, what kind of a country are we and who is this country for, those questions have never really honestly and fully been answered."

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