Why Social Science Fails Blacks and How to be Truly Anti-racist

Abstract

Because accounts of the development of social science ignore the formative role of Christianity on its history, its adherents remain incapable of accurately representing people not long-honed by the Western Church. Social science has deep roots in racism; it is primarily relevant to people of European origin, the extent of “humanity” as understood in the nineteenth century West. Social science’s not having an ongoing role for the Gospel, which centers on Christ’s self-giving on the cross, renders it incapable of grasping African people’s relation to blood sacrifice. Dependence of social science on outdated Newtonian physics leads to a dichotomy between “supernatural” and “natural,” that is irrelevant in traditional African culture.