A seminary professor in Georgia is featured in a book of prayers asking God to help her “hate white people.”
The book, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, features a prayer from Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Mercer University associate professor of practical theology, that begins with “Dear God, Please help me to hate White people.”
“Or at least to want to hate them,” the prayer continues. “At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively.”
Walker-Barnes explained that she has no desire to hate openly racist white people and “strident segregationists” because they are “already in hell,” but instead, she wants to hate “the nice ones.”
Specifically, Walker-Barnes said she wants to hate the “Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who ‘don’t see color’ but who make thinly veiled racist comments about ‘those people.’”
“Lord, if you can’t make me hate them, at least spare me from their perennial gaslighting, whitemansplaining, and White woman tears,” the prayer says. “Lord, if it be your will, harden my heart. Stop me from striving to see the best in people. Stop me from being hopeful that White people can do and be better. Let me imagine them instead as white-hooded robes standing in front of burning crosses.”
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— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 7, 2021
Walker-Barnes has been criticized on social media for the book, which has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list according to its Amazon page, resulting in her defending her work on Instagram.
“Apparently a screenshot of my prayer from ‘A Rhythm & A Prayer’ is floating on the socials,” she wrote. “The folks critiquing have clearly never read Psalms (other than 23 & 100). Cause then they’d recognize what it’s modeled after.”
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On Twitter, Walker-Barnes explained that she wrote the prayer in response to one of her white friends saying the “N-word.”
What’s wild is I wrote that prayer after a White person – someone I would have called a friend at the time – dropped the N-word in a casual conversation. Y’all, I’m one generation removed from sharecropping. That word is traumatic AF.
— Dr. Chanequa (@drchanequa) April 7, 2021
“In all truth, my family and my personal experiences have given me millions of reasons to hate White people,” she added. “The hatred would be justified. I could even find biblical precedent for it.”
In all truth, my family and my personal experiences have given me millions of reasons to hate White people. The hatred would be justified. I could even find biblical precedent for it.
— Dr. Chanequa (@drchanequa) April 7, 2021
