TGC Purity Tested - #WokeChurch's Racism

A Lighthearted Start and a Meme About Jackie Hill Perry

Well, probably a short video today because I'm gonna feel a little bit under the weather. Um, but yesterday morning my brother, uh sent me this Meme here. Is this count as a meme? Is this a meme? Or like is this an info?

What is this? Anyway, I don't I don't like these things where they put a quote and then they've got like a inspirational picture. I guess you could call this an inspirational picture. But anyway, he sent me this and it's a jackie hill perry quote.

Choose to love even when you don't feel like it. Obedience often precedes affection. That's a good quote. I kind of like that quote. I think it's kind of true too. You know loving someone is a choice and you know, sometimes you don't feel like you love someone but when you do it anyway.

Well, you know you'll grow to to have the emotion as well. I think that's a pretty good quote. My brother sent it to me though. Not because he thought it was inspirational but because he saw that. There's a white lady in this picture.

Yet the the quote is from jackie hill perry who is black and he said that this is going to be trouble. This is gonna be trouble. That's what he said. And lo and behold, so, you know, so I went to it and I commented.

Accusations of Cultural Appropriation and Racism

How dare you appropriate jackie's quote? What a bunch of racists and this is a man is a joke. Obviously I even I even haha'd my own comment there anyway then if you look. If you look at this, of course.

People are why didn't you use a picture of jackie hill perry? It's rather confusing and jarring to have a picture of some random person. And then, you know, some people are defending it here. Oh, I don't think jackie's concerned with it and then this person.

Why did you choose a white woman? Why not at least a woman of color? Oh my goodness gracious. This there's one that I really wanted to find out. Hold on. Okay, and this is an example of according to this lady of of ignoring Marginalizing women of color by using a white woman in this quote.

Uh, let's see. What else we got here. There was a good one that I I really wanted to. Where was it? Oh, I don't know. I I don't want to spend too much time looking for this. This is so funny. But this is but this is what's hilarious about this is that gospel coalition does this every single day literally every day.

They'll put a quote and then they'll have a picture of someone in it. That's not the person who said the quote. This is something that they do all the time. But now all of a sudden it's a it's a marginalization.

So if they if they if they had a picture of a black guy and a white person, that wouldn't be marginalization. I'm sorry. If they had a quote from a black guy or a picture of a black guy and a quote from a white person that wouldn't Be a marginalization, but when you reverse it, it's an example of racism and it's just too funny.

The one comment I wanted to oh, where is it? It was just somebody who said this is just a average white girl or something like that. It was just so racist. But anyway, I thought this was really funny.

Microaggressions, Wokeness, and the Weaponization of Offense

And this is a good example of the fact that you'll never be pure enough for these people. You'll never ever be pure enough for these people. Don't try to placate the woke. Seriously, don't try. Don't try to please the woke social justice warrior type of a person because they will find fault in literally anything.

That's what microaggressions is all about. It's all about finding fault where there is no fault. So if you say to like this, this is a literal example of a microaggression if you say to a black woman Hey, I really like your hair.

That's it's it's a compliment obviously, but uh, they're gonna take some some crazies the woke I'm talking about the woke not not every black lady's woke, you know what I mean? Some black ladies will just take that as a compliment and say thank you very much.

But then there's a small segment that'll be like, oh, that's a what are you trying to say? My hair's not supposed to be nice. What are you trying to say by that? Like that that's a literal example that I've heard of a microaggression telling a black person that their hair is nice.

Um, that's a that's a microaggression for some people. Again, don't look don't hold all us minorities accountable for that kind of stuff. If you say that I have a nice accent or if you say that I have nice hair.

Or if you say that I you know, i'm really smart i'm gonna take that as a compliment most normals. Normies will take that as a compliment. If you tell a black person a normal black person. I like your hair.

They're gonna take that as a compliment. Just it's just it's just the crazies that that decide that they're gonna make an insult out of everything. So don't hold us all accountable for that. We all aren't as crazy as that.

Eric Mason, Woke Ideology, and Ephesians 5:14

But anyway, so this is the this is the uh, Funny thing I wanted to talk about today. The sad thing I wanted to talk about today is this. This is a facebook post from dr. Eric mason from december 22nd and I retweeted this yesterday and I said that dr Eric mason's a racist and that he I I think that he fights against his racism.

So I give him a lot of credit for that because you know, it's sometimes it's very hard to acknowledge the fact that you're racist. And fight against it, but dr. Eric mason is a racist and he's and it comes out All not all the time, but but regularly it comes out his racism.

I did the video about his uh, Erlc mlk 50 speech where he says racist things on the stage openly and nobody rebukes him for it because I don't know. I mean i'm not sure why they don't. But here's a here's something from eric mason that I wanted to just read to you and um here.

Let's just take a look at this. He says believers aren't truly awakened if we are held hostage by evangelical captivity to western culture. Being woke is rooted for me in ephesians 5 14 and understanding the history of christianity in north america.

