ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the reasons why significant numbers of Black people of African and Caribbean descent chose to support Brexit. This section of the book reflects on the impact of imperial mission Christianity: the religious, spiritual and material artefact of colonialism and empire and how it has affected the consciousness of Black people. The central aspect of this chapter is the exploration of a form of religious schizophrenia that has exerted a negative impact on Black Christianity in Britain, resulting in a form of self-negation in the psyche of conservative Black Christians. This work details how many Black Christians were convinced that voting for Brexit was a means of supporting ‘Christian Britain’ and the centrality of the tropes of empire, including respectability, loyalty and an acceptance of the heritage and traditions bequeathed to us by imperial mission Christianity. This chapter details how Black people bought into the Leave narrative to assert their loyalty to the religio-cultural frameworks of homogeneity and its concomitant suspicions of difference.
