‘Th’angelic train’ : Evangelicals, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Anti-racist Christianity of Phillis Wheatley and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (Article Commentary) by Gentry, Victoria Ramirez

“…On September 17, 2020, President Donald Trump spoke at the National Archives Museum for the White House Conference on American History and quoted Martin Luther King Jr.: “We embrace the vision of Martin Luther King, where children are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”1 After misusing King to establish his point, Trump launched into his critique of “the left” and what he termed Critical Race Theory2: “By viewing every issue through the lens of race, [the left] want to impose a new segregation . . . …”
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