Thread by @AlsoACarpenter

So, Pastor T made a good point in this podcast about one group of people who have turned rabidly anti-CRT and I'd like to expand on it a bit.

This group sees people of color leaving their churches over the last over the last few years, investigates why, and decides it's the 1/

https://twitter.com/PrestonSprinkle/status/1363968615310098433

2/ pernicious influence of CRT. In reality, this folks have just become aware of the racism in the church and denomination, have pressed back on it, and ultimately leave after no change. Now, the folks who are still there think, "why are these people going on about racism? I'm

3/ not a racist, my church is not racist, and I don't even know any real racists." Upon investigation, they realize that this brothers and sisters leaving don't define or understand racism as they do--as personal hatred toward someone because of their skin color. So, where did

4/ they get this "new" definition of racism? Some more shoddy investigation gives them what they think is the answer: CRITICAL RACE THEORY! They still have no idea what it is, but it's new and they say crazy stuff about White people. This must be where it's coming from. Of

5/ course, though, they know nothing of the abolitionist and civil rights history. They haven't really read Douglass, Du Bois, Cox, Malcom, or really even nay King beyond their nursery rhyme version, so maybe the understanding of "racism" they're hearing from people of color

6/ leaving their churches IS new to them. But it's not what they learned in their middle class White upbringing, so it's just wrong. Probably even anti-gospel. So they go down this long path of demonization of what they think to be this wild alien ideology polluting the minds of

7/ people everywhere and driving people out of the church. To be honest, some of this is even understandable at this point in their game. But then dozens of people tall them, "hey, you don't know what you are talking about, you aren't familiar with the traditional Black

8/ understanding of racism, and most of us don't know much about CRT anyhow." But it's too late, they've dug in, their platforms and their identities depend on continuing the smear. They read book after book to find statements that can be used to defend their further and further

9/ intrenched misunderstandings and characterizations. Now its' part of their identity. Now it's part of the gospel itself. Now its a struggle between good and evil, God and the Devil, the Gospel and the world, the Christian politics vs. all manner of perversions and even Black

10/10 ... Supremacy.

And here we are.

Just thinking.....

So many typos. Sorry, working at the same time.