Session 7: Wokeness, Whiteness, and the New Racism with Virgil Walker - 2022 Equipping Conference

Definitions of Wokeness, Whiteness, and the New Racism

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All right, session seven is Wokeness, Whiteness, and the New Racism. Please welcome Virgil Walker.

Y 'all don't know what I'm laughing at. He's got me a little card up here for a little personal humor. I appreciate that, Pastor Jim.

You share.

Oh, no.

I'm not even... That's going to wreck everything. That'll derail everything we're trying to accomplish. Well, again, thank you for having me. I appreciate the opportunity to be here before you. There are a number of things that I want to cover in this session, but what I'd like to do to begin with is really to slow some things down.

What I mean is I've had a number of you come up and have said, Wokeness. Can you explain that? I know that I'm supposed to know what that means, but I'm not exactly sure what that.

Means.

How many of you are in that boat?

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Whiteness.

Well, I know it has to do with the color of my skin, but what's whiteness? If I had to explain that to somebody, what is that? How many of you are still kind of like, what is that, really? Okay, more of you know what whiteness is.

Okay. Then the new racism, the new racism. How many of you could explain if someone asked you, what is the new racism? How many of you feel like you couldn't really explain that? Okay, that's most of you.

Okay, so from the title alone, right, of the talk, we've got to pause and answer some questions. So I want to do that, and by way of doing that, my goal over the course of the next few sessions is to do two things.

One, I want to slow things down for you, right? Yesterday, both between Daryl and me, you got a dump truck load of, bigger than the Tonka that he got yesterday. You got a dump truck load full of information.

And while that's wonderful, and we, that's just, I mean, Daryl said it very well. That's kind of how we do things. We don't cut corners. We don't, I mean, we just give you what we've been given, because we want you to have it.

The beauty of it is, and I noticed this last night, that this is being live streamed. So if you want to be diligent about the homework, I'd say go back and re-listen to the live stream, and then pause, and then write down some things and take notes, and then do your homework that way, because that'll be incredibly, incredibly helpful.

So I'm going to encourage you to do that. The other thing that, like I said, my intent is to really slow down. This session will be shorter than the last few, I think. That's my plan. That's my intention.

How about that? We'll start with that. Yesterday, I took two and a half hours for my one session, and this time I'll, I'm just.

Kidding.

I'll take a shorter period of time for this one, but let's start with some definitions. So if you got a sheet of paper in front of you, grab that, and I want to give you a definition.

Of woke.

So the title of this session is Wokeness, Whiteness, and the New Racism. Wokeness, whiteness, and the new racism. So let's start with a definition of woke, or wokeness, right? This is kind of just an urban vernacular, right?

I could go back to the origins and walk you through all of the history of who first said it and who started it, and like Daryl said, we always go back to original sources. But rather than do that, I want to give you something that you can use.

Something that you can go, okay, I can tell my friend that, right? I can explain that. So wokeness, you ready? This is really deep, okay?

To be awakened, all right?

So it's real deep, real hard, real theological. It's to be awakened, but let me add some things to that. In the current culture, it means to be awakened to the idea that America is systemically racist.

It's to be awakened to the idea that America is systemically racist. As a result of that understanding, you then understand that every single inequity, everywhere that you see someone having more than someone else, as it relates to race.

In this instance, when white people have more than a black person, or any black person for that matter, doesn't have something that someone else has, or more of it, then that is the result of racism. Being awakened to that truth is what is being woke.

Got it? Pretty simple. You can explain that to somebody, right? You could just say, hey, it means being awakened to the idea that America is systemically racist, and any inequity that is seen in culture is the result of racism.

Pretty simple, straightforward. You got it. Next up, whiteness. The majority of you knew what whiteness was, but I'm going to try to bring a definition that might be helpful. The other thing is, I would tell you that there are two episodes that Daryl and I did on whiteness.

All right?

So you can write these down. It's episode 67 and episode 100. Episode 67 and episode 100. Episode 67 was called whiteness. So you got a two-hour show about whiteness that you can enjoy, and then the other one was, I can't believe we did that, the other one is episode 100, and it was called a biblical exposition of whiteness.

