What made a pastor want to describe white privilege as 'white blessings'? | Poppy Noor

Louie Giglio said his choice of words was poor, but his attempt to rebrand white privilege should also grab our attention

On Monday evening, Atlanta megachurch pastor Louie Giglio apologized for calling slavery a blessing. In an online church service, he was apparently aiming to have an honest conversation around how racism has plagued our city for generations".

Then he said: We understand the curse that was slavery, white people do, and [we] say that was bad'. But we miss the blessing of slavery, that it actually built up the framework for the world that white people live in and lived in."