Sermon: When the Villain is You Preacher: Rev. Taryn Strauss The white supremacist capitalist patriarchy lives within each of us. Somewhere, deep within, there lurks entitlement, the desire to dominate, to exploit, to take power, to rebel, to take the wrong path. When our shadow side informs our behavior, how can we repair? How can we make amends? How can we face ourselves and each other again?