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Danté Stewart (Stew)

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Aug 24

One of the big problems we are facing is holding multiple griefs at the same time. Because our idea of humans are all-or-nothing, we totalize our morality and flatten the stories of our collective lives. We wrongly believe only one group is good/bad or deserves care.

This shapes our inability to sympathize and empathize with people. This makes us think only one group matters or only one group can be free. Right now, we’re struggling to hold multiple griefs in the context of systematic and interlocking oppression. Our language fails us.

We fear what holding space will mean for us. We think that if people don’t agree or move like us, then they must not care, or worse, they’re evil. The way we tell the stories of our lives, we think there’s only room for the single story or the single liberation.

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Danté Stewart (Stew)

@stewartdantec

Aug 11

I think I feel a kind of sadness at the way people are treating black people who are supporting VP Harris, who have stood in solidarity with Palestinians, only to be told we are the worst people in the world when we are on the frontlines in the fight against the worst of America.

A constant theme I’m seeing is this sadness, the actual jarring feeling when we are called named, treated as if we’re dumb and unloving because our lived experiences — very real and vulnerable experiences — make us have to hold together our humanity and others.

I have tried to name it something else. As I look at my 90 year old grandmother’s smile at VP Harris. Black women and men who stared in the face of white supremacy and defied. Who are loving kids and taking care of others and suffering and told they hate people.

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Danté Stewart (Stew)

@stewartdantec

Jul 28, 2023

Evangelical Christians don’t have a Jesus problem, per se. They have a white supremacy problem. They have a hatred problem. They have a capitalism problem. They have a homophobia problem. They have an arrogance problem. Jesus is just the vehicle. White supremacy is the driver.

In James Baldwin’s last known publication in 1987, just about a month before he died, you know what he chose to address? The way Christians we’re using and weaponizing Christianity for bigotry, arrogance, and hatred. THE LAST ONE. That’s what he chose. And little has changed.

There is, I think, three important years in Baldwin’s defense against Christianity. It wasn’t when he left as a kid. One was in 1963, another in 1968, and the last in 1987. In ‘63 he comes out with The Fire Next Time and goes on tour with CORE —specifically to Southern churches.

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Danté Stewart (Stew)

@stewartdantec

May 21, 2023

I was reading the gospels and more than once, Jesus had to correct the disciples when they were arguing. In one instance it was about what they couldn’t do and who wasn’t like them — their addiction to visibility and power. I imagine Jesus has to correct us today as well.

As Christianity was passed down through the ages, much of the faith and tradition moved from justice, mercy, and family to power, violence, and control. Scriptures where Jesus corrected unhealthy ways were evaded and replaced with an image of a warrior and fighter.

We don’t need to wonder why we modern Christians are also addicted to being right, arguing, and reinforcing boundaries that were never meant to exist. So many of us have made the disciples heroic and Jesus’s words of no relevance. The Bible becomes god and faith becomes war.

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Danté Stewart (Stew)

@stewartdantec

Mar 5, 2023

The greatest threat to Christianity is not secularity. It is certainty. When you are so convinced that you are right, then you will create all types of enemies and cut yourself off from all the ways God is active in another person's experience.

I am reminded of the gospel story where Jesus had to correct the disciples who were complaining about someone doing good work but not like them. For them, their proximity to Jesus blinded them to God’s power in someone not as close. A tragic thing faith can do to us.

The older I get, the more I realize the greatest threat to my faith is not my doubt. It is my desire for certainty. Faith is not about being certain or right. It is trusting the truth that God’s love and grace remains even when my faith leaves.

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Danté Stewart (Stew)

@stewartdantec

Nov 18, 2022

My driver picks me up this morning. About 30 mins into the drive he asks what I do. “I’m a writer,” I say. “Have you ever heard of Thomas Sowell?” I laugh. He begins going on a long right-wing diatribe. Fox News is playing in the background. Whiteness is exhausting. Truly.

He was sure to tell me about his black friends, how Martin Luther King Jr is his hero, why black people need to offer solutions, why he wouldn’t trade places with black people, why we need to just stop talking about race, and more. At 7 am in the morning.

If I’m honest, it legit made me sad and angry because, once again, I am reminded that no matter how much we try to avoid it, many white people just don’t care about our peace and what we actually go through.

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