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Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

Jul 1

Wess Roley, 20, killed 2 firefighters in Idaho brush fire sparked with flint. Not MAGA-related. Fits psych data on boys from divorced homes raised by moms: higher risk of destructive behavior. Here's why this matters:

Hurt boys grow to be men who tend to hurt others. Wess Roley grew up amid significant family turmoil. In September 2015, his mother filed for divorce, alleging that her husband, Wesley Roley Sr. had threatened her, pushed her to the ground, punched holes in walls, etc. Broken.

Court documents detailed years of alleged abuse, prompting a judge to issue a protective order initially barring Wesley Sr. from contacting both his wife and son.

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Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

May 31

This is a 1930 lynching. For whites, lynching was a social event. Like a college football game. My father tells how white girls, knowing their power, would taunt black boys in Atmore, AL when he was a kid: they would invite them to kiss them so they could get them lynched.

They’d threaten to lie about being assaulted by black boys, knowing it could get them lynched. My dad said black boys would run from white girls to avoid false accusations. The white girls/women—active in Southern churches—knew exactly what they were doing because they were evil.

What’s even more sad for me is that an entire generation of Reformed Evangelicals and Southern conservatives today a) don’t know this history & how central Christianity was to lynchings, and 2) have been trained to respond these stories with this, “That did not happen.”

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Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

Feb 28

Young Life was founded in 1941—well-intended but a bit misguided. Teens weren’t disengaged from church; they lacked their father's spiritual formation at home. Fathers are the greatest predictor of faith persistence into adulthood. Rayburn should’ve launched "Father Life"!

Again, have decades of data, dating back to the 1840s, that fathers are greatest predictor of faith persistence from childhood to adulthood, and instead of hiring pastors for men and fathers, churches hire youth pastors.🤦🏾‍♂️This still happens today!! Decades of data about fathers!

Adolescence emerged from dad-deprivation, yet the ministries pursued the kids (YMCA, camps, youth groups) instead of fathers. I still don’t get it. A 6:30 AM Wed. Bible study & F3 aren't enough to serve men and fathers. Fathers need comprehensive, structural support. #Confused

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Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

Feb 19

Oops. The 1950s suburban nuclear family was a massive cultural mistake: men were away from their children most of the week, the homes were terribly lonely for women, teenagers were around peers all the time and became delinquent, adultery exploded, men were lost & anxious,

mothers were viewed as the only important adult in the home and bore too much of the responsibility for managing all aspects of family life, fathers were just a source of income, suburban social life was boring, unhappy & frustrated mothers became distant from their children,

homes became increasingly child-centered and obsessed with performance, adult masculinity was reduced being a "company man" and spending time engaging in hobbies; teens had the financial means to be "me-centered" and became more nihilistic, rebellious, cynical, & materialistic;

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Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

Feb 11

https://twitter.com/rothmus/status/1889166886530646366

Wrong: I’ve written two books on Thomas Sowell. These posts are tiring & silly. Welfare destroyed marriage only among blacks in the lower quintile (the poor). Most blacks are not on welfare and @rothmus is presenting some nonsense here. Here’s why @prageru is dead wrong & lying:

https://twitter.com/rothmus/status/1889166886530646366

(1) AFDC grew in expansion to blacks in the early 1970s after Jim Crow. In 1970, approximately 22.3% of the African American population was receiving (welfare) AFDC benefits. Welfare impacted marriage for the 22.3% NOT the 77.7%. Conservatives are misleading people grossly here!

(2) This overlooks the relationship between employment and marriage for black men. This economic oversight is extraordinary. Black marriages declined overall when blue collar jobs left inner-cities, impacting low-income blacks more acutely. Men won’t typically marry if they feel shame about providing for a family (but they will have kids, thanks to welfare & women earning more money in their own)

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Anthony Bradley

@drantbradley

Jul 24, 2024

One of the largest influences on traditional black church music during slavery was the Scottish Hebrides Gaelic Lined-Out Psalm singing tradition. The Scots-Irish & enslaved blacks were so integrated as “lower-class” people that slaves learned & adapted lined-out Scottish forms.

This is what the original Scottish Gaelic Psalm singing sounded like.

Lined-out Scottish forms emerged in contexts where hymn books were not available. This tradition arrived with the Scots-Irish in Appalachia and across the Deep South. In fact, the Scots introduced the slaves to something called, “fried chicken.” The rest is history…

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