Biblical exposition of whiteness.

Whiteness.

You ready for this? This is really, really deep. Whiteness is not blackness. That's important, right? And if you listen to the episode, you'll understand why it's important. But whiteness is not blackness.

Whiteness refers to the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes, and way of life have been normalized. Normalized to the degree that they're considered standard practices in the United States.

Now, I thought that this was simply American culture, right? But that's what's being attempted. What's being attempted is to attach American culture to something connected to melanin, and as a result, we're going to see that melanin is going to be a part of the American culture.

We're going to look at melanin as something that's sinful, and because of that, we can talk poorly about it, which leads us right into the idea of the new racism. So whiteness is white people, their traditions, their attitudes, and way of life that have been normalized over time to be considered standard practices.

This is the idea that all of white people hold the powers, the institutional power in America. That's the idea around that, again, which leads us into the next word, which is the new racism. The new racism.

So the new racism is a term that really you're encountering and probably know full well. It's really the same old racism. It's really the same old racism. It's just aimed at a new group that society has deemed acceptable.

The new racism is simply the same old racism aimed at a new group that society has determined is acceptable. As a caveat, I just wrote down, this isn't, the idea of the new racism is not a particular to an ethnic group.

The new racism is not particular to an ethnic group. Why do I say that? We talked about yesterday how ethnicity or race, race in particular, rather, is a social construct. And so what happens with race being a social construct, they can target the new racism at anybody.

It doesn't matter the color of your skin anymore. This new phrase can be leveraged at anyone. This is the idea where you have guys like Daryl and me who are considered white supremacists. And they're serious when they level that charge.

Or they would say, we're providing cover for white supremacy. This is where you have people like, you guys remember Winsome Sears? She was the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Virginia. She was a military, she had a military background.

She had done great things, was excited about being an American, stood against CRT. All of that was a part of what she was about. And she was really excited about her win. Well, she was immediately hailed as the puppet of white supremacy, right?

Black woman, her husband and whole family were really excited about the win. But immediately she was labeled as a white supremacist or someone who gives cover for white supremacy. And this is the new racism.

It's simply targeted at anyone who does not align with the current cultural narrative. You've heard us talk about narratology, right? It's the storyline that permeates culture. Narratology, it's the storyline that permeates culture.

It's this idea of victimhood. It's the idea that people who are of a specific ethnic background all have a shared, agreed upon experience that permeates victimization. That's a part of being victimized.

Well, I can tell you, like I said yesterday, I've been black my whole life. I've never been victimized. I just, if I have, I don't know it. And since I don't know it, I could care less about it. That kind of stuff just washes over me.

We live in one of the greatest countries in the world. If there was ever a place where I was victimized, this would be the place where I could overcome that victimization because of the way that the systems and structures are set up.

I mean, this is a place where people are trying to cross deserts to get here with less than anything in their pocket.

Why?

Because they know that the way that our culture is set up, the Judeo-Christian manner in which it was set up to begin with provides them the greatest opportunity to experience, to go from poverty to wealth, to have a family that may be struggling and suffering to one that's doing well.

Now, my goal in my time is not to brag about America. It's simply to say that those who are trying to give you an idea that the systems and structures somehow are set up so that a certain ethnic group is on decline is just a fallacy.

Today as we begin our session, I want to recognize again the ideas that we've covered in the.

Past.

What you're going to hear me do over the course of the next two or three sessions as well with Daryl, and we even talked about this earlier, was you're going to hear us repeat ideas that you've heard before.

That's on purpose. The reason I want to do that is because, like I said yesterday, you were overwhelmed. Today, what we really want to do is to solidify those ideas in your mind. You should be hearing ideas and terms over and over again, and now it should begin selling.

It.

Oh, I know what that means. I know how that's being used. I now can use it in a conversation based upon a learned understanding of that. Can I ask someone, if you would, to give me a bottle of water? That would be wonderful.

That would be incredibly helpful.

Thank you.

You got me here?

All right. Thank you, brother.

