![The Written-out Slaves](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sowing-Seed-600x600.jpg)
When Dalits write, they contest these misrepresentations and objectifications, and provide a sub-version of the texts. When Dalits write, they experience liberation. A decolonial reading of this given text calls us to offer our support and solidarity with #Blacklivesmatter and #Dalitlivesmatter, recognising an agency of liberation in our Dalit and Black bodies, lives, and texts.
![Pandemic Police Populism](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Pol-Theol-Netwk-Pandemic-PHOTO-600x435.jpg)
Blaming Covid 19 on the World Health Organization or on a lab in China and calling Black Lives Matter “radical leftist extremists” follow the American-populist playbook of responding to duress by targeting an alien “other” who have wronged “us” and whom “we’re” right to combat with force.
![Flashback – What Political Theology Has To Do With Race In America (David True)](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Red-and-black-handrpint-600x600.jpg)
When we understand that the Nixon campaign combined a call to law and order with the so-called Southern Strategy, it becomes clear that white sympathies were cultivated and that blacks were made to play the part of the enemy. Nixon’s presidency was a take-no-prisoners form of democracy mixed with demagoguery.
![The Politics of White Supremacy—Ephesians 6:10-20 (Robert Williamson)](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15-08-23-American-Dreamers-600x600.jpg)
Although the Apostle Paul’s discussion of our struggle against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places may strike many readers as a relic of a primitive cosmological outlook, it is fiercely relevant in our own day, where white supremacy functions as just such a power. Ta-Nehisi Coates has spoken of the illusions and lies undergirding the American Dream and, with the Apostle, calls us to awake to and struggle against the forces and ideologies that bind and enthral us.