2/ While I have reflected that my relationship with Jesus has moved from boyfriend-ish to brown liberator, Bob reminds where the whole evangelical lovey-dovey image of Jesus comes from. #churchasbrideofchrist#bethmoore
3/ So, why did White Evangelical’s pounce on a reference to crushing on Jesus that any one of us could find at ANY church Women’s conference? And why now? #bethmoore#loveydoveyjesus
4/ The same White “Christian” men who still support 2x impeached Trump, who bragged that he grabs women’s private parts, sided with actual Nazis in Charlottesville, and led a failed coup that killed 5 officers—are suddenly incensed that @BethMooreLPM has warm fuzzies for Jesus?
8/ At precisely the moment when the #FBI finds #topsecret nuclear docs stuffed in boxes in their guy’s basement they flash the shiny object! #bethmoore
11/ Think about this for one minute—literally one minute. Time yourself.
Trump stole top-secret nuclear docs and other state info. This is #treason. Our former President likely committed treason.
14/ Our democracy isn’t perfect, but it is OURS. It is also not guaranteed. It is vulnerable. Every pillar has been hacked at and hobbled over the past several years. Right now three things stand between us and ruin…
Seriously. We can put an end to this by electing people who will protect the rule of law, who want government to work, and who share the dream of the Beloved Community.
18/18 And, in the meantime, the most powerful thing you can do about White “evangelical” hacks trying to distract us from THEIR complicity in America’s downfall is show them your back. Turn to the stuff that matters and get it done.
If the impact of well-intentioned people following white supremacists is racial and gender oppression, then those followers are guilty of racial and gender oppression.
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1/ I recently spoke on the intersections of race/gender oppression in US. The very first RACE Law in the nation’s foundational history was passed in VA 1662. It was also the very first GENDER-based law and the first CITIZENSHIP law passed on this soil.
2/ That 1662 law created race-based slavery, by locating citizenship in the womb of the mother. Citizens could not be enslaved. So, if your mother was enslaved, she wasn’t a citizen and you were not a citizen. So, you could be enslaved. Plus, they outlawed interracial marriage.
3/ The 1662 law was in full force for 200+ years until passage of 13th and 14th Amendments, which ended race-based citizenship and outlawed slavery. Interracial marriage wasn’t legalized until the Loving v. Virginia (1967) Supreme Court ruling 305 years after VA’s 1662 race law.
Perhaps the violence displayed between #WillSmith and #ChrisRock at #Oscars2022 was “scarier than a Southern Baptist Convention” because it was an open display of the outcome of four centuries of violence by Southern Baptists on bodies, minds and souls of African descent.
It was #ChrisRock’s bow to white patriarchy by undercutting a sharp Black woman’s hair and calling her less than a woman in front of billions of people.
It was #ChrisRock’s choice to belittle a human being with a disability (alopecia). The roots of white supremacy do not consider the disabled human, therefore they are unprotected from humiliation.
“And so it is not surprising that Black people, who have had life, land, and labor stolen for generations disproportionately make up those who are impacted by violence.” 2/
- Jamila Hodge, @EJUSA
“And in thinking about the issue of safety, what we know is that safety is more than the absence of violence. It's the presence of community wellbeing; it is thriving communities." 3/ - Jamila Hodge, @EJUSA
In this e8, The Queen want to unite the Commonwealth to oppose Apartheid, but she must get the one holdout to sign on first—Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher won’t budge. 2/ #VotingRightsAct#thecrown
Round after round the Queen’s men bring her edited versions of the coalition’s statement. Each time she whips out her red pen sniping, “No. No. No.” 3/ #VotingRightsAct#thecrown