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One I’ll never forget, ever:
I was dating a white passing Latinx woman in college. Her parents quickly began “the discomfort with her choices” campaign.
It eventually blossomed into a full fledged my daughter isn’t dating black people. https://twitter.com/joshuakissi/status/1324716448649011200
I was dating a white passing Latinx woman in college. Her parents quickly began “the discomfort with her choices” campaign.
It eventually blossomed into a full fledged my daughter isn’t dating black people. https://twitter.com/joshuakissi/status/1324716448649011200
The two parts that always cut deep into me to this day:
1) When we were just friends, we went to church together with her parents whenever they would visit. We would lock arms and praise the lord together.
1) When we were just friends, we went to church together with her parents whenever they would visit. We would lock arms and praise the lord together.
2) when she was struggling with her parents blatant racism she brought it up to her Bible study in college.
And the leader said, “well the Bible says you need to honor your mother and father.” And counseled her to take heed of their wisdom.
And the leader said, “well the Bible says you need to honor your mother and father.” And counseled her to take heed of their wisdom.
This one always ALWAYS makes my blood boil.
It’s the intersection of “racism will die off with older people” and “we are all children of God” together to form one great lie.
I feel like I lost the sense of peace I had in church. I couldn’t trust the people around me.
It’s the intersection of “racism will die off with older people” and “we are all children of God” together to form one great lie.
I feel like I lost the sense of peace I had in church. I couldn’t trust the people around me.
. @RayNeutron and I talk about it a lot. The idea that multi ethnic churches rooted in whiteness are simply trying to find converts of other races to indoctrinate and validate their vision of godliness to be the southern Baptist/king James flow.
Here are a few more quick ones:
Got my license. First drive ever was to the church carwash to raise money to go to summer camp.
Driving myself and an afrolatinx man home afterward. We get 500 feet out of the parking lot and the police stop me to say I fit a description.
Got my license. First drive ever was to the church carwash to raise money to go to summer camp.
Driving myself and an afrolatinx man home afterward. We get 500 feet out of the parking lot and the police stop me to say I fit a description.
They said they saw me change my shirt and found that suspicious because !??.
I had to sit there pulled over, next to where I just was volunteering on my first drive. Humiliated.
16 years olddd
I had to sit there pulled over, next to where I just was volunteering on my first drive. Humiliated.
16 years olddd
The people I’ve told that story to that weren’t black and went to church with me have done a great job invalidating my experience.
