Chris Broussard
He has done this argument for thirty years in rooms with no referee. He can tell you why the men who say Christianity is the white man's religion get most of their own sources from white men.
Chris Broussard. Sports analyst for FOX Sports 1 and FOX Sports Radio, co-host of FS1's daily studio show First Things First. Previously an NBA reporter for the New York Times (1998-2004) and twelve years at ESPN as an NBA writer, reporter, and analyst. In 2009 he founded K.I.N.G., a national Christian men's organization (Knowledge, Inspiration and Nurture through God).
Also anchors sessions 1.1, 1.4, 6.2 of the learning path
Who he is
Chris Broussard is not a professor, and that is the point of him. He covered the NBA for the New York Times, spent twelve years at ESPN, and now co-hosts First Things First on FS1. In 2009 he founded K.I.N.G., a national Christian men's organization.
Which means he does this argument in the open. Not in a seminar, but in barbershops, in churches, on panels, across from men who have read a stack of conscious literature and are ready to go. He has been at it, by his own count, for almost thirty years, and he seeks these conversations out: "If I'm driving in my car and I see a brother in a bow tie selling bean pies or newspapers, I'm like 'Let me go over and talk with him.'"
What you are getting in this dossier
The full catalogue of objections, listed by someone who fields them constantly. His diagnosis of what the objection is actually about, which is not Jesus and not doctrine. The updated version of the curse of Ham that replaced the old one. His rule for weighing conscious-community scholarship, which is more generous than you expect and more demanding too. The irony he has noticed about where that scholarship comes from. The double standard on who is permitted to fight for justice. And a cultural history of how hip hop carried all of this.
He can list them all
Most defenders of the faith answer the version of the objection they find easiest. Broussard just enumerates what people actually say.
"Well, of course, the most common is that Christianity is the white man's religion, that it was given to us in slavery to make us more docile, to make us nonviolent, and make us better slaves. Beyond that, you often will hear that Christianity is just a copy of the ancient Kemetic religion that Africans practiced in Egypt thousands of years ago. You'll hear that the Trinity of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit is just a copy of or Europeanized version of the Egyptian trinity of Osiris, Isis, and Horus. And then you may hear some criticisms or some people may say it's all about pie in the sky."
The rest of this dossier is part of Unspoken
3,630 more words and 14 more clips of him making the case, including the three objections he answers and the place he refuses to flatter his own argument.
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