PURPOSE OF BOOK AND TABLE OF CONTENTS
"Racism,The Bible, and The American Dream" is a work in Christian apologetics (defense of the Christian faith) on the subject of racism. The book aims to dispel any misconception that the Bible condones racism, to better enlighten the public about the seriousness of institutional racism that exists in America against minorities today, to reveal how the Bible actually speaks against racism in any form, and to redirect, as many as possible, those who erroneously use the Bible as a weapon to justify racial hatred.
Unique message of the book: Racism is not just a social issue; it is a moral issue as well.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
RACE AND RACISM DEFINED …1
WHAT
RACE IS ….1
WHY
RACE IS …. 2
RACISM
DEFINED…4
Individual
Racism…7
Institutional
/ Structural / Systematic racism…8
Active
Racism…………9
Passive
Racism…….10
Scientific
/ Ideological Racism….10
Reverse
or Reactionary Racism….10
Religious
Racism….11
Minority
Racism….. 11
Horizontal Racism………12
CHAPTER
SUMMATION…..12
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CHAPTER 2
THE RISE OF
RACISM IN AMERICA…14
IT
BEGAN WITH THE “INDIANS” …14
THE
ADVENT OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA…16
The
Civil War….18
The
Making of the United States
Constitution….20
The
Amendments to the Constitution…22
- The Thirteenth Amendment….24
- The Fourteenth Amendment……25
- The Fifteenth Amendment….27
THE
BIRTH OF “WHITE AMERICA” AND
“BLACK AMERICA”…29
White
America………..29
Black
America…………….30
Who’s
white and who’s not…30
CHAPTER
SUMMATION…34
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CHAPTER 3
A HISTORY OF
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA………….36
EARLY
CHINESE IMMIGRANT DISCRIMINATION…36
JIM
CROW….39
Reconstruction
and Redemption….40
Segregation
under Jim Crow…41
Education
under Jim Crow: Brown vs. the Board of Education…42
“Passing”
under Jim Crow…45
Interracial
marriage under Jim Crow…45
The
O.J. Simpson double murder trial verdict….50
The
Robert Blake murder trial verdict……51
Housing
discrimination under Jim Crow…….52
THE
KU KLUX KLAN….53
The
lynching of blacks and other minorities in America…56
CHAPTER
SUMMATION……60
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CHAPTER 4
THE CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA….61
The
Emmet Till murder…..61
Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr……..62
The
Montgomery Bus
Boycott…….63
Little Rock Central
High……64
The
Woolworths lunch counter sit-ins….65
The
Freedom Riders…………66
James
Meredith and the University
of Mississippi….68
Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church….69
The
1963 March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom….69
The
Civil Rights Act of 1964….70
The
1965 Selma Marches…..72
Malcolm
X…………..73
The
voting rights of 1965…..74
CHAPTER
SUMMATION…..76
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CHAPTER 5
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN AMERICA…WHERE
WE ARE TODAY…………………78
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN POLITICS…..78
The
vote…..78
The
Electoral College….81
The
United States
Congress…….91
The
Office of the Governor….93
The
Office of the President of the United
States…..95
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM….102
Racial
Profiling…102
- The case of Janneral Denson…106
- 2010 Arizona Immigration Law……109
- The criminal justice system…..113
- The Jena 6………..116
- The death penalty and sentencing….118
THE
INSTITUIONAL RACISM OF HOLLYWOOD….120
Early
film making……..120
The
Birth of a Nation………..121
Oscar
Micheaux………..122
“Blaxploitation”
films………….123
Oscar
isn’t color blind…125
THE
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM OF BEAUTY….127
“Lookism”……..127
Hair……………………..130
Skin
color………..132
“There
she is”…………….136
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM…138
ENVIRONMENTAL
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM……..148
Hurricane
Katrina……………..150
- Levee history………………….151
- Details and implications…..151
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM….160
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN THE HOUSING MARKET….165
White
flight……………166
Predatory
lending………………167
Redlining……………….168
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN EDUCATION…….170
INSTITUTIONAL
RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE………172
Affirmation
Action……………173
The
Glass Ceiling………………………175
White
Privilege………………….177
CHAPTER
SUMMATION…………….180
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CHAPTER 6
RACISM IN RELIGIONS
AND IDEOLOGIES ASSOCIATED WITH CHRISTIANITY………181
THE
CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT……181
General
teachings of Christian Identity…………..182
Specific
teachings of Christian Identity…….183
THE
MORMONS……..186
THE
FALSE DOCTRINE OF THE “BIBLICAL BLACK CURSE”……194
“WHITE CHURCH”
/ “BLACK CHURCH”……..201
CHAPTER
SUMMATION………204
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CHAPTER 7
THE BIBICAL
PERPECTIVE ON RACE AND RACISM…206
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO RACIAL CATEGORIES………207
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO FAVORITISM…..211
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN EQUALITY….220
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO SLAVERY…..225
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO “INTERRACIAL” MARRIAGE…233
Moses
and his Ethiopian wife………….235
Marriages
that the Bible speaks against…………237
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO THE COLOR OF GOD….241
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO VERY DARK SKIN….243
Song
of Solomon………244
Skin
colors of disease………………..249
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO THE JEWS AS THE CHOSEN
PEOPLE.....253
Abraham:
The father of the Jews; a Great Nation……..253
The
Promised Land…………259
Chosen
Israel…………………………262
Salvation
is available to Jews and non-Jews alike…..268
Peter’s
prejudice…………….282
Jesus
and the Greek woman………….290
The
Samaritans…………………………………..295
People
of color and Jewish lineage……303
THE
BIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO PREDESTINATION….307
CHAPTER
SUMMATION…….315
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EPILOGUE…………………..320
APPENDIX: THE
BASIC BELIEFS OF CHRISTIANITY…322
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE IS INFALLIBLE AND HAS ABSOLUTE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY….322
The
Word of God….322
The
absolute authority of the Scriptures….325
Evidences
that support the Bible as being the Word of God….327
- Authorship….327
- Circulation………..328
- History……328
- Prophecies……….328
- Archeology…….............331
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AS LORD AND
SAVIOR ..……………331
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE IN THE DEITY OF CHRIST…….333
Evidences
that support the belief that Jesus is God……341
- His birth and his Name……….341
- The Messianic prophecies………….343
- Other historical documents…….348
- Risk of execution…………349
- Martyrdom………………………349
- Miracles and healings……….350
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST………………………….351
Evidences
giving support that Jesus was resurrected and sits at the right hand side of
the Father………….354
- The Resurrection cannot be disproved……354
- Hundreds of eyewitness accounts…….355
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE IN THE DOCTINE OF THE “TRINITY”…………………..356
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS A NAME……357
CHRISTIANS
BELIEVE THAT SATAN IS REAL…..361
