Are Race and Religion on the 2024 Ballot?

Join Keith Magee and Foundation for Louisiana's CEO & President Charmel Gaulden to discuss the 2024 elections and the impact of race and religion on our politics.

On the campaign trail, race and religion are once more being weaponized before our eyes for electoral gain. Trump is seeking to win over the very Black and Brown voters for whom his MAGA movement has shown nothing but contempt through its peddling of racist tropes and demonizing of the Other. Meanwhile, an ultra-conservative Supreme Court is trampling over minority rights in the name of religion.

Is this how we strive to “form a more perfect union?” We live in a nation that is rich in resources, but poor in morality. As a result, inequalities that should have been eradicated long ago continue to fester and high levels of deprivation exacerbate polarization. In these fraught times, how can we come together to build a United States in which true justice is accessible to all, whatever our race, religion, or political beliefs?

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About the Book:

Prophetic Justice: Race, Religion, and Politics by Keith Magee, 2nd Edition (2024) with a new foreword by Susannah Heschel
In this prophetic collection of seminal essays and articles, the public intellectual, theologian, and social justice scholar Reverend Professor Keith Magee provides a thoughtful, sharp, and critical analysis of how questions of race, religion, and politics have an impact on society today. Prophetic Justice: Race, Religion, and Politics explores the historical context of American democracy and how it has long failed to deliver true justice to all of the nation’s citizens. It exposes the social construct of race and the myriad ways in which this false idea – along with the sometimes willful misinterpretations of sacred texts – have been used to justify the subjugating of one people by another, simply because of the color of their skin. Written between 2016 and 2023, these essays and articles touch on some painful subjects, but also give us reason to hope. Magee describes how, with empathy, courage, and faith, we can come together to face up to the injustices of the past and celebrate our common humanity, thus creating a new world in which every life truly matters.