The Bible and the Gospel as the Answer to Cultural Confusion

So, here's where we're going to go. First, I want to take you back three years to 2019, or we can even go five years to 2017. If I asked you to write down on a sheet of paper during that time what you believed that we would experience on a cultural front, I doubt that you would be able to come up with predicting what actually took place during the course of the last three years.

It would be next to impossible. I would have never predicted what we've experienced. Even following 2020, as the calendar turned the page on 2020, there's never a way that you could write down what was going to take place during that time.

Everything from a world pandemic to a nationwide quarantine, from Ahmaud Arbery to George Floyd, from protests in the streets in the name of justice, to cities aflame. Even as we think about what we're witnessing today, it's really incredible when we think about the gender confusion.

I would love for you to sit down and go through an exercise, even as we're sitting—this is June, the month of June. I would encourage you to sit down and write out what you think, culturally speaking, based upon what we recently experienced that we will see happen in the next six months.

I guarantee you whatever you write down will pale in comparison to the events that will actually take place over the course of the next six months. The events and the days that we're in often remind me of what Paul wrote to believers in Romans 8, verse 22 and 23.

They read this way,. Amid what seems to be perilous times, I believe it's incumbent upon us as believers to hold on to hope. As I was listening to Darrell speak about the issues, and he is spot on. It is critical that you're aware that in our school systems, they are coming.

They have been coming for the kids, and even more so in the days to come. But as believers in Christ, those who should have more hope about these issues than anybody should be us.

Why?

Because we don't have to wade through the chaos to understand the clarity that Christ is exalted, that he is what is true, that we have the word of God, and we have a responsibility to proclaim that truth.

We have to recognize that. You all should be more excited than ever as you're being equipped with all of the information to go and declare truth. And that truth that you should declare is not the elements of CRT.

This is to inform you. You're not to go and declare the elements of social justice. This is to inform you so that when you hear it coming, you're calm.

You're steady.

You're clear. What are you to proclaim? You're to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. There's anything that we can learn from walking during the times that we're in is that we live in a fallen and sin-filled world, and the whole of creation, again, has been groaning for those who have the firstfruits of the spirit.

For those of us who have the firstfruits of the spirit, we groan inwardly as we eagerly await our redemption. As believers in challenging times, it's imperative that we stand on the foundation of the word of God.

And as we watch and witness the aurora of things around us, as things become ever more dark, it is critical for us to realize that the point that it is darkest, light shines.

Brightest.

It's the Christian worldview, the biblical worldview, which explains, reveals, and even predicts what we're currently experiencing. I'll go further to say that there are two ideas which bear your consideration during our time together.

And that's this. One, you can write these down. One, the Bible provides a proper diagnosis of the problems which ail us. The Bible, Scripture, properly diagnoses the problems which ail us. And number two, the gospel provides the prescription for cure.

It was Dr. John MacArthur who said this, quote, even though the Bible is an ancient document, every person in every situation in every society that has ever existed can find in this book things that endure forever.

Here's a book, continue to quote from MacArthur, here's a book, he says, that never needs another edition. It never needs to be edited. It never has to be updated. It is never out of date or obsolete.

It speaks to us as pointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in any century since it was written, end quote. It is my intention during our time together to speak to these issues related to all of us that through the light of this ancient document that still speaks pointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in any other century, that this book is the book that we stand on.

My goal and hope is, my goal rather is to give you the hope that is found in the pages.

Of Scripture.

Reconciliation in Ephesians 2 and the Ministry of Reconciliation

Turn, if you will, in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 2. I'm going to read this aloud and walk you through, give you kind of a glimpse. For those who are visiting, I will spend some time on Sunday really doing a deeper dive into this text of Scripture.

I say deeper dive, almost tongue-in-cheek because I kind of had an opportunity to witness your pastor, Pastor Jim, walk through a text of Scripture and I went, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. I'll do a light dusting over of these verses of Scripture on Sunday.

So if you're here in town and you'd like to experience that dust over, I would invite you to come visit. If you're traveling from far distance, that's my invitation for you to come on Sunday morning. Both Daryl and I will have an opportunity.

Daryl will be speaking earlier in the morning during Sunday school and then I'll have the opportunity again, my dusting over of this particular text.

Yeah, yeah.

