1/ Dear White churches, Please do not say you are doing anti-racist work, if you are not willing to apply the call to love your neighbor to your politics.
2/ Politics is the decisions we make about how the polis will live together.
Brown, colonized, lynched Jesus has much to say about how the people should live together.
Brown, colonized, lynched Jesus has much to say about how the people should live together.
3/ Race, itself, is a #political construct; conceived by Plato in 360BC as a way to order society.
You CANNOT engage issues of race and muzzle yourself on issues of politics. You simply cannot. It is not possible. Race is a political instrument.
You CANNOT engage issues of race and muzzle yourself on issues of politics. You simply cannot. It is not possible. Race is a political instrument.
4/ Politics does not have to be partisan. In fact, American politics was not supposed to be partisan. George Washington warned that if our politics ever became too partisan, then we would not be able to govern.
We are here.
We are here.
5/ As Christian faith leaders, we have an obligation to disciple the church. That discipleship does NOT end at the voting booth.
How we vote is a revelation of how we believe the people should live together...
How we vote is a revelation of how we believe the people should live together...
6/ Christian discipleship should not be guided or paced by the obstinate among us. It must be guided by the scriptures biblical call to Shalom.
7/ Finally, if public discipleship remains in the realm of learning and not doing—especially in the political realm—then you are posing as #woke while the oppressed are slaughtered. You are centering yourselves, NOT loving your neighbor.
8/ So, White churches, do not march with BLM then fail to speak when politicians leverage their power to subjugate the Black and Brown vote.
Don’t show up to indigenous rallies against politicians’ confiscation of indigenous burial grounds then fall silent in election season.
Don’t show up to indigenous rallies against politicians’ confiscation of indigenous burial grounds then fall silent in election season.
9/ Don’t retweet the hashtag #familiesbelongtogether then fall silent about policies that break families at our southern border.
Don’t preach that we are all made in the image of God then muzzle yourself when politicians maneuver to secure White patriarchy.
Don’t preach that we are all made in the image of God then muzzle yourself when politicians maneuver to secure White patriarchy.
10/10 I close with this: Engaging the political construct of race IS a direct confrontation with powers and policies hell-bent on crushing the image of God.
When you are “called out” you are not being pushed out. You are being called in to join the struggle.
When you are “called out” you are not being pushed out. You are being called in to join the struggle.
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