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Black America is in an abusive relationship with this country. We were violently forced into this non-consensual relationship. We’ve taken the beatings, killings, rape and psychological & emotional torture & have survived. #thread
We’ve been lied to & cheated, but we continue to clench our teeth, hold our rage & find opportunities to be happy, if only for brief moments.
All the while, begging (and demanding) this country to love us back, when we know deep down inside it’ll never love us the way we deserve to be loved.
To all the people, designated White by colonizing nations, who are becoming disillusion by your evangelical or Christian faith: When you walk away from Jesus you are not #woke. You are operating out of the white supremacy you say you abhor. 1/ #LiberatingEvangelicalism
When you walk away from Jesus and Christian faith to be “woke” you are walking away from a faith that sprang from brown, indigenous, colonized people. You’re walking away from faith born on the underside of empire in the context of oppressed peoples. 2/ #LiberatingEvangelicalism
You’re walking away from the faith of enslaved people who found such profound liberation in Jesus that they broke laws to gather together and worship in #trees! 3/
