The Catholic Church and Anti-Racialism, by Casey Chalk

By Casey Chalk, The Catholic Thing, Feb. 2, 2024

Casey Chalk is the author of The Obscurity of Scripture and The Persecuted. He is a contributor for Crisis Magazine, The American Conservative, and New Oxford Review. He has degrees in history and teaching from the University of Virginia and a master’s in theology from Christendom College.

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the influential “1619 Project,” once claimed that “the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.” Naturally, she also dismisses criticisms of her work as motivated by racism. Bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi has similarly labeled his interlocutors bigots, and in 2020 implied that then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s adoption of two black children was a kind of white colonization. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Cullors – who used BLM funds to bankroll her extravagant lifestyle – has accused her critics not only of being racist but also seeking to assassinate her. …