One dean at a Christian college in Ohio wrote that White grievance and rage are baked into the DNA of this nation” after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. She also said that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was “as American as baseball and apple pie.”
One dean at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio is claiming that “White grievance and rage are baked into the DNA of this nation” after the Capitol riot on January 6.
Valerie Bridgeman, the dean and vice president for academic affairs as well as a professor, made the comments in a piece for Church Anew focusing on how Christian leaders are responding to the Capitol riot.
The passage begins with Bridgeman’s experience as she watched the Capitol Riot unfold on her screens. Bridgeman says, “I want to be clear to note that they were citizens. They’ve been called a number of things, including by me: rioters, insurrectionists, seditionists. But they were citizens who believe that the election was ‘stolen’ from them.”
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