‘Evangelicals for Harris’ Host Has Said ‘Whiteness Is Wicked’

Wednesday’s upcoming “Evangelicals for Harris” event will be hosted by an activist who has a long history of bashing “Whiteness” and calling for the destruction of police departments.

The Evangelicals for Harris group announced on Saturday that activist Ekemini Uwan will be hosting their Zoom call this week, one of many identity-based online Zoom meetings in support of the new Democratic Party nominee that have sparked controversy.

Uwan has described herself on her website as a “reparations activist whose work spans the globe, as she has advocated for global reparations on behalf of Africans and African Descendants on the floor of the United Nations three times.”

Evangelicals for Harris, formerly Evangelicals for Biden, is a project of Faith Voters, a 501(c)4 organization.

With the Zoom event approaching, past statements from her about race and policy have gone viral on social media.

“We have to understand something: Whiteness is wicked. It is wicked. It’s rooted in violence. It’s rooted in theft. It’s rooted in plunder. It’s rooted in power. It’s rooted in privilege,” Uwan said at an evangelical Christian racial reconciliation conference in 2019.

She has also made numerous statements about law enforcement, such as calling to defund and even abolish the police as an institution.

“I would like to see at least 80% of the budget taken out and used for different services, that’s across the board around the country, then I’d like to see the police departments destroyed and rebuilt in phases. It has to happen in phases,” she said in a July 2020 episode of her podcast. {snip}

She declared in October 2016 that the police “needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. Policing was founded on the re-enslavement of Black people.”

She has also made numerous statements to the United Nations regarding reparations, including declaring Catholic and Protestant churches should pay their “debt” to Africans and their international diaspora.

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