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Dr. F. Bruce Williams
@FBruceWilliams
Pastor, Bates Memorial. PhD Candidate. Author:You Can Have as Far as You Can See; Gideon: A Hero in the Making; Love Notes. Blessed husband, Proud Father. #BLM
Jun 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Perhaps you are watching 60 minutes. It’s about a place called Africa Town in Alabama. It was founded by slaves who were freed and afterwards built a thriving Black community. But typical of white racist systems that is America, the community was destroyed, dismantled and devastated by urban renewal and the blueprint of building an expressway through the middle of the community, a strategy that America has used for generations to destroy Black progress in Black communities. The white man who stole Africans and enslaved them in Alabama died but
Jan 8, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
It’s interesting that so many people are talking about the issue systemic racism & white supremacy like it’s a new phenomenon & a new discussion. This county’s foundation is racist. From the moment the architects of the nation purposely exterminated native Americans & kidnapped scores of Black people & subjected them to slavery to build it’s economy, while creating myths & legends & lies about America to justify her racist nature, this has been a racist nation. White supremacy & systemic racism is not new. It may seem new to those who are
Sep 26, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Just came from a protest tonight. Saw first hand how LMPD tried to purposely provoke peaceful demonstrators to react. It was downright criminal. Absolutely no reason for it. I saw everything, was out front and saw it all. It was a shameful attempt at intimidation and it has to stop. We were peacefully protesting and had been for a couple of hours. Then all of a sudden as we were returning to the Square we were blocked by a line of police cars and LMPD in riot gear. So we turned to go left down a street and we could see a line of LMPD
Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ok, seriously? Seriously. This is what you post in the wake of a devastating decision that impacts the lives of a Black family who’s loved one was tragically murdered by police, in her own home? This is what you post after the nation waited with baited breath hoping for justice for a Black family but said family was denied that justice by a nation where justice has been historically & routinely denied Black people? How callous, insensitive & aggressively self serving can you be? The young boy you are referencing has experienced something awful, no
Sep 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They did break a Ky law. Kenneth Walker shot at the police in defense of his home not Breonna Taylor. It’s against the law in Ky to kill an innocent third party even for police & even in self defense...which is difficult for police to claim in a carry state where a person has the right to defend their home against intruders. The police did not announce themselves. Cameron claimed they did based on one neighbors claim he heard the police (plain clothes by the way) announce who they were. But 11 other neighbors said they did not hear them announce
Sep 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I appreciate your response. My initial response had nothing to do with defending any political party. My response had to do with why the White Brother got his license taken away by a SBC church for endorsing a democratic candidate as opposed to why a Black preacher in an NBC church would not get his license taken away for endorsing a Republican candidate. I didn’t say he wouldn’t get any push back if he didn’t vote for Obama. My point would be that the push back would come from a different motivation. & that the context
Sep 14, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You do realize that there is no comparison, right. Your ancestors came at the end of WWI. Ours arrived in 1619. Your ancestors came voluntarily looking for a better life. Our ancestors were kidnapped & brought against their will. Your ancestors worked voluntarily. Our ancestors we slaves who were forced to work for almost 250 years. They were brutalized, sold, our children sold away from us, tortured, raped, lynched, castrated, whipped, hunted like dogs & brutalized. It was all legal. Then came segregation, more lynching, police brutality,
Sep 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today I didn’t see Bigfoot or Nessie but I just came from a peaceful, non violent protest of 3,000 today in LVille Ky. at the Ky Derby. Oh, they have pictures too... They like the label CRT because it’s a way for White folks to dismiss, disregard & discredit the reality of white supremacy & racism without having to face the the fact that it exists. White evangelical churches have picked up on this now & feel justified
Sep 2, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This Sis, @SadiqaReynolds is why I love the @LouisvilleUL ! I will be out there protesting with you all AGAIN on Saturday. I was speaking to some white men who are fast becoming new friends of mine. One of them said that their spouse who once was afraid to go past 9th Street is now afraid to come downtown because
of the violence. I understand that. But I asked whether they understood that none of the violence was because of peaceful protestors. Much of the violence has been against peaceful protestors by police
Aug 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Anarchy has never been the typical response of Black people to both the historical & present day terrorism & trauma experienced on a daily basis by Black people due to racism. But pointing toward anarchy is often used to marginalized where the focus should be: racism & white supremacy & how Black people suffer under it cruelty constantly. Black people are in a lot of pain, have been for centuries & are becoming increasingly weary of people moving that pain to margins & centering white fear or anarchy. Uprisings happen when real
