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This statement worries me. I don’t think Jarel Robinson-Brown’s deleted tweet was carefully phrased, but it is being widely misconstrued and used to attack him in ways that are racist & homophobic. This 
feels heavy-handed & risks lending legitimacy to those attacks. 1/ https://twitter.com/dioceseoflondon/status/1357286048078954497
feels heavy-handed & risks lending legitimacy to those attacks. 1/ https://twitter.com/dioceseoflondon/status/1357286048078954497
As I read it, Jarel’s tweet was respectful toward Capt Ton Moore, his character, his achievements. It wasn’t careful enough in specifying the object of the concern, IMO. But that issue has been overtaken by the avalanche of racism & homophobia toward him on here. 2/
I think a lot of people celebrating and commemorating Capt Tom Moore found him, as I do, inspirational & a cause of hope and good heart & pride, & that feeling itself isn’t white nationalism. I don’t take them (us) to be the object of Jarel’s concern, as I understand it. 3/
4/ I take him to be worried about the manipulation of that deep and widespread admiration for Capt Tom Moore by a government which seeks, in part, to appeal to racist anti-black sentiments & anxieties centred around a sense of white supremacy.
That isn’t a manifestation of racism in his part. Nor is it anti-white people. Nor is it contrary to his Christian profession or vocation; it is an expression of both. 5/
A lot of the pushback I have seen on here singles out his blackness. Some of it singles out his sexuality. These are aspects of his identity and experience on which he has written and spoken eloquently & prophetically. I have learnt from him and hope to continue doing so. 6/
I would urge @dioceseoflondon to consider carefully the proportionality of their actions & the need to protect their priest, their brother and mine. 7/7
