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18 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If #robertaaronlong had been voted POTUS, many SBC/9 Marks/Founders/White Big Eva leaders would be claiming him as their own but b/c he’s a product of what many of us have warned about, their leaders are racing to dissociate their tribes. What cowards. washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/…
Thanks @strypedleopard for sending me this awesome @spulliam article!
#RobertAaronLong was radicalized here.
#RobertAaronLong was radicalized here.

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16 Mar
Black Empowerment > Anti-racism. Black Dignity > Begging for Affirmation. Black Entrepreneurship > Progressive Gov’t Programs. The Future: Black Dignity, Black Agency, Black Moral Virtue, Black Empowerment. Is he wrong?
Book 1: amazon.com/Why-Black-Live…
Book 2: The Gospel and Black Dignity amazon.com/Urban-Apologet…
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13 Mar
Woke up at 4:30am bothered by how low-down white Christian elites were toward poor whites in Antebellum South & the Gilded Age. Booker T. Washington explained that newly freed slaves felt so bad for poor whites that blacks would teach them how to read & provide them charity.
Crazy! Blacks left a slave plantation and ministered to poor whites out of pity for them🤯. Seems that Scots-Irish Presbyterians seduced by Gilded Age money & power gave up on Scots-Irish “rednecks” which opened the door for them to be radicalized into white supremacy by the KKK.
To be more clear, the vast majority of poor whites (1877 to 1915) would not have been assumed to be anti-black. The White Christian elite minority advancing Jim Crow ideology turned the South in the racist place caricatured in the 20th-century. This may be happening again.🤷🏾‍♂️
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11 Mar
🤦🏽‍♂️...Because Presbyterians aren’t binary thinkers & have a confession that says, “the purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error”(WCF, 25.5), prudence helps you decide when & how to apply theories. Fundamentalists feel safe with “all or nothing” reasoning.
As such, Presbyterians have the reasoning skills & confessional church models to say, “well, duh, it depends on what the theory says. It’s not ‘all or nothing,’” Lutherans, etc. do this as well. mereorthodoxy.com/critical-race-…
Connectional confessionalism tends to produce better thinkers on cultural issues because theology is done in community. You’re less likely to reason like evangelicals—who tend to be tribal biblicists tossed/hysterical about by passing philosophical tends. whyblacklivesmatter.com/a-theological-…
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5 Mar
A theory: BLM, CRT, Summer 2020 are consequences of the 1877 Compromise. (1) After the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied the South. Blacks & poor whites were integrated: drank together, slept together, traded goods & services, black Republicans ascended to national office, etc.
(2) "Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power.
(2.1)As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes’ election.
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5 Mar
This is the theology that gave evangelicals permission to do nothing about black suffering during slavery & Jim Crow, “there is no immediate 1:1 correspondence between thriving spiritual conditions & thriving temporal conditions at the point of salvation.” christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2021…
He continues, “...point of salvation (2Cor 4:16). To be sure that day is coming in eternity, praise God, but this side of heaven they are not inextricably linked as if they were twin, concurrent, simultaneous fruits of the gospel.”
This is what slaves were told, “For the Christian, God accomplishes immediate spiritual salvation at conversion, yet God may (and often does) withhold temporal relief from oppressors or oppressive conditions until eternity, where our eyes must remain fixed (2Cor 4:7-18).”
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3 Mar
What Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks is doing with Project Hood is the one of the best models of helping struggle black communities in US history. It's simply paradigmatic for how to address structural brokenness while infusing black empowerment & agency. projecthood.org
Other (mercy) models I've seen over the years operate out of white guilt & shame where the goal isn't empowerment but increasing dependence on programs designed for white people to prove they aren't racist. This requires keeping blacks comfortably poor & dependent on white grace.
This type of anti-racism/social justice tends to structure black thriving in terms of dependence on the mercy of others and perpetuates feelings of inferiority (that sustain the black doll/white doll "Doll Test" of the 1950s). It sabotages black agency and black self-efficacy. Image
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