Also, if you’re saying, “He’s racist, but…” your privilege is showing. People of color do not have the luxury of qualifying or ignoring it. #Racism
If you see “Go back where you came from,” literally #1 on the #whitesupremacy all-time greatest hits list, and deny the blatant racism of the person who uttered it, you are truly living in a bubble of privilege and denial. #Racism
A leader encouraging a chant of “Send her back!” Towards a citizen who is a person of color at a political rally has effectively stepped over the line of #Racism to fascism.
Claims of “I tried to stop the chant” are hollow when compared to how John McCain shut down the woman who claimed Obama was an “Arab.” #Racismgoogle.com/amp/s/www.vox.…
(I’m aware that McCain failed to address the underlying #Racism in the moment, but still.)
“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block … is not … the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate … 1/4 #Racism
… who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; … 2/4 #Racism
… Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. 3/4 #Racism
When we white people fail to speak up about racist rhetoric from our leaders because it’s embarrassing, we are the “White Moderates” of MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. We are greater barriers to justice than White Supremacists. 4/4 #Racism
If we allow Racism and White Supremacy to go unchallenged in our discourse, we are like the Rich Fool of Jesus’ Parable who stores up treasures on earth that he will never benefit from. #Racism
A clear piece signed by a politically and denominationally diverse group of Christian Scholars - Against the New Nationalism | An Appeal to Our Fellow Christians | Commonweal Magazine #Racismcommonwealmagazine.org/open-letter-ag…
“O be not weary of well-doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of His might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it.” - John Wesley to William Wilberforce in February of 1791 #Racism#slavery
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Al Mohler has a quote in his mind-bending anti-student-debt-forgiveness diatribe (not gonna drive clicks) which reads, “Understanding a biblical conception of justice, a debt voluntarily and justly entered into remains a debt that demands to be paid.” 1/6 #StudentDebt
My dude, that is the overwhelming majority of what Evangelicalism defines as sins - acts voluntarily and justly entered into. Penal Substitutionary Atonement (Mohler’s fave flavor, not mine) would claim that such sins can only be atoned for by Jesus’ Death. 2/6
But that is the work of grace. Jesus dies and forgives the sin of the world (and the sins of the individual) without considering the merit or worthiness of the person forgiven. It is a gift freely given. 3/6
Why my conservative friends should be alarmed about what happened in DC last night:
1. The POTUS, in a pre-planned action, had the police tear gas and clear the private property of a church 25 minutes before the declared curfew. #StJohnsChurch#Protests2020 1/10
During this clearing, several pastors who were running an aid station to extend hospitality in the name of Jesus were expelled against their will from church property. 2/10
2. Minutes after the expulsion, the POTUS arrived in front of the church. He was given a Bible, which he admitted was not his, which he raised like some sort of idol to be worshipped instead of the Word of God. He didn’t open it, or read from it, or pray. It was a prop. 3/10
The President has, over the last weekend, implied that a whistleblower should be executed, and that civil war will occur if he is impeached. This is a president who supports “Law and Order?” #impeachment
Best quote overheard today: “Republicans have been reduced to the classic ‘I’m rubber, you’re glue’ defense.” #impeachment
Point: the president and his ambassador to the EU were having a phone conversation on a private, unsecured cell phone in a restaurant loud enough that people nearby could overhear them. No one disputes this. #HighSecurity#impeachment