I watched, in fact, I was telling Pastor Jim as I came in this morning, I got a chance to kind of listen to some of his sermons. You all are going through the book of Hebrews. So I went and looked at that and looked at these other ones.

I said, oh, there's a, I looked at, I think it was maybe you guys were in, maybe two years ago when you were in Hebrews 10 and then now you're in, now you're in Hebrews 11 two years later.

Yeah.

So I was looking at that and I didn't notice though there's a difference. I'm going to call him Pastor Slim Jim now and, you know, the other guy was a little bit, you know, but he's looking good.

Anyway, I digress.

That's to get you back for this note. You left me up here. So Ephesians chapter two, verses 11 through 20, read this way, therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands.

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in.

The world.

But now in Christ Jesus, you who are far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ for he himself is our peace who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in the ordinances that he might create in himself one new man in the place of two.

So making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body, one body through the cross thereby killing the hostility, verse 17. And he came and preached peace to those who were far off and peace to those who were near for through him we both have access in one spirit to the father.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

There's so much richness in that text and as it relates to the issues of reconciliation. This text identifies the fact that God the father has reconciled us through the finished work of Christ for those who are in him and completes that through the operating power of the spirit in the life of the believer.

There are two things at work and I'm going to try not to preach my sermon right now just so all inspired by what I'm reading here. The idea of what the gospel has done, the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Christ for the forgiveness of sins reconciles us, justifies us before a holy God.

And then on the other side of that, the work of the spirit works in us reconciling us one to another through the course of the sanctifying work of the spirit in the life of the believer. This is a beautiful section of scripture that if you ever get concerned about what you see in culture, you should use this particular text to remind yourself not of what's to come but what God has already done for which nothing needs to be added to or fixed on or some man-made idea, ideology be brought in in addition.

There's no analytical tool that needs to be added so that we can fix the issue of the races. This is what God has done. We can marvel in that work and be that much more awestruck by the goodness of God who reconciles us to himself and to others.

I better stick with my notes before I start preaching what happens on Sunday. So for now, I just want to point out that in a time that we live in when racial reconciliation is constantly on the minds of many in the culture and even Christian culture has adopted the new hashtag hermeneutic regarding black lives, the hashtag black lives matter.

Scripture provides a real, a righteous, and a responsiveness rather to reconciliation that only God can provide. Furthermore, God has made it available to all who come to him in Christ Jesus. You want to fix the issue of racism in the culture?

Preach the gospel. You want to see lost people turn their lives around and get out of the debauchery that we witness in the gender-confused society that we live in? Preach the gospel. You want to see the situations in the school systems and all of the things that we've talked about this weekend?

Turn the page. Preach the gospel. While many, due to recent events, have found themselves needing to quickly get up to speed on these contentious issues, Darrell and I have, over the course of the past two to three years have had the opportunity to speak in places.

We are witnessing a growing problem within the church regarding racial reconciliation. You already know how we feel about that issue, perhaps more importantly than what we're witnessing in the way of the problems.

As we think about the cures, the beauty of the issue is that God, in his infinite wisdom, has provided a solution in his word. That solution regards man's desire, A, for sin, and B, for what they need to do to turn that around with regard to righteousness.

Let me begin by saying this. The answers to the problems that we see in culture, the answers are simple. They are very simple. Now they are not easy, but they are indeed simple. While there are problems with regard to ethnic hatred, it's what we call ethnic hatred, racism, there are issues, right?

We're not here to tell you that there's not someone operating in ethnic hatred with someone. That's never what we, you'll never hear us say that that's not the case. Our challenge is the idea of the systemic nature of that issue.

The position I would argue is that for the Christian, any solution devoid of the gospel will only treat symptoms and provide a false sense of security for which there is no cure. We have got to be gospel people.

We have got to share the gospel and see it as the right solution in these instances. Well, the believer in Christ, any honest conversation about the subject of ethnicity or ethnic prejudice must first begin with a self-examination of one's own heart.

One of the things that we get charged with, yeah, you guys go around and you preach and you teach and you talk and you give cover for everything, and so now the one or two racists that may really be in the congregation, they get to get off scot-free.

