Black Theology questions. It questions the way both the formal and informal enterprise of Christian theological reflection has come to exist in the modern world. Black theology questions modern theology because the modern theological enterprise is permeated with whiteness. This means that modern theology, theology from the fifteenth century forward, formed inside and helped form modern racial consciousness. This also means that modern theology directly and indirectly helped foster white supremacy and white hegemony. Black theology formed to give witness to Christianity submerged in the death-dealing realities of racial existence. Yet to be submerged in racial existence has brought the painfully difficult task of attempting to get people, especially Christians, to see the very thing they are inside of – this has been the burden of black theology.