White fear and fragility will be the death of us all

[Tiger1]

MONTREAT, N.C. – Anthea Butler, a university professor and a person of color, did not want to come to Montreat Conference Center a few weeks before the presidential election and talk to a bunch of white folks about race.

Butler is an associate professor of religious studies and Africana studies and graduate chair of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her lived reality as a black person is this: “We don’t have humanity in this country. We don’t have personhood,” but exist in a reality of “blood and death and words shouted at us,” and the prospect of Donald Trump being elected president.

https://pres-outlook.org/2016/10/white-fear-fragility-will-death-us/

 

[The Founder]

THIS

If she’s approached by a police officer on the street, her education and good job won’t matter. “If I don’t comply I might be dead. If I comply I might be dead.”

Churches fail “when they are too involved in looks and not in substance,” she said. And churches present “a horrible witness. You say you love everybody, but you don’t.”

 

[Tiger1]

I had to send this article to my friends. She was speaking truth to power.

Straight with no chaser!

 

[AHL12]

She is something and I understand how tired and weary her soul is... it is hard living black in America.