#Black Pastors

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Coming up in the Black and largely Protestant City of Detroit, it felt like a revolutionary act to abandon the church and organized religion as I did as a teenager in the mid-1990s. But I had little recourse: As soon as I developed some adult-adjacent sense, I looked around and realized that the milk was sour throughout the institution. I watched with disdain as Black pastors and church leaders fomented hatred toward the LGBTQ community while also rolling around in chromed-out Benzes on the precious dimes of their poor congregants. But folks weren’t trying to hear my gripes…the “chosen ones” of Christ wore armor that my opinions could never hope to penetrate. But it seems like a tide is shifting of late: Black pastors aren’t receiving the same degree of love and respect that they historically have from the Black community. See Exhibit A: Bishop T.D. Jakes. The Dallas-based pastor had the Worst Last Week Ever thanks to the one-two punch that saw him on the short list of “powerful” mystery men whom Christian Keyes alleges sexually harassed him and separate allegations that he engaged in sexual relations with men at Diddy’s parties. Jakes addressed the Diddy rumors, once in a Dec. 22 comment from his representatives and again during a Christmas Eve sermon, during which he let folks know that they can “log off” if they came to hear him “address a lie.” But…then he went on to address it. We didn’t have to log off after all. Powered by the “amens” and the “yes lawds” of his congregation, Jakes insisted that he “knows who I am” and is not here to “convince nobody.” He even turned on a cracked, teary voice to let his parishioners know just how upset this whole affair has made him and as several Tiktokers pointed out ...used fear tactic language to suggest that he was standing in place to protect all of them from this foolishness.

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That last, that he's protecting them, is taken straight from Trump's current play book. Protecting them from what exactly? Accusations that they had sex with members of the same sex at parties attended by lots of rich people?

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White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting and blowtorching their victims.

Their violence was widespread but not indiscriminate: About 3,300 of the lynched were black, according to the most recent count by sociologists Charles Seguin and David Rigby. The remaining dead were white, Mexican, of Mexican descent, Native American, Chinese or Japanese.

Such numbers, based on verifiable newspaper reports, represent a minimum. The full human toll of racial lynching may remain ever beyond reach.

Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people.

Sometimes, the victim was a pastor.

Buttressing white supremacy

When considering American racial terror, the first question to answer is not how a lynch mob could kill a man of the cloth but why white lynch mobs killed at all.

The typical answer from Southern apologists was that only black men who raped white women were targeted. In this view, lynching was “popular justice” – the response of an aggrieved community to a heinous crime. A white lynch mob in Shelbyville, Tennessee, in 1941. Bettmann via Getty

Journalists like Ida B. Wells and early sociologists like Monroe Work saw through that smokescreen, finding that only about 20% to 25% of lynching victims were alleged rapists. About 3% were women. Some were children.

Black people were lynched for murder or assault, or on suspicion that they committed those crimes. They could also be lynched for looking at a white woman or for bumping the shoulder of a white woman. Some were killed for being near or related to someone accused of the aforementioned offenses.

Identifying the dead is supremely difficult work. As sociologists Amy Kate Bailey and Stewart Tolnay argue persuasively in their 2015 book “Lynched,” very little is known about lynching victims beyond their gender and race.

But by cross-referencing news reports with census data, scholars and civil rights organizations are uncovering more details.

One might expect that mobs seeking to destabilize the black community would focus on the successful and the influential – people like preachers or prominent business owners.

Instead, lynching disproportionately targeted lower-status black people – individuals society would not protect, like the agricultural worker Sam Hose of Georgia and men like Henry Smith, a Texas handyman accused of raping and killing a three-year-old girl. The National Memorial For Peace And Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, commemorates the victims of lynching. Bob Miller/Getty Images

The rope and the pyre snuffed out primarily the socially marginal: the unemployed, the unmarried, the precarious – often not the prominent – who expressed any discontentment with racial caste.

That’s because lynching was a form of social control. By killing workers with few connections who could be economically replaced – and doing so in brutal, public ways that struck terror into black communities – lynching kept white supremacy on track.

Fight from the front lines

So black ministers weren’t often lynching victims, but they could be targeted if they got in the way.

I.T. Burgess, a preacher in Putnam County, Florida, was hanged in 1894 after being accused of planning to instigate a revolt, according to a May 30, 1894, story in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. Later that year, in December, the Constitution also reported, Lucius Turner, a preacher near West Point, Georgia, was shot by two brothers for apparently writing an insulting note to their sister.

Ida B. Wells wrote in her 1895 editorial “A Red Record” about Reverend King, a minister in Paris, Texas, who was beaten with a Winchester Rifle and placed on a train out of town. His offense, he said, was being the only person in Lamar County to speak against the horrific 1893 lynching of the handyman Henry Smith.

In each of these cases, the victim’s profession was ancillary to their lynching. But preaching was not incidental to black pastors’ resistance to lynching.

My dissertation research shows black pastors across the U.S. spoke out against racial violence during its worst period, despite the clear danger that it put them in. Ida B. Wells, the great documentarian of the lynching era, in 1920. Chicago History Museum/Getty Images

Many, like the Washington, D.C., Presbyterian pastor Francis Grimke, preached to their congregations about racial violence. Grimke argued for comprehensive anti-racist education as a way to undermine the narratives that led to lynching.

Other pastors wrote furiously about anti-black violence.

Charles Price Jones, the founder of the Church of God (Holiness) in Mississippi, for example, wrote poetry affirming the African heritage of black Americans. Sutton Griggs, a black Baptist pastor from Texas, wrote novels that were, in reality, thinly veiled political treatises. Pastors wrote articles against lynching in their own denominational newspapers.

By any means necessary

Some white pastors decried racial terror, too. But others used the pulpit to instigate violence.

