The Bible commands us to love Christians, our church members, our families, and our nations in specific ways. But it doesn’t command us to prefer people with our skin colour over others. Black people are not my people, and white people are not your people either. Unlike our ethnicities, nationalities, and religions, our skin colours do not shape our core identities.

On my layover in Amsterdam between my flight from Ghana to Canada, a black man stood beside me at the airport’s arcade. I asked him a question, but he looked bewildered. I repeated the question several times until he finally said, “I do not speak your language.”

I was speaking in Fante, but he replied in English. I was 10 years old, and it was my first time outside of Ghana. He was the first black person I met who wasn’t Ghanaian. We had the same skin colour, but we had different languages, nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities.

He wasn’t one of my people.

White supremacists, woke people, and some versions of Christian nationalists, however, say otherwise. They maintain that black people are my people.

Earlier this week Stephen Wolfe, the author of The Case for Christian Nationalism, said:

“Christianity—as the true religion affirming what is true, good and beautiful— commands you to love all but to prefer your people over other peoples.”

In reply, I said:

“If he means Christianity commands me to prefer Christians over other people, he’s right. If he means Christianity commands me to prefer people with my skin colour over other people, he’s shamefully wrong.”

His preceding and subsequent social media posts suggest he was referring to people who share our skin colours, not people who share our faith. This, of course, isn’t the first time Stephen Wolfe and his group of so-called Christian nationalists have made concerning comments about “race.” Some of these Christian nationalists have embraced a soft version of kinism that is akin to Big Eva’s soft version of critical race theory.

Earlier this month, one of their own produced a “White Boy Summer” video that positively featured Nazi Germany propaganda and white nationalists. One of the people featured in the video is a former pastor who said:

“Why do they keep insisting that belief in racial superiority and inferiority means we’ve denied salvation to inferior races? 19th-c. Southern Christians believed in white superiority, and were more zealous and successful in evangelizing blacks than any “anti-racist” today…In charity we ought to expect this: Christians who humbly recognize their own superiority thereby recognize their special duty to seek the good of their inferiors. This is basic obedience to the fifth commandment.”

Many Christian nationalists celebrated the video. However, this is because some of them were just undiscerning about its racist agenda. However, when Doug Wilson shared his critique of the video, Stephen Wolfe replied:

“A better tactic would be friendliness to these young rightwing guys.”

He’s forgotten that friendship with the world is enmity with God. (James 4:4)

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