Telling the truth and shaming the devil

This chapter provides another model of theological resistance to Brexit. The essay uses a case study drawn from a participative form of Black theology–based work that uses the practical wisdom of Black people in Britain. The chapter demonstrates how Black phronesis (practical wisdom) provides a form of critical consciousness that operates as a form of folk inspired wisdom that challenges the distortions of Brexit. This work demonstrates how the folk proverbial wisdom of ordinary Black people offers a natural hermeneutic of suspicion in critiquing the epistemological weight of White privilege and entitlement. The proverbial wisdom of Black people is an important resource that challenges the bias and myopic narratives of White supremacy that underpinned Brexit. In ‘Telling the truth and shaming the devil’, this chapter demonstrates how a participative model of Black theology can provide theological tools for resisting the worst effects of Brexit and its narrow conception for what constitutes authentic belonging in Britain.