Thread by @stevengberman

I think protest is a valid and necessary way to express grievances. The black community has valid and real grievances with law enforcement. But #BlackLivesMatter requires acceptance of way more than those facts. 1/

This “intersectionality” is a problem. Because to really be “woke” you can’t accept that the result of decades of social engineering coupled with rent-seeking grifters & politicians have taken the teeth out of civil rights by making it a government thing not a spiritual one. 2/

The answer is always more government rules to conquer our lives and subvert families. The problem is that for many black male role models, jail is a natural part of their experience. Resisting cops, fathering children w/o being a father, ho’s, cash, taking stuff is celebrated 3/

Celebrated in music, friendships, and even in churches. Those who preach family values, God, duty, sacrifice are the ones who succeed, but they are squelched by the cultural noise. If they’re black, they’re told they are race traitors. 4/

Whites who care about civil rights must also accept violence, thug life, looting and the presumption of racist cops, racist politicians, racist companies and racist government officials everywhere in plain sight. But that’s false. 5/

In today’s #BlackLivesMatter movement, Dr. Martin Luther King would be rejected for his unshakable stand on believing in God and the power of the Gospel, in rejecting sin and materialism. For his love and acceptance of Jews. 6/

MLK was not “woke.” He didn’t need to be. He knew who he was in Christ. He knew racism was a spiritual matter. He knew that civil rights could not be granted by the government through unjust laws must be repealed and just ones take their place. 7/

Today, it’s about reparations, guilt, power, revolution. The revolution we need is revival, not totalitarian control of our lives. We don’t need to be canceled, we need to be redeemed. The problem with #BlackLivesMatter is there’s no redemption in being “woke.” 8/

There’s only more grievances, more to cancel, more to erase, more to destroy. And I don’t accept that. I want to build up, not knock down. Black men, believe in who you are in Christ and live it. Then neither jail, nor injustice nor persecution 9/

Will pull you down. Your dignity comes from God not the government. You might say that’s easy for this white boy blogger in the suburbs to say and you’re right. But it is still true. Protest won’t fix racial injustice. Government created the problem. Truth is the answer. 10/

I think #BlackLivesMatter with no “buts.” Also, #seektruth, #lovegod, find your identity and source of your human dignity in God. Then march with His righteousness. Only then will you see the glory. 11/