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Bishop Talbert Swan
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We were taught that it is our Christian duty to forgive people...After all, Jesus forgave those who murdered Him...we’re supposed to forgive the most vile, racist white person because “they know not what they do.”...they know exactly what they’re doing 1/8
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I believe in biblical teachings on forgiveness...I also believe they have been misunderstood...Black folks believe that unless we immediately forgive those who have invested in our...dehumanization, we risk becoming the...immoral creatures they are. 2/8

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There is a need to comprehend and rationalize trauma before we can jump knee deep into forgiveness...feelings attached to the damaging behavior must be...processed. This includes dealing with anger, grief, anxiety, frustration, and trauma. 3/8

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Blacks are expected to immediately forgive violence...America disallows the full humanity and emotions of Black people and demands that our suffering be done phlegmatically so...our despair neither offends...white folks nor sparks their...fragility. 4/8

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Our instantaneous forgiveness of racial violence perpetrated against us is white America’s unearned expectation. To do anything less would be callous and victimizing to our oppressors. 5/8

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Forgiveness...should include the time needed to endure the process from the moment of trauma to the moment of healing. It should be a...genuine expression of restoration...not a cheap means of self medication to cope with...Black life in racist America 6/8
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It most certainly should never be used to foster passivity and dilute a justified expression of righteous indignation in the face of white supremacy and injustice. It is a miracle that...Black people have not risen up against their oppressors...7/8

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Forgiveness should never be used to salve white fears that justified Black anger will hold them accountable for their long, treacherous history of beating, raping, murdering, burning, imprisoning, dehumanizing, and denying basic rights to...Blacks 8/8

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Bishop Talbert Swan
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This happened at a CVS in Los Angeles. “I hate n*ggers. F*ck you n*ggers. I would kill a n*gger, but the law says I can’t kill the n*ggers. If the law didn’t say that I couldn’t kill the n*ggers they’d all be DEAD!”

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Our “kill all n*ggers” bigot is Heather Lynn Patton, Hollywood costume designer who has worked with @AudraEqualityMc @TayeDiggs @pattyarquette and others. She says she was intoxicated.

A drunk woman’s mouth speaks a sober woman’s mind.

Btw, doing that last week, I found out @PattyArquette blocked me. I wonder why. She used to retweet me and be a constant in my mentions.

Oh well.
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Bishop Talbert Swan
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Y’all mad about this. I don’t care.
Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome was coined after years of historical and psychological research and describes a set of behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with trauma experienced by African Americans...1/
PTSS is when centuries of slavery in the US, followed by systemic and structural racism and oppression, including lynching, Jim Crow laws, and unwarranted mass incarceration, result in maladaptive behaviors, which originate as survival strategies.
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The syndrome continues because children are indoctrinated into the same behaviors as the parents.

PTSS can’t be treated clinically but requires social change in individuals and institutions that reify inequality and injustice toward the descendants of enslaved Africans.
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Bishop Talbert Swan
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Just got a call from a right wing rag trying to protect racist, pro life, activist @AbbyJohnson her racist rant against me earlier this week.

They were trying to spin the incident into a case where SHE was responding to attacks on her to justify her bigotry.

They called...1/4
... my church, the NAACP and other places trying to get comments about my so-called “derogatory rhetoric.“

Seems they’re working on the hippies to try to sanitize the right wing nazi bigot who spewed racist vitriol all over my TL...2/4
Abby is the subject of @UnplannedMovie and this is an attempt at damage control because so many people have taken her to task for her blatant, overt, disgusting bigotry. She gave an apology to her FOLLOWERS, lied and said her actions were in response to being attacked. 3/4
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