The progressive-dominated Episcopal Church has finally found a foreigner it doesn’t want resettled into the US. White South Africans fleeing oppression cannot be welcomed into America because, in the eyes of these religious leftists, that would help bolster a dominant and oppressive “lighter skin tone” (their words) social construct that must be destroyed.
For the progressive activist, the massive unchecked wave of Third World immigration into the West, both legal and illegal, was never about helping vulnerable refugees. It was always about enacting radical social transformation via rapid and undigestible demographic change. Genuine assimilation is the very last thing these people would have wanted. The reasons why should not be hard to grasp. Harmony is the enemy of the social revolutionary. Division and disorder are two of the very best of tools for those eager to topple a hated status quo.
Not the Right Face for a Refugee
“In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on [May 12] that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration,” is how taxpayer-funded progressive NPR reported the news.
In what would seem to be a bizarre justification but in fact is nothing of the sort when one realizes its long-term goals, the Church invoked “racial justice” as a reason to reject the white South Africans.
“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” a letter from the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, to members states.
The moral opposition goes far beyond 1980s-vintage multicultural rainbow daydreams that have turned into a bloodstained-machete disaster in modern South Africa. Social progressives will not allow themselves to believe that white Westerners can be victims of racial abuse. For this goes against their entire worldview that white racism is the original sin that must be wiped away in order to return Multicultural Humankind to the socially just Garden of Eden.
Episcopal Epistle on Sin and Skin
In a remarkable document some 20 years ahead of its time, the Episcopal Church House of Bishops in 1994 issued a pastoral letter on the “Sin of Racism.” Guess who the great transgressors were?
“In the United States our primary experience is one of white privilege, even in places where whites may be a minority in the surrounding population,” the bishops proclaimed. “This comes as a surprise to many white people, because they do not think of themselves as racist. They may even see themselves as victims of various violent reactions against the dominant culture.”
The next sentences are crucial to understanding why white South Africans cannot be allowed into the US.
“Questions abound. Can the old melting pot image of assimilation be replaced by a better metaphor that reflects the value of difference?” the pastoral letter asks. “How can the inherited privilege and unearned advantage of some people be used to bring about the reconciliation of all?... How can the Episcopal Church, which reflects the dominant culture, be a factor in changing destructive racial attitudes and behaviors?”
Helping to bring more whites into an America that they can easily assimilate into is anathema to these clerical revolutionaries because they believe it will strengthen a society that they have sworn to overthrow.
The Episcopal Church has openly stated that white skin perpetuates “the nature of racism” that has defined America since its founding.
“As it remains in the USA today, racism is a system of oppression grounded in visible physical differences, and is designed to perpetuate the belief that one ‘race’ – defined primarily by its lighter skin tone – is superior to all others,” a 2011 “Antiracism Training Manual of the Episcopal Church” declares. “What transforms it from a prejudice into an oppressive system is the reinforcement that it receives from the systemic exercise of collective power, culturally socialized and institutionally organized.”
That is from an official document of the Episcopal Church.
Mandatory Anti-Racism Training For Priests
Lest we be accused of cherry-picking years-old tracts, allow us to present the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey’s “Anti-Racism Training 2025” seminar. It starts out with a quote from Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza stressing that “racism” is a “system of oppression” that serves as “a way of maintaining power for certain groups at the expense of others.”
“Systemic racism in America began during the colonial period and continues today. One reason it’s been able to survive is because it’s kept hidden and denied,” the diocese states. Among the topics that make up its Anti-Racism Training Zoom classes are “Systemic Racism and White Privilege,” “Internalized Racism, “Settler Colonialism” and “Racism in Immigration and Naturalization.”
Now here’s the kicker. You can’t be a priest or lay leader in the Episcopal Church in New Jersey without submitting to this education.
“All lay and clergy who hold elected positions on commissions, committees and other bodies of the Diocese of New Jersey must take the training at least every three years,” the diocese orders. “In addition, all clergy new to the Diocese are required to take Anti-Racism within 12 months of their calling.”
Anti-white agitation is not some fringe spoke of the US Episcopal Church today. It is a defining marker. It should be a scandal of the first magnitude that the federal government lavished millions in taxpayer funds to help these cultural radicals pursue their toxic agenda via the NGO mass immigration pipeline.
