For my white Christian friends. Stop trying to be neutral about race. Your neutral approach is the epitome of whiteness. I have seen to many posts expressing compassion for Officer Darren Wilson and for Mike Brown and his family. Sometimes you have to choose a side. This is about race, and this is about race in an important way. Gratuitous violence against black bodies is deeply engrained in the foundations of all of society. If your response to the shooting of Mike Brown, is that we should have compassion for all involved, then you are complicit with structures of white supremacy, racism, and antiblack violence. Your theological position is nothing more then liberal multicultural tolerance that is color blind to the realities of antiblack violence. These theological positions have too much white love, and not enough love for those who are the constant receivers of gratuitous violence. I would encourage reading some black liberation theology. In James Cone’s essay “God Is Black,” he writes,
The brutalities are too great and the pain to severe and this means we must know where God is and what God is doing in the revolution. There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed Blacks. We have had too much white love, the love that tells Blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black power, which is the power of Blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject God’s love.
If you believe that God is a God of love, then you have to pick a side, and that side cannot be Officer Darren Wilson. Your love cannot be directed at him. Your love should be directed at Mike Brown and Mike Brown’s family. Your love should be directed at the black community. Your love should be directed at the black bodies that have been marked as disposable and criminal before they have even ever had a chance to live.
coperoge 
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