Abstract
Systemic Racialism and the Continuing Struggle for Social Justice in the United States
Highlights
In an article I published in this journal in January 2019, I discussed teaching a course in 2015, “Ethnicity, Race, and the Church,” in which I had to stop beginning class sessions with a “What’s in the News” section due to the fact that there were so many examples of mainly unarmed black men being killed by police, and in some cases vigilantes, that it took up too much class time
Post study of fatal shootings by police during a five-year period beginning in 2015 found that African Americans were disproportionately killed by police
The development of the social imaginary (Taylor 2003) of race in the United States began well before the founding of the country, but it became more deeply embedded in the 19th century with the rise of “scientific racialism,” which purported to have scientifically confirmed that racial categories were, real, distinct, and that key intrinsic differences existed among the “races” (Lieberman and Scupin 2012; Meneses 2006)
Summary
In an article I published in this journal in January 2019, I discussed teaching a course in 2015, “Ethnicity, Race, and the Church,” in which I had to stop beginning class sessions with a “What’s in the News” section due to the fact that there were so many examples of mainly unarmed black men being killed by police, and in some cases vigilantes, that it took up too much class time. The outrage over the murder of George Floyd, which has come to symbolize the continued abuse and denigration of African Americans and other minority populations in the United States, has led to a renewed movement for social justice largely under the umbrella of Black Lives Matter, with estimates of the number of protesters since the death of Floyd ranging between 15 and 26 million, which would make it the largest such movement in U.S history.
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