BLACK THEOLOGY AND DECOLONIAL CHRISTIANITY

Abstract

Since the 15th century, anti-black racism continues to violently project itself onto the black body. For this reason, the question of forgiveness, resentment, and reconciliation are neuralgic points for Black thought. In general, white and Eurocentered reasoning speaks of forgiveness and reconciliation in terms of adjustment, without taking into consideration colonialism as the main historical fracture in intersubjectivity that expelled Black people from the dialectical relationship in view of political-economic domination. However, we know that the advent of the new humanity, that is, the harmonious stage of mutual recognition, cannot arrive if not through the overcoming of hatred, resentment, and forgiveness. A mistake, however, is to think that this stage can come about without justice for the victims and repentance for the executioners, which for the black man implies Fanonian disalienation that restores the conditions under which love can emerge. In this horizon, we propose to continue thinking about forgiveness, not in a dogmatic and intimate way, but as a stage of subjectivity radically open to others and in gratuity, beyond the dialectic, namely: per-don. It is intended, therefore, to continue thinking of relational ontology as the only possible way out for our common humanization.