America will only heal when it fully severs itself from racism and white supremacy—completely. We have to wipe the slate clean. No more excuses for “accidental” racism. No more dismissing harm as misunderstanding. No more minimizing what has been destructive for generations. We need a fresh start.
It is absolutely possible to hold conservative values without being racist. Jesus, in many ways, embodied what people today would call conservative principles—yet He loved everyone, honored their dignity, and treated people as though He truly believed they were made in the image of God (Imago Dei). That is the standard.
Honestly, it feels like we need to start all of this over. A complete reset. A new administration, a new spirit, and a new moral foundation—not because I am conservative, but because I believe in America. I believe in the freedoms we have: the freedom to create political parties, to debate ideas, and to engage in ongoing discourse about what liberty and justice should look like. But as a nation, we must come to a shared agreement on one foundational truth: racism, white supremacy, and every form of it has no place here—none.
Just as Germany publicly denounced Nazism, we must denounce our own past sins—and, truthfully, our present sins as well. We have to name it, reject it, repent, and rebuild. We must begin again so that no matter which political party leads, we can at least stand on this: racism is abolished completely.
And we must also untangle Christianity from racism, because that entanglement is not accidental—it is foundational to America’s history and even to aspects of its founding. But that is not the faith of Scripture. It is not the Gospel. It is a distortion, a counterfeit Christianity that has been used to justify oppression while claiming the name of Christ.
So we need a reset here too—a total rebuilding of what it means to be the Church in this country. That means returning to our churches, our families, and our personal faith, and rejecting the false theology that has been passed down as tradition. We have to stop confusing nationalism with discipleship and power with righteousness.
The Church cannot keep pretending that racial hierarchy and political dominance belong in the same space as the Gospel. We have to separate what has been wrongly fused together for generations and return to a Christianity that reflects the Kingdom of God—not the kingdoms of men.
And we must remember what Jesus made clear: we render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and we give God what belongs to God. The Church’s mission is not to preserve systems. It is to embody truth, repentance, justice, and love. Only then can we truly heal—only then can we truly start anew.
Dr. Anika T. Prather 