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Christianity, Race, and Politics

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

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The First Race Law in the United States

The first race law came to be in 16 62, on this soil. Up up to that point, everything was social mores and also judgments in the courts. But that was the first legislated law. And notice that that law has intersectionality woven into it. It's not white men raping enslaved black women. That's an issue, but they're not perceiving it that way. Law is created out of a perceived need on the ground. So you know what they decided to do? They decided that the they were going to deal with this issue by making this declaration,. If any white woman marries an enslaved black man and has children by that black man, then her children will

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