A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches
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Herbert77060
Texas Southern University
Read as much of this bullshit as I could without throwing my android pad at the wall. How long will we let people piss in our faces and tell us it is rain?
In the immortal words of Richard Pryor, "How long?!?"
They have made us ashamed of being Black and ashamed of how we worship and we flocked to their "churches" only to be pissed on and told to take it.
These people have never been our salvation and never will be our salvation and no matter how many of them you sit next to in "worship" you are still a n****r.
In the immortal words of Richard Pryor, "How long?!?"
They have made us ashamed of being Black and ashamed of how we worship and we flocked to their "churches" only to be pissed on and told to take it.
These people have never been our salvation and never will be our salvation and no matter how many of them you sit next to in "worship" you are still a n****r.
@Herbert77060. Yes that was a long read. I felt the same way you did. I have been to a couple of majority white churches, but I just never felt comfortable in that environment.
PQUE
Atomik Dogg
As long as the checks keep clearing they are are the good n***rs
Some Black folks will follow white folks anywhere. For example, following Jim Jones to Jonestown, Guyana. (When the place was named Jonestown, that should have been a red flag right there). But anyway...
The Mormons and Scientology, are two other churches that I do not understand why any Black person would want to join, but they do. Its their choice. I would not join either one, but, hey....what can I say.
The sad thing about it, blacks were never welcomed in these white churches, they were just tolerated with a fake smile and given the collection plate.
True. +1
The Founder
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First, this Pruitt lady is lacking faith and is searching for God through people. For example, she left her "normal" way of praising God to go to a more conventional manner.
Then she decided to join a majority white church who basically treated her as as mascot rather than a member.
Simply put...I don't understand why we as black people have to conform when it took, assassinations, lynchings, and murders to change the Jim Crow laws. When white people ask me why I feel a certain way about police and society I show them this picture which sums up how I feel about them:
How many people on this picture went to church on Sunday and never asked for forgiveness.
Then she decided to join a majority white church who basically treated her as as mascot rather than a member.
Simply put...I don't understand why we as black people have to conform when it took, assassinations, lynchings, and murders to change the Jim Crow laws. When white people ask me why I feel a certain way about police and society I show them this picture which sums up how I feel about them:
How many people on this picture went to church on Sunday and never asked for forgiveness.
Herbert77060
Texas Southern University
Can you say ALL OF THEM?!?First, this Pruitt lady is lacking faith and is searching for God through people. For example, she left her "normal" way of praising God to go to a more conventional manner.
Then she decided to join a majority white church who basically treated her as as mascot rather than a member.
Simply put...I don't understand why we as black people have to conform when it took, assassinations, lynchings, and murders to change the Jim Crow laws. When white people ask me why I feel a certain way about police and society I show them this picture which sums up how I feel about them:
How many people on this picture went to church on Sunday and never asked for forgiveness.
Storm96
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In addition to moving to Mr. Charlie's neighborhoods, attending his schools etc
The Founder
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People ask me all the time why am I building my house in Grambling and why do I see my son to Lincoln Prep. I'm building my home in Grambling because living around white people makes me uncomfortable. I send my son to Lincoln Prep because I am not placing him in the hands of the devil.
I lived down the road apiece from that main campus of gateway chuch off 114. My work venues are still in the area so I'm in that area every so often. When I lived there, I cannot name not ONE colored person I interacted w/ that lived there as I stayed to myself 1000% of the time, and that includes those neighbors - never knew their names, I'd only half-assed throw up a dead-fished wave to them every so often if I was outside doing yard work. The coloreds in that area are a differing breed, imho, and I only noted them @ a few of the local football games or in grocery stores. Outside of M-F working and staying in that area, one could find me every single Sat/Sun off Ledbetter/loop 12/Illinois lol.
The Founder
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@Bewildered It's crazy bruh. Folks think the best thing is white folks.
This is a decently complex animal to deal w/, Found. It starts w/ the programming that incurs and flourishes in one's life. I cannot speak too negatively because I was once programmed all too well. The programming is easy when A) you're in that predominant environment DAILY and B) your home support structure is W-E-A-K and doesn't give one enough information to cause one's individual awareness meter to be functional smh .
For me, I had to learn it all the hard way through trial, error, recognition, and then assessment. As I've returned to the home area, it's the coloreds who ironically cannot deal w/ me and my "east coast acquired Malcolm X belligerence," as my own mother put it. lol Naw, I don't have belligerence; I have awareness, comprehension, and understanding to call wrong, wrong.
The Founder
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Tell me about it....as I change spiritually I am beginning to more and more focus on what is right and not care how a person feels about me. My wife often says "My husband is an asshole. He is going to tell you how he feels and the truth period."
I had her laughing when I told her "I don't care about burning a bridge if I'm right....fuck it build another." LOL
unknown1
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If it's Christianity, isn't it basically all the same whether the church is black or white?
J C
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No!
chocalate_topaz
I wanna be your lover...
When I was small, we lived in Blacksburg VA while my dad finished his doctorate at VA Tech. There were 3 black families in our housing apartment complex...I think 10 black kids at school. We joined a white UMC, my dad song in the choir.....I can't say I've been to a white church since we left 30 years ago...must be something I felt or saw that left me never wanting to cross their doors.
The Founder
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As children we see things and block them out of our mind. Yet, subconsciously it is still there and part of our brain is responding to it.
Herbert77060
Texas Southern University
If you change too much spiritually you may find yourself un-deaconed.
Herbert77060
Texas Southern University
you know why there is an AME Church, right? The UMC wanted the Black "members" to sit in the balcony and not among the general congregation.
The Founder
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You misunderstood my statement....changing spiritually for the better. I am more inclined to not give a crap what a person thinks about me when I know I am doing something right. If I burn a bridge because I am doing what is right....cool...I just build another one...
See being a Christian is hard. Yet, being fair and right is easy.
Herbert77060
Texas Southern University
No I didn't....I understood exactly what you meant. Just remember my words.