Aug 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Thank you for this. I think it’s extremely important that white people know the level of brutality & terror white people inflicted on Black people in slavery, Jim Crow & even now. For 401 years we have had to endure this level horrendous treatment & White America wants us to “Get over it” with an apology & a joint worship service. & what’s so maddening is when the people whom we pay to protect & serve us hate us, fear us, or both & as a consequence, shoot us in the back 7 times point blank, there is this absurd discussion designed to imply that
Aug 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Both are important to God. Only people who don’t suffer from the system of racism have the luxury of pontificating about which one is more important. People who suffer think dismantling racist systems is important. God cares about both. That’s like saying what’s more important to God that the hungry get fed or that they know Jesus! Sometimes people can’t hear you tell them about Jesus because you seem too indifferent about the fact that they are suffering from hunger. It’s interesting that James says when we see the hungry feed them! That’s a priority
Aug 1, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This theology, as old and unoriginal as it is, is a theology that is the luxury of the privileged & is good news to the oppressor. It’s the same top down theological understanding of the gospel & the Kingdom of God that provided the theological underpinnings for the justification of slavery & the continued perpetuation of racism & white supremacy. It’s always convenient for those who benefit from the unholy arrangement of injustice to minimize the risky task of confronting that injustice while masses of people, including fellow Christians
Jul 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This couragrous woman, @SadiqaReynolds so eloquently expresses the hearts & minds of so many of us who have seen the “other” mayor, the one who did what his gut told him, who risked doing what is right. But lately we haven’t seen him & our expectations have been crushed & we have lost confidence. His actions have been bewildering to those of us who thought we knew him. Still, we cannot excuse those actions. People are dead, legitimate demands have been made by hurting, grieving masses of citizens. But the demands have been ignored and we are
Jul 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This incident is so absurd. The only thing more absurd is the dialogue on this thread where people are debating the finer points of the law as to whether she broke it or not. She’s 15 years old. She goes to school in a county where a disproportionate amount of black kids are incarcerated. She has a learning disability and she was put in detention for not doing her homework during an pandemic!!!! This is so clearly racism & it’s so exhausting and infuriating reading people deny that “race” has anything to do with what happened to her! Someone once
Jul 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” is a passionate and scorching rebuke of slavery in antebellum America. Delivered at an Independence Day celebration in 1852, Douglass exposes the shameful hypocrisy of American democracy which on the one hand Image declares that our creator endows all men with certain unalienable rights, among them being, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and further pledges freedom and justice for all, while on the other hand simultaneously denying the humanity of millions of
Jul 2, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It’s always interesting to me how people justify the racist attitudes and behavior of people in the past whom they hold in high esteem & make statues of to post in public squares, by saying that they couldn’t help it, they were people of their times. But what about the few other white people of their time who not only did not share their racist attitudes, but also actively fought against it and its racist nature? They prove that it is possible to live in a time and not reflect the racism of that time. Some of them even evolved over time and joined
Jul 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
She was a lot more accommodating than I would have been. Racism is arrogant and presumptuous. It believes it owns all spaces and places and has the right to arbitrarily police the movement of Black bodies. This is the nature and function of white supremacy. This white man is, by virtue of his behavior, a proponent and perpetuator of that system. He is one of the reasons why Black people are not safe anywhere. Within the system, he is a very real danger to Black people and until other white people wake up and challenge both the system and the
Jun 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
By the way, that’s not an accurate definition of racism. It’s useful as a definition of prejudice but not racism. Black People in America cannot be racist because racism is prejudice plus power! Black don’t suffer because of mere prejudice. We suffered because of prejudice plus power. It’s called racism and white supremacy. It’s not just personal, it’s institutional and systemic. White racism in America is baked into the system, a system that, based on policies, practices, procedures, & legislation favors White people over Black people solely on the
Jun 20, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Fathers, these are times when you can really make a powerful impact on your children. Explain to them the nature of the protests and demonstrations and why they are pertinent. If you can, I believe in taking your children with you if you participate in demonstrations. I’ve been participating in demonstrations since college and I saw newspaper clippings of my father demonstrating for justice when I was young. Not only have I participated in demonstrations with my children, I have participated in demonstrations that my children organized in
Jun 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I know, right?! Perpetuators of White racist theology in Black face. White institutions like the one I referenced were not there during slavery but benefit from the system of racism and white supremacy built on the backs of those slaves and they’ve got the nerve to simply say “I’m sorry” but still keep the stolen goods. That aint repentance. If there is no sense of obligation then why apologize in the first place? Again, cheap Grace. And these Black Brothers are so immersed in white theology that they are their own worse enemies. Theology from