The Death of Roe and the Resurrection of White Men in America – Red Letter Christians

The Supreme Court ruling that unraveled white male domination of women in 1973 is dead. With a 6-to-3 conservative majority, the Supreme Court revoked the rights of more than half the U.S. population; claiming the right of states to exercise agency over women’s lives, families, bodies and futures—especially poor women. It is hard to fathom American women could be forced by the state to birth children in 2022, but this is not new. As a Black evangelical whose family history was shaped by Southern slavocracy and Jim Crow, I know white supremacy always comes hand in hand with its twin: violent white male domination.

Research for my book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and The World—And How To Repair It All, revealed that my likely 10x great grandmother, Fortune Game Magee, absorbed the wrath of America’s first race laws– laws crafted to exploit women’s bodies for profit. Every generation after that has endured the exploitation of white patriarchy.

In 1662, White male…