Here at Straight White American Jesus, we discuss Christian nationalism and racism often on the show.

But an important new book points out that the hidden roots of white supremacy can be found in a little known but powerful Christian doctrine

developed five centuries ago in the wake of the discovery of the so-called New World.

And it convincingly shows that understanding this history sheds new light on the menace of Christian nationalism in contemporary America.

Many of you will be familiar with Robert P. Jones as the founder of PRRI and the author of two previous books, White Too Long and the End of White, Christian America.

His new book is the hidden roots of white supremacy and the path to a shared American future.

It is a compelling historical analysis of the roots of white supremacy that shows the connections between the lynching of three black circus workers in Duluth and the mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Mancato.

Between the murder of 300 African Americans during the burning of Black Wall Street and Tulsa and the Trail of Tears.

Between the murder of Emmett Till and the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in the Mississippi Delta.

By excavating this history and telling the powerful stories of people reckoning with it today, Jones illuminates the possibility of a new American future in which we finally fulfill the promise of a pluralistic democracy.

The hidden roots of white supremacy and the path to a shared American future by Robert P. Jones is out now from Simon & Schuster.

Check the show notes for a special link to the book.

Welcome to straight white American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Neishie faculty at the University of San Francisco here today on a early September pre Labor Day Friday with my co-host.

I'm Dan Miller professor religion and social thought Lamar college nice to see you Brad it is it feels like sort of an endless summer to me these late Labor days but you know I'm a I'm a fall person so I'm ready I've been ready for summer to be done since like July 4th so yeah I know I know we are in different places when it comes to that.

How many pumpkin spice lattes if you had already you know I declined to respond I'm going to plead the fifth but I may or may not have the little pumpkin spice like spice thing in my cabinet at home and like just basically you did on cereal at this point so that's totally on brand because I can totally see you being like what $6 for a pumpkin spice latte that's ridiculous but I'm going to be a day I'm

middle-aged dad and I'm going to have the pumpkin spice at home and like so when the kids are like can we get a pumpkin spice like no we're going to go home and make it herself that's like class and it's going to be some terrible it's going to be like chocolate milk with like pumpkin spice like sprinkled on top and be like there it is you'll drink it and you'll like it yeah so shout out to all the parents who don't let their kids by stuff and you're like we can make it at home and it's kind of the same it's kind of not I've been doing my exciting thing this week down just really glam

or is I've been doing do a lingo again which is fun and enjoy it but I was thinking like when I was growing up my family is Japanese American from Hawaii my dad's side so we you know all so much of our culture and our food and our slang comes from Hawaii you know it's been they went to Hawaii four or five generations ago from Japan I don't speak Japanese but we learned a lot of Japanese bad words growing up that's kind of how it works sometimes

my mom was a German right like with her grandparents exact same thing like new nothing but profane German words that her grandma talked so I'm thinking look you know you've heard of do a lingo why not you and I launched an app called do do lingo where you just learn bad words and horrific insults in like 50 languages like I have a

Finnish friend who's taught me some of the most horrific insults it's not like hey you know go screw yourself it's like something like

ridiculously bad about your mother and this body part and it's all like in a very succinct phrase right I mean why why not just do do lingo five bucks a month and you and I'll be

billionaires and we can get that Lamborghini and Camry we talked about like a month ago I don't know that'll be awesome and then when I get

the teacher emails from my kids like saying stuff at school I'd be like do you know it was bad prove it was bad how do you know

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