#150 NT Wright on the multi-ethnic mission of the church - Oxford Conference Session 2
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The Invention of Whiteness
The idea that people with my skin colour or that of various of you are called white is absolutely ridiculous. Evolutionism was taking the scientific footnotes as it were to support a social and cultural movement which said well just as different species of monkey or bird or tortoise have evolved over time so within the human race there have been different evolutions. This was going on in the mid-19th century with Huxley and others who were making up the theory as a way of instantiating empire etc. The cult of everyone apologising for everything I think has gone a bit too far but to say if there's any vestiges of that around for goodness sake let's eradicate it. Part
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