Burying White Privilege

Resurrecting a Badass Christianity

By: Miguel De La Torre

Narrated by: Paul Rodgers

Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

Argues that the biblical Christ is not the Christ of white Christian imagination

Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to hear.

Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 online essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La Torre boldly proclaimed the death of Christianity at the hands of white evangelical nationalists. He continues sounding the death knell in this book.

In Burying White Privilege De La Torre argues that centuries of oppression and greed have effectively ruined evangelical Christianity in the US. Believers and clerical leaders have killed it, choosing profits over prophets. Prophetically calling white Christians to repentance, De La Torre seeks to rescue the biblical Christ from the distorted Christ of white Christianity.

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it's about time

Rare voice in our time. Dr. De La Torres word is good news to the poor. It's refreshing to see the way in which he handles white supremacy; he goes straight to the root of the poisonous tree of death without apology. This book is not going to have good reviews from the people who buy into the false religion of white supremacy. Thank you for all you do.

Impassioned, important book - poor narration

Read the book!! ✨🔥

De La Torre makes an intelligent, impassioned plea for Christians to recognize how “whiteness” — as a social supremacist paradigm — is embedded within & propagated by Christianity. And, he offers an ethical framework for a liberation Gospel response, one that leans into despair and what he names an “ethics para joder.”

I’ve heard him talk — he delivers his ideas with a tone and energy that draw listeners in. I wish the publisher had taken such care with his book. As it is, the audiobook narrator could be the voice of a nature show or sleep story, but he isn’t the voice of resistance prose & poetry. He couldn’t even be bothered to learn to pronounce the few Spanish words correctly. It’s like the voice of whiteness actively suppressing the story. Disrespectful.

not his best work

an amalgamation of cliches and very basic information that everyone already knows. last chapter is the only mildly revelatory provocative part. Maybe good for a high school class but not deep enough for graduate study. also didn't like the narrator. would have preferred to hear de la Torres voice

Burying the gospel!

I agree and see clearly that American nationalist Christianity is destroying the true understanding of the gospel of Christ in America and driving many away from the faith. I was hoping to get a view of restoring biblical Christianity out of the morass of immorality and degradation that is portrayed by most of the religion people call Christianity in America today. A view to take the true gospel and apply it to current social issues, to speak for the oppressed and change attitudes of those who are blinded by the systemic oppression in America that opposes the gospel of Jesus. Unfortunately, the author is blinded by his own hate for the system and the rich that the gospel appears an afterthought only or just a tool to use in a fight against oppression. Actually, it’s not clear that the author even understands what the gospel is from what he says in this book. I painfully forced myself to listen to the entire audio book hoping to hear something, but I realized that the author was proposing just another system of religion that is no better. His cynical and mocking tone throughout will give those who hate more reason to hate, those who are prejudiced more reason to be prejudiced, like mocking “nailing power and privilege to the old rugged cross”. The author states “marginalized communities must call for disruption and social disorder... refusing to play by the rules established by those who wrote the rules" and likens it to Jesus overthrowing tables. So called bad ass Christianity “screws” with the social structures and that is the calling of a Christian. Really? Jesus who said His kingdom is not of this world.. The Christian is called to the important work of overcoming oppression and improving society with all of the abilities that God gives through love but the authors Christianity is no closer to Christianity than the American nationalist Christianity of today. It is hate and using Christianity for your own end, exactly like so many others. The author quotes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to try to gain some credibility, I think. I am glad I have King’s book “Strength to Love” to read after this to get a true understanding of where we should be going and true Christianity from a man with a tough mind but TENDER HEART. Do not waste your time on this book until you have read that one!