They get to walk out the door, patting themselves on the back for the ideas that they hold that are contrary to scripture. My response to that is, no, you don't. That's never what we've said. What we begin by saying is that any issue in the heart of any one of us needs to be examined against the backdrop of what scripture says about this subject.

We have a responsibility to examine our own heart regarding sin. Scripture is absolutely clear on this. Psalm 139, 24 says, Psalm 26, 2, Galatians chapter 6, verse 3 and 4,. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself, but let each one test his own work.

Matthew chapter 7, verses 4 and 5,. You hypocrite. First take the log out of your own eye, then you will be able to see clearly the speck that is in your brother's eye. Scripture is replete with challenges and admonitions and commands for us as believers to examine ourselves.

Self-examination is critical when addressing this or any other issue regarding sin. I would simply add that the self-examination that needs to take place is not aimed at one ethnic group or one color.

The sin of racism and ethnic hatred does not discriminate. I recognize that those who hold the critical race theory view, and it is just that, a theory of criticism, right? You've heard us say this over and over again.

The critical and critical race theory has nothing to do with analyzing anything. It is purposely a critique for the purpose of deconstructing systems. That's the whole purpose. Critical and critical race theory has nothing to do with examination and analysis for the purpose of making something correct.

Okay, here's the correct standard. I'm going to analyze it and see if this issue aligns with that standard. That is not the purpose of anything critical with critical theory, critical gender studies, you name it.

None of that is true. What is true about the critical nature is it is designed to ask questions, to criticize. Then when you come up with an answer, it's to criticize it more. In the last talk, I remember Daryl saying, you know, hey, you need to define woke.

He said, don't bother.

Why?

Because as soon as you do, the critic will simply criticize your definition and then they won't give you one that they're working with. And then if you spend all the time doing the research and figuring out what you need to figure out and then come back and provide a new definition, what is the critic going to do?

They're going to criticize your new definition in an effort to deconstruct what you've just said. Then you go and you're trying to figure out, well, how can I make this thing work? That's why yesterday when there was a question, my neighbor, my friend is into CRT.

They've kind of bought it.

What do I do?

Well, you pray.

That's what you do. You pray and believe that prayer has the power, if this is a believer, to change their heart so that they can see the light of the gospel. If they're an unbeliever, you pray that they would receive the gospel so that they can even understand the light of truth that you're coming to share with them.

And those are the kinds of things that we have to think about. Critical theory holds the idea that the ethnic majority who holds power is the only participant in enacting racial or ethnic hatred. The Bible is clear that every one of us can hold hatred in our hearts against one another.

The first step in reconciling this division, however, is to begin with a biblical anthropology. We have to begin using biblical terms. You heard Daryl talk about this yesterday. We have to use biblical terminology to explain the subjects that we're talking about with regard to ethnicity.

Let me be the first to point you to the issue, an idea that I want to make, the point that I want to make here, and that is this, and you've heard us say this repeatedly, so I'm going to share it with you and I hope that you'll write this down.

Number one, point one is this, that there is only one human race. If you received nothing out of the talk that I gave, the very first talk, where I walked through the theology of man, right, I did the theology of man, the theology, I think, of race or racism, and the theology of the church, truth be told, those topics could have been a two-part, you know, study all by themselves, right?

But I gave you kind of a cliff notes. Let me give you a clip of the cliff notes in this talk here. Point one, again, there's one human race. Again, the title is Wokeness, Whiteness, and the New Racism.

We deal with that.

How do we address that? We start by understanding that there's one human race. There's one human race. Scripture is clear that we all came from one man, Adam, in my first talk. Again, I gave you these scriptures.

If you didn't write them down, I'm going to repeat them so that you have them. We told you Acts 17, 26, and he, that is God, made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined the allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling, Acts 17, 26.

Genesis 1, 27, so God created man in his own image, and in the image of God, he created them male and female, he created them. I gave you Malachi 2, 10. Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?

Then why are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? For those who are in Christ, however, there's another level of oneness. I talked about that new level of oneness. We are one human race.

