The One You Feed Danté Stewart on Faith, Identity, and Finding a Voice
Mar 29, 2022
Danté Stewart, a speaker and writer focused on race, religion, and politics, shares his insights on navigating identity in a predominantly white culture. He discusses his book, "Shoutin’ in the Fire," and the struggle of being both visible and invisible as a marginalized individual. Danté highlights the importance of expressing psychological pain and challenges the prevailing value systems that perpetuate white dominance. He emphasizes the transformative power of storytelling and art in reshaping identities and fostering empathy.
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White Evangelicalism and Disillusionment
- Danté Stewart became involved in white evangelicalism during college and after, viewing it as a path to success.
- The 2016 murders of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, followed by Trump's election, exposed the hostility within this space, forcing a reckoning.
Hyper-Visibility and Invisibility
- Marginalized identities experience both hyper-visibility, a constant awareness of being judged, and hyper-invisibility, a lack of meaningful acknowledgment.
- This paradox creates psychological and emotional violence, a struggle to have experiences and pain truly seen and validated.
The Nature of White Spaces
- White spaces, regardless of political leaning, often perpetuate hostility due to the inherent nature of whiteness as a dominant, normative value system.
- This "normativity" makes it difficult for such spaces to genuinely acknowledge and address the experiences of marginalized groups.
