Dale Partridge: White Supremacy Wearing a Clerical Collar

What's Happening

Pastor Dale Partridge is preaching a theology of racial hierarchy — telling his audience that God assigned Black people to subordination under white rule and calling for the European colonization of Africa. To baptize these claims in biblical language, he reaches for the Curse of Ham — the same centuries-old scriptural distortion that slaveholders used to sanctify chattel slavery.

This is not a gaffe. It is not a misspeak. It is a deliberate theological framework: white supremacy wearing a clerical collar.

The Pattern: Theology as Cover for Power

The Curse of Ham is one of the oldest tools in the architecture of religious white supremacy. The argument: Ham's descendants were cursed, Black people carry that curse, and white rule is therefore divinely ordered. Every generation of racial domination in the West has reached for some version of this text the moment it needed moral cover for exploitation.

What Partridge is doing is the pattern repeating:

• Select a text stripped of its historical and theological context.
• Assign it a racial meaning the text does not actually carry.
• Build a hierarchy on that meaning — subordination, colonization, divine right.
• Preach it from a pulpit so that power sounds like God instead of like power.

When a pastor calls for colonization and racial subordination from a church platform, he is not interpreting scripture. He is consecrating domination. The collar gives supremacy a Sunday-morning vocabulary.

Why It Matters

Religion & Power is the beat where institutional faith collides with state and racial power. This is that collision in its purest form: a religious leader using scripture to call for the subjugation of one people and the colonization of a continent — and calling the result obedience to God.

The danger is not only the message. It is the platform. When pulpits baptize supremacy, they hand congregations a moral license to act on it. Theology becomes policy becomes violence. The Curse of Ham was the theological engine of chattel slavery. Reaching for it again, in 2026, is not nostalgia. It is a recruitment sermon.

What's Missing From the Response

What you almost never hear from the institutions that host this kind of preaching is a clear, public, irreversible rejection of the theology itself. You hear "we disagree with the framing." You hear "this isn't representative." You rarely hear: this teaching is false, it has been used to justify slavery and colonization, and it has no place in any pulpit.

The gap between what the text actually says and what the institution is willing to condemn is where the pattern survives.

Notice The Pattern.

When power needs a moral alibi, it reaches for a pulpit. When a pulpit reaches for the Curse of Ham, power is no longer asking for permission — it is asking for a blessing.