I share a commonness with every person on the planet as a human being created in the image of God. As a result of that, I should share a gladness or a sorrow when an image-bearer suffers. I should be sad when an image-bearer triumphs.

I should get joy. It's the very reason why when you watch something on television, you see someone doing something that maybe had a tremendous struggle, and you see them overcome that struggle to triumph.

There's something that wells up in your heart. What's funny for me is the older I get, the more that tears well up in my eyes.

Why?

I'm identifying with another image-bearer. That's our connection point. There's an even greater degree of that for us who are believers in Christ. There's a oneness that we share. I can't emphasize this enough.

My hope, I know one of the things that's been a joy to be around you all is you all like each other. You all enjoy fellowshipping with one another.

Why?

Because you're identifying the fact that while, yes, I share in the common humanity that's out there, there is something special about the local body of believers that's here. For me, someone who came from Atlanta and flown here, you know that as I'm in Christ, you've embraced me as one of your own.

I've got more people trying to help us and trying to take care of us. All of this systemic racism, I guess that ain't in here, but the reality is we share a oneness that is eternal. Do you recognize that?

Do you understand the magnitude of that? I get the joy of spending eternity with the people of God. That's amazing. That's glorious. The beauty of that will be this, we'll be sinless in that space. Look, I almost went Pentecostal on y 'all.

Take a moment to wrap your mind around the beauty of that. Every week when you gather as the people of God, remind yourself of that so that you can grow in the hope that is in you. That light and the beauty of the implications, the applications of the gospel in your life can be seen out there.

At the end of the day, that's really what they're searching for. That's what they're hoping for. They don't trust God, so they're trying to create their own utopia. The utopia they're trying to create, the eschaton they're trying to create is something you and I experience every week.

That's why we're looking around, what's wrong with you people? That's why we're looking at culture, trying to figure out how do you not get this? Well, they don't get it because we haven't preached it.

They don't get it because you haven't shared it. And it's not CRT, it's not social justice, it's the gospel of Jesus Christ. Lest we forget the oneness that we have, the text in Ephesians 2 reminds us.

Take a look there at verse 14. It says this, for he himself is our peace who made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in the ordinances that he might create in himself.

Well, what does that say? One new man in the place of two. We are one body of Christ. That's who we are, so making peace. This is much more than an issue of semantics. This is an issue of biblical anthropology.

It's a biblical view of who man is. This is why it's important to understand these kinds of things for two reasons. I told you about the shared humanity that we all experience and then the unique brotherhood that we have as believers in Christ.

This is important for a couple of reasons. First is that the culture would have you to separate human life into categories. They are trying to provide additional categories for you to be a part of. And if you remember the talk from yesterday, we had the non-binary, non-gender affirming.

I mean, there were like 20 different categories to describe one person. The press secretary, the brand new press secretary for Joe Biden had to get up, and I think she gave at least three or four different labels to describe who she was in an effort to categorize herself as a first.

That's where culture is. That's not where we are. Secondarily, I think it's important for us to have a biblical anthropology for the reason that identity politics has given way to intersectionality. Again, intersectionality is a term that was coined by Kimberly Crenshaw.

Darrell, in one of his talks, gave you that name. So let me spell that for you so that if you're interested in going and understanding the origins of intersectionality, the person who gave you that phrase was Kimberly Crenshaw, K-I-M-B-E-R-L-E, Kimberly Crenshaw, C-R-E-N-S-H-A-W.

Again, Kimberly, K-I-M-B-E-R-L-E, Crenshaw, C-R-E-N-S-H-A-W. She was the first person that established intersectionality. If that's a term that you don't understand or don't know, it's when one person's truth is established as a priority on the basis of the intersections for which they can identify a victimhood status.

I realize that sounded like gobbledygook. I recognize that. Let me give you an example. For example, a white male's truth claim might not bear consideration if someone with more intersections of victimhood made a contradicting statement.

Let me give you another example. If a black transgender, I have to say this slow because you've got to wrap your mind around all these different isms and breakdowns. If a black transgender woman, that's a biological male who has believed himself to be a woman, if they had a truth claim that contradicted a white male's truth claim, the black transgender woman having more intersections of victimhood would need to be heard.