Black Lives will matter only if Whites Repent

Black Lives will matter only if white Christians/churches do three things:

1.  confess our national social evils such as ethnocentrism and oppression; see Daniel 9 for a model prayer.
2.  engage in a large-scale, Nineveh-like repentance; see Jonah 2 for a model repentance.
3.  engage in a large-scale, Nehemiah-like restitution: see Nehemiah 5 for a model restitution.

The chances of this happening are small.  The historical record of 400 years is one of unending ethnocentrism and oppression.  At times, during the abolitionist and civil rights movements, it seemed like fundamental change had occurred.  But history shows us that systems of oppression were not really ended, only redesigned. As a nation, we have moved from slavery to segregation/sharecropping/prison gangs/lynching; then to mass incarceration and the racial wealth gap which prevail today.

Assyria/Nineveh was an exceedingly evil and violent nation, imperialistic and cruel.  Nineveh repented from top to bottom, from the inside out.  America has also been and exceedingly violent, evil and imperialistic nation for 400 years.  The primary targets have been and still are Native Americans and Afro Americans.

9/11 was an opportune time for national repentance over our financial and military imperialism; instead we defiantly and arrogantly sang God Bless America on the Capitol steps.  The 2008 Recession was another time of judgment, another opportune time for national repentance.; instead the Federal Reserve System became our financial god.

The BLM protests are necessary to expose our social evils; but only white repentance and restitution will bring about respect and justice for blacks.  But most self-righteous whites do not repent. Instead white oppressors put the focus on the flaws, the dysfunction of blacks.  They blame the victims of oppression---they are inferior, the dysfunctional ones.

And most whites, even Christian ones. believe their distorted ideology.  Whites are the good guys, the righteous and godly people.  A clever cover for continuing white superiority and privilege.