Evangelicals praying for the impossible

How White Evangelism Uses Trump As “God’s Plan”

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readDec 18, 2020

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Back in 2019, former White House press secretary and expert liar on cue, Sarah Sanders gave an interview to the Christian Broadcasting Network, (CBN) where she declared that her supreme leader, was ordained to be president by God himself.

Her bold proclamation was expectedly controversial, but to be fair to Sanders, she does boast a background that’s seeped in white evangelism with a politician father and former governor of Arkansas, who is also minister, and currently hosts a talk show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).

The immaculate ascension of the white savior, who was called by the Almighty at a time when white America desperately needed to be saved from threats of extinction, after weathering two-terms of the first-ever Black president became the preferred narrative of white supremacists, who’ve historically weaponized Christianity to condone unforgivable atrocities.

British imperialism was summoned by the mandate of spreading the good word of the Lord to Black brutes, blessed with limitless resources and the cultural roadmap solidifying superpower of Blackness, that was always an affront to white power — hence the violent invasions and centuries of captivity, manifested in the name of the Lord.

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