Scholar-priest-activist Bryan Massingale on the state of Catholic approaches to racism: pic.twitter.com/IlCs9t5HBv
— Institute for Christian Socialism (@smashmammon) June 14, 2020
Commonweal interview
I challenge them to think of this: if it were up to people of color, racism would have been over and done, resolved a long time ago. The only reason that racism continues to persist is because white people benefit from it.
I note the disjunction between “multicultural chatter” and “sacred.” “Sacred” had nothing to do with “multicultural”. Being “sacred” means speaking in a white idiom, praying in a white idiom, using European hymns. It’s this normative whiteness that’s ubiquitous in the Catholic Church—which is its greatest hindrance to dealing effectively with issues of race.
Normative whiteness; if you don't like the ecclesial culture, petition to make your own. If you reject assimilation, then show you have the necessary qualities to successfully inculturate Christianity into your own culture. Don't hide behind your collar or your academic title or tell me that you have a necessary vocation to teach whites about their racism. Actions, not words. Fr. Massingale is more an identitarian activist academic than a Christian presbyter, and it is pathetic that some Christians or Latins would hold him up as a credible voice on white racism.
I still remember that attempt to create a distinct African-American Roman Catholic ritual tradition. How is that parish doing these days?
At this point separation, with all of the difficulties that may require with respect to resettlement and apportioning territory, may be the only peaceful solution.
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