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Joel Webbon, White Racism, Intellectual Dishonesty and the Growing , Dangerous and Alarming Stench of White Christian Nationalism!

5 min readOct 1, 2025

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Recently, a Texas “Christian” minister has caused considerable consternation and has found himself under fierce and frantic fire after informing White parents they’re “failing” their kids if they don’t warn them to stay away from Black people. The clip exploded throughout the blogger sphere and blew up online. Joel Webbon, a self-described Christian nationalist and Matt Walsh (another far right public figure), look alike who heads Covenant Bible Church in suburban Austin, espoused the remarks on his Right Response Ministries podcast and insisted that a crowd of Black strangers is “30 times more dangerous” that white parents must instruct their children to fear and not to interact with Black people — and that any parent who teaches children to be loving and accepting of all races is feeding them a lie that could put their lives in perilous danger.

In the sermon, Webbon urges white Christian parents to have what he refers to “The Talk,” not about police safety, the version Black families have long had to give their kids, but about staying away from certain neighborhoods and, pointedly, from Black people they don’t know. He declares his message as life-saving “truth,” accusing parents who teach racial equality of lying to their…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Written by Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

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