ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the need to show how Black theology can become a means for enabling ordinary people to better understand how the Brexit vote was one that preyed on the false consciousness or the limited awareness of the truth in the Leave campaign. Black theology was always conceived as being something more than just erudite academic reflections for its own sake. So this chapter is an attempt to show how one can use Black theology to critique what we see as ‘truth’ and ‘reality’ in the world. At the heart of the chapter is an experiential exercise that shows how a participative model of Black theology can lead to a form of conscientisation that helps participants to see the ‘rigged’ nature of British society that has never prioritised the needs of poor White people. This chapter challenges poor White people to see that their more natural allies are other poor people, predominantly migrants from the New Commonwealth, as opposed to rich, privileged and entitled White conservative politicians.