On June 21, 1903, the white pastor of Olivet Presbyterian church in Delaware used his religious leadership to incite a lynching.

Preaching to a crowd of 3,000 gathered in downtown Wilmington, Reverend Robert A. Elwood urged the jury in the trial of George White – a black farm laborer accused of raping and killing a 17-year-old white girl, Helen Bishop – to pronounce White guilty speedily.

Otherwise, Elwood continued, according to a June 23, 1903 New York Times article, White should be lynched. He cited the Biblical text 1 Corinthians 5:13, which orders Christians to “expel the wicked person from among you.”

“The responsibility for lynching would be yours for delaying the execution of the law,” Elwood thundered, exhorting the jury.

George White was dragged out of jail the next day, bound and burned alive in front of 2,000 people.

The following Sunday, a black pastor named Montrose W. Thornton discussed the week’s barbarities with his own congregation in Wilmington. He urged self-defense.

“There is but one part left for the persecuted negro when charged with crime and when innocent. Be a law unto yourself,” he told his parishioners. “Die in your tracks, perhaps drinking the blood of your pursuer.”

Newspapers around the country denounced both sermons. An editorial in the Washington Star said both pastors had “contributed to the worst passions of the mob.”

By inciting lynching and advocating for self defense, the editors judged, Elwood and Thornton had “brought the pulpit into disrepute.”

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Breaking the Left's Deception of Black Americans

Breaking the Left’s Deception of Black Americans

  With earbuds in my ears and wired to my phone, I listen to national Christian broadcasts during my daily walk. Back to back, I heard two black pastors with large congregations. It was stunning hearing how clueless both men were regarding the truth of various political issues.

Both pastors parroted Democrats’ and fake news media’s lies in their sermons. Between the two, they rebuked Republicans…

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Black Leaders Who Paid Visit To The White House May See Payoff With New Sentencing Bill

Black Leaders Who Paid Visit To The White House May See Payoff With New Sentencing Bill

Last summer when several black conservative pastors paid a visit to the white house, members of the black community were skeptical of their actual intentions. A rare deal in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing laws passed recently, some say this was able to happen based on the alliance that was forged between trump and black leaders, lawmakers, and pastors.

The reform could be a path for…

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My take: A "HOT" blog letter here for all those represented to meet with 45 without doing the homework.

My take: A “HOT” blog letter here for all those represented to meet with 45 without doing the homework.

For everyone that was hot mad after seeing the footage of the Black Pastors and Bishops with Trump, guess what: you should be.

By the way, it’s more like a statement here than a blog letter.

You should be pissed, angry, mad as hell, and every negated feeling in your body that the church leaders you followed or supported all this time met with a president that does not care enough about the black…

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Black Pastor Says Trump Is “Most Pro-Black President…In Our Lifetime”

Black Pastor Says Trump Is “Most Pro-Black President…In Our Lifetime” by @indiesentinel

During a roundtable discussion Wednesday at the White House about prison reform, Pastor Darrel Scott praised the President as the “most pro-Black president we’ve had in our lifetime.” Pastor Scott serves on National Diversity Coalition for Trump and served on his transition team.

“To be honest, this is probably going to be the — and I’m going to say this at this table — the most pro-black…

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WHOA! Black pastor says POTUS Trump 'is most PRO-black president' ever!

WHOA! Black pastor says POTUS Trump ‘is most PRO-black president’ ever!

United States President Donald J. Trump prays during a meeting with inner city pastors in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Credit: Oliver Contreras / Pool via CNP | usage worldwide (Newscom TagID: dpaphotosthree435346.jpg) [Photo via Newscom](National Sentinel) Not a Racist: When Donald Trump came down the escalator in Trump Tower NYC, announced his bid for…

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Mobutu Syndrome: White Privilege Over a Black Community is a Threat to Our Democracy

Mobutu Syndrome: White Privilege Over a Black Community is a Threat to Our Democracy

Historically, tyrants have tended to be insecure and to try to maintain their power through perverting or distorting policy or allow appointees to be oppressive. What we see in the current Mount Vernon administration is unbroken accountability to the people through the framework the City Charter departmental policies and capitalistic control of politicians who have sworn to govern fairly and…

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Scratching my head all this time: The Midsummer almost back to school version.

Long time ago, I usually say that “August Really Sucks.” I think I say this because that’s when you get the feeling of school is coming. The 2018-19 year is about to start up. BUT….with all what’s going on with Trump messing up the game, a black Milwaukee Radio Station Segment gone, more of the Becky’s of calling the cops being crazy, Harley-Davidson turning 115 in all: I’m scratching my head agai

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Black pastors supporting Jeff Session. A fact you won't hear from mainstream media.

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Black Pastors Breaking The Law To Help Hillary Get Elected

Black Pastors Breaking The Law To Help Hillary Get Elected

  If it were white pastors supporting Trump there would be an uproar and the IRS would probably do something about it. But black pastors supporting Hillary… no big deal��

  The Atlantic:

It is illegal for clergy to support or oppose political candidates from the pulpit. Houses of worship can host candidate forums and voter-registration drives; pastors and rabbis and imams can even bend the rules a…

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AFRICANGLOBE – A group of Black pastors asserted that in order to change the alleged impoverished, crime-stricken cultures in America’s inner cities, more emphasis needs to be placed on responsibility, education and entrepreneurship instead of blaming the police for problems facing troubled Black Americans. “We are tired of hearing the police blamed as if all the problems of the inner city are the result of police misconduct. We know that is not true, yet that gets all the attention,” Jackson said. “We are tired of hearing that everything is a problem of race”.

http://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/black-pastors-black-lives-matter-demonic-shameful-tragic/