The misconception of the gospel of Jesus as apolitical is a blight on American evangelicalism that robs its articulation of the gospel message of any power to affect the present. Jesus was not born into the world as an unspecific, socially and politically neutral human being, but with a socio-political location.
Though in the form of God, Jesus didn't hold on to equality with God with an iron grip, but emptied himself and took the form of a doulos--a slave, someone on the margins of society (Philippians 2).
The identification of Jesus with those on the margins is a political statement: that the God articulated in Jesus is the God of the weak, marginalized, and oppressed. Those in power will only know this God insofar as they follow the power-divesting example of the crucified and resurrected messiah whose kingdom from God does not work according to the logic of Caesar, the logic of empire.
Imperial logic holds that "peace" is achieved through domination: kill or be killed, enslave others or be enslaved, conquer and demand assimilation. According to imperial logic, our different specifics as humans--our backgrounds, languages, cultures, socio-political locations--are weaknesses and a threat to the "unity" of empire. The sameness of its members and/or their adherence to carefully constructed hierarchical power systems that advantage some and disenfranchise others is imperative.
But the incarnation runs counter to this narrative: the God who came as a doulos affirms the particulars of our contextual details as humans in various locations. It also criticizes the false story told by the empire: the lie that the oppressed and oppressors cannot be redeemed from slavery to the unjust systems and the ideologies that support them.
Imperial ideology argues that human specificity/location necessitates hierarchy, and imagines that our differences demand that some be on top and others on the bottom. Proponents of empire cannot imagine a world in which people are both different and equal, simultaneously political and yet not vying for power.
But the self-emptying God-human turns this logic on its head, the ruler of the universe divesting himself of power and privilege. By becoming a slave of all, Jesus subverts the imperial powers that insist on the necessity of a world that runs on the hierarchy of lords/masters and slaves.
The incarnation is nothing if not political. To say "Jesus is Lord" is to insist that Caesar is not--that though there presently exist many "gods" and many "lords" in this unjust world, for us there is but one Lord, and in contrast to the power-grabbing Caesar, this Lord comes as a slave to liberate all those in bondage.
If Jesus came only to save me from my personal sin, but didn't come to dismantle white supremacy, fuck this shit.