With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog,, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. This then conveniently allows them to justify Islamophobia, general racism, and sexism because of another Biblical misinterpretation: the idea that women should be the property of men.Listen to an excerpt of Luvvie Ajayi's I'M JUDGING YOU audiobook, read for you by the author.Ĭomedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at, Luvvie Ajayi serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essays. Because - sorry to burst any racists’ bubbles - but there’s no way that Jesus, a Jewish man from the Middle Eastern town of Nazareth was ever a white dude with blonde hair and blue eyes! However, a lot of Christians like to forget the reality of this statement and continue distorting their religion to make it fit their conservative political views. But that’s not what the verse literally means at all, and a lot of Christians also conveniently ignore a lot of other rules that are far more explicit - like God’s command to avoid eating shellfish or pork or wearing your hair in a manner that looks “rough.” The same is true of the common Christian portrayal of Jesus. Likewise, Ajayi recounts instances of white people telling her, “Oh, you’re so well spoken!” after an interview.įor example, Ajayi notes that many Christians often refer to - and misinterpret - the Bible verse Leviticus 18:22 in their argument that homosexuality is a sin. For example, a woman who might proudly say that she doesn’t have a racist bone in her body will - without thinking - clutch her purse a little tighter when a black person stands near her. As a result, this privilege ensconces some people in a bubble, leading them to blindly indulge in racist micro-aggressions. And because those who conform to a white, Christian, heteronormative standard of social acceptibility, it means they’ll experience a certain quality of life - and a set of expectations - that many other people can never share. And unfortunately, although we may have done away with slavery, the social structures which privilege the white, wealthy, and powerful are still in place.
You can’t avoid it, given the fact that the success of white people was literally built on the blood, sweat, and tears of enslaved Africans.
Why? Because racism is intrinsically woven into the fabric of American culture.
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