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30 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
As hard as fundraising is, in general, it’s even harder for Black-led nonprofits. Here’s why… 🧵
#GivingTuesday
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Racism grew and endured in the United States because it was attached to a financial system—race-based chattel slavery…For centuries, enslaved Black people literally built the wealth of this nation and they were compensated not a bit.
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Even after emancipation, Black people found themselves released from the physical chains of slavery only to be enslaved to generational poverty.

Through replacement systems such as convict leasing and sharecropping, the economic exploitation of Black people’s labor continued.
Throughout the Depression and postwar eras, officials routinely excluded Black people from federally-funded social support systems such as work programs and the G.I. Bill. They kept Black people from owning homes or trapped them in unfair mortgage and lending schemes.
The legacy of financial discrimination has led to a massive racial wealth gap.

The Federal Reserve reports that “The typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black family.”
jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-its-so-h…
A drastic shift in the U.S. financial system that would quickly close the racial wealth gap is not likely to come about in the near future.

The money to support Black-led organizations must come from the grassroots. It must come from “the people.”
jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-its-so-h…
If you’re interested in supporting a Black-founded and Black-led nonprofit consider donating to thewitnessinc.com
@TheWitnessBCC @WitnessFDN @_PassTheMic

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29 Nov
The “scandal of the evangelical mind” continues by denigrating the work of historians and sociologists for not being sufficiently “biblical.” We are called “false teachers.” But here’s a thread of my so-called false teachings. Decide for yourself. Image
From the intro to the “Color of Compromise” I explain why this tragic history of racism must be revealed—not to harm but to heal.
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What must the church do in light of its racist past? Discern between a complicit Christianity that compromises with racism and a courageous. Christianity that confronts it. Image
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21 Nov
I don’t think *most* of the Christians who try to discredit my work and that of other scholars are mean-spirited. I do think they’re so used to a narrow interpretation of the faith that they believe theirs is the self-evident and best way to think about and do Christianity.
When people come along who say A) your theological reasoning is just as socio-culturally influenced as you say mine is and B) your loved practice does not match your professed theological belief…they get defensive and default to what’s most familiar to them.
What’s most familiar to many Christians is a highly cognitive form of faith that explicitly or tacitly thinks that right belief necessarily, or at least mostly, leads to right practice. Pro-slavery and pro-segregationist church folk obviously show this fallacy.
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23 May
#OTD: This is a couple days late, but on May 21, 1961 prominent civil rights leaders (including #MLK), other activists, and everyday Black folks in Montgomery, AL were nearly burned alive in a church by a mob 3,000 white people. This is the saga of the "Siege of First Baptist."
The day before, on May 20, 1961, Freedom Riders had once again been viciously attacked by segregationists at the Greyhound bus station in downtown Montgomery. The attackers used baseball bats and iron pipes. They specifically targeted white Freedom Riders like Jim Zwerg (below). Freedom Rider, Jim Swerg shown in a hospital bed, beaten and
The next night, a Sunday, about 1,500 Black people gathered at First Baptist, pastored by Ralph Abernathy. Black Christians started ithe church in 1867 after the Civil War. After a fire, leadership asked members to bring a brick a day to rebuild. It's nickname: Brick-A-Day church Black and White photo of First Baptist Church Montgomery
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8 Apr
People making big deal about opposing CRT and "wokeness" don't seem to realize, or don't seem to care, that folks are leaving churches (or never being part of them) not because there's too *much* talk and action around justice, but because there's too *little.*
Study history. What has done more harm to people and the witness of the church--whiteness or wokeness? The consolidation of power among a select (white, male, wealthy) few or attempts at fostering racial equity? It's not even close.
#ColorofCompromise
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Would Jesus' words from Matthew 23:23-24 seem to apply more to those saying #BlackLivesMatter and talking about systemic racism or to those talking about wokeness as a "threat to the gospel"?
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7 Jan
It is clear that a consequential portion of Republican elected officials hold a particular view of America which only benefits “their kind of people.”

It is a vision so anti-democratic that secure it through exercise of raw, brutal power.

So what is to be done...
Unequivocally and boot these opponents of liberty out of the Republican party or start a new one.

Accept the repentant, but don’t waste time trying to persuade the obtuse, arrogant and violent.

Remember who caved and never, ever, ever vote a Trump lackey into office again.
Make repair for the damage the party has wrought.

Extend and protect voting rights for all. Act in true democratic fashion and listen to the will of the majority.

Aggressively enact policies to disrupt white supremacist extremist activity. Disassociate from racists.
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19 Dec 20
When indeed?

“When did the theological architects of American slavery develop the moral character to tell the church how it should discuss and discern racism?” @CharlieDates

religionnews.com/2020/12/18/we-…
And don’t miss this part: The GOP-ification of the SBC

“I’ve learned there is an unwritten rule in the SBC: Don’t criticize an entity head.

It’s the same approach that created President Donald Trump, that makes sure that no Republican leader will challenge him publicly.”
A sad commentary:

“Mohler hijacked the affirmation meeting of the Baptist Faith & Message, turning it into a conservative resurgence revival. In all that, he can never be criticized within his ranks. That’s the good ol’ boys’ club. That’s the old SBC.”

religionnews.com/2020/12/18/we-…
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