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Mar 21 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It’s simple. Not all kids like reading. But all kids like to learn, no matter how they try to hide it. Adults have to figure out the best ways to help kids learn, and that might include more than just words on a page.
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That’s why I’m thrilled to share with you the How to Fight Racism Young Readers package!

This suite of products geared for kids 8-years old and up consists of three items…
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1. The book!
Available in hardcover, e-book, and audio formats.
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2. The videos!
Six episodes that have music, pictures, and other video clips to illustrate complex concepts.
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3. The PODCAST!!!
A brand new six-episode mini-series where I talk to 4th and 5th grade scholars about racism and how to fight it. You can listen on the way to/from school, practice, or any time.
And with a cool new pic!
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If you’re wondering how to start or continue the conversation with kids about racial history, racism, and what to do about it, there’s something in the “How to Fight Racism Young Readers Edition” package for everyone! Learn more here…
#HowToFightRacism
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Mar 22
This is an important point. Recent books about evangelical history (including my work) elicit strong and pointed opposition from a certain (fundamentalist, far-right) faction of Christians. Here’s what seems to irk them the most…
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They don’t seem to have a problem with the veracity of historical facts prior to 20th century. The issue is questioning the role of slavery and white supremacy in the U.S. founding. They hate disrupting the narrative of inevitable racial and human rights progress.
Some very far-right folks still argue that slavery wasn’t that bad because benevolent/Christian slaveholders and/or the “at least they got the gospel” trope. Trash, but you hear it sometimes.
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Mar 14
Not only was I not exposed to James Cone or Black theology in seminary (except in the most negative light), to my recollection, we didn’t even read MLK. Not “I Have a Dream” or “Letter from Birmingham Jail” or “Where Do We Go from Here” not even in ethics classes. Nothing.
It’s not that a seminary education has to include assigned readings from each and every major Black or PoC theologian, it’s that the under-representation of such individuals usually means the over-representation of others, namely white men in a Western context.
Just because a white, Western male is doing theology doesn’t *necessarily* mean it’s wrong or bad, but the picture is incomplete. Different people in different contexts ask different questions and seek different applications in theology. We need each other to do theology well.
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Mar 13
If there was any doubt about how much this anti-CRT campaign is about bald politicking and not actually what's best for kids, let this letter from an organization representing 133 school superintendents in Virginia dispel them.
virginiamercury.com/2022/03/10/va-…
The school superintendents wrote a letter to Youngkin's state Department of Education and its leaders objecting to the administration's actions to curtail teaching "divisive concepts." One major issue, the admin didn't consult local education leaders!
virginiamercury.com/2022/03/10/va-…
The exec. director of the association representing the superintendents said, "We recognize [anti-CRT] was a campaign issue. However, we’ve never agreed with that...a lot of assumptions and very little research as to what’s actually being done in schools."
virginiamercury.com/2022/03/10/va-…
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Mar 6
The percentage of multiracial churches has increased over the last 20 years from 6 percent to 19 percent. That could be a sign of greater interracial understanding among Christians. BUT…
…that growth is because Black people and people of color are going to predominantly white churches. White people aren’t going to churches where PoC are the majority. The shift has been almost entirely one-way.
This one-way reshuffling may preserve majority Black and PoC churches as spaces of affirmation for those groups, but it may also speak to the (un)willingness of white Christians to follow Black and other PoC leadership.
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Feb 16
Phew! When you end up in @Newsweek because a group of conservative Christian parents and college students allege that you’re a stark, raving Critical Race Theory apologist! 😱 Fam, I’m a historian, and history has America’s many racist receipts.
newsweek.com/angry-debate-o…
I was invited to speak and preach at this college a month before the 2020 presidential election. 2020!!! This controversy has been going on for almost a year and a half!
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Notice the word “escape.” Too often Christian schools are set up as enclaves with high walls barring their students from “the world.” Attempts to engage other ideas are seen as attacking the Christian foundations of the school.
newsweek.com/angry-debate-o…
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Feb 15
In my first-ever piece for @BlkPerspectives (🙌🏾), I talk about the continuing importance of the Black Church juxtaposed with the ways Black Christians have always moved across the ecclesiastical color line.
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According to @pewresearch overall, 60 percent of Black churchgoers attend Black churches…Thirteen percent attend a church that is predominantly white/other, and 25 percent attend a multiracial church where “no single race makes up a majority of attendees”
aaihs.org/crossing-the-e…
The same @pewresearch study also shows church attendance among younger Black Christians…
Millennials
53% - Black church
18% - white/other church
27% - multiracial church

Gen Z
53% - Black church
25% - white/other church
19% - multiracial church
aaihs.org/crossing-the-e…
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