Ephesians 5 14 if you don't know is the passage that says awake. Oh sleeper. That's where he gets woke church from. That is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. But hey, you know, i've heard a lot of dumb things this week.

Uh, so he says so if evangelicalism is held captivity into western culture, but he understands christianity in north america. So therefore that's what being woke is all about. It's also about being a waco sleeper that passage which is ridiculous isa jesus, whatever um.

So that's fine. He says if you critique woke ideology without engaging black dignity you are cooning. So he's talking about black people and other minorities who he would say they criticize woke ideology.

And but at the same time they don't engage black dignity whatever that means because i'm not sure I know a single black person. Or minority of any kind that doesn't acknowledge black dignity. But he says if you don't you're cooning now, I don't know what he defines as not engaging with black dignity.

I would imagine that means not being woke yourself. So in other words, if you're not woke and you're black you're coon. That's what dr. Eric mason said and that's actually what he said in his mlk 50 speech as well.

He didn't use the word coon, but he described what a coon is. He said it's someone that's white on the inside black on the outside. That's a racist thing to believe that that there's this white idea white mentality in this black mentality.

And if you don't act black, then you're actually white on the inside and as if that's an insult first of all. So this it insults white people as if being an anglo isn't is is something to to not want to be so that's insults.

It insults white people, but it also insults black people who they're supposed to act a certain way. Otherwise, they're not really black or minority like me a latino like me if I don't act a certain way.

I'm not really latino. Eric, mason's a racist and it came out here. He's a racist against white people and also Certain segments of black and latinos and things like that as well um but again, here's the thing this is this is another just sort of.

Black Dignity, North African Christianity, and Titus 3

If you don't agree with me, you're ignorant kind of thing. Like look you don't understand the history of christianity in north. Are you serious? I mean, are you really are you serious? You know. The history of christianity in north africa is one of the first things that I knew about church history.

When I came to christ one of the first things I knew about augustine and and and and and early christianity in north africa before I knew about the reformation in a lot of ways. All right, here's where it gets real stupid.

If you're critiquing woke ideology, but you aren't serving the black and african diaspora needs based on titus 3. I can't hear you. He can't hear you if you're not if you're not serving the needs and i'm assuming this means according to the how the way he Serves it because uh, we've uh, the church has been serving the needs of people in africa and the african diaspora.

For years decades decades, but but apparently I guess probably if you don't vote democrat, you're not really serving their needs. I can't hear you. If you critique this from a white space, I can't hear you at all.

What in the world is that supposed to mean? If I if you critique woke ideology from a white space, let me take a drink because that's my drinking game. I can't hear you at all. What's a white space? Dr. Eric mason Is a white skin.

I don't think that's what he means. I think what he means is churches with predominantly white people. So you can't criticize woke ideology from a church with the predominantly white people. This is a racist statement.

Dr. Eric mason is a racist now again, I think he fights against it. In fact, if you want to see why I think that watch his speech at the mlk50 thing. He talks about his prejudice. He talks about his racism and says that he can't let bitterness towards white people take over.

I commend him for that not not being willing to let his bitterness take over. But I think you need to maybe think about what you tweet and think about what you put on facebook before you do it. Because your racism and your prejudice does take over sometimes.

Caiaphas, Prophecy, and Following the World on Race and Injustice

This is the last sentence he says even caiaphas prophesied without knowing it and this woke culture is doing the same. Better than the church on race and injustice. We gotta out prophesy the lost. What eric mason is saying here is that the woke culture not the woke church talk?

He's talking about regular folks like like pagan woke people. They're actually doing they're prophesying the words of god better than the church on race and injustice. So what we need to do is copy the world that's what he's saying here.

Caiaphas prophesied without knowing it and he's saying the woke culture uh. Hip-hop culture money cash hoes big pimping. They're they're prophesying better than the church on race and injustice. We got to follow them.

This is literally Dr. Eric mason superstar of the evangelical intelligentsia woke church author. This is him saying you need to follow the world on race and injustice. You need to follow the world. They've got it right the church got it wrong.

Dr. eric mason is not only a racist but he's also a scripture twister and he's dangerous to the church. I urge you brothers if you're watching this video and you know. You see this you see it you see these things the way I do and you see this kind of stuff.

And you haven't spoken out on this stuff yet. I urge you to do it man. I know it might cost you. They they're they're fine. Dr. Eric mason and matt chandler. They're they're fond of saying how much this is gonna cost them.

This isn't gonna cost eric anything eric will get more speaking opportunities. He'll get more book deals for saying nonsense like this. It will cost you to speak out against this. It will cost you to speak out against this and I urge you you see if you see this racism for what it is.

If you see this scripture twisting this ridiculous use of scripture passages a wake go sleeper. Oh, yeah, that's woke church. If you see this for what it is follow the world they're doing a better job than the church here.

A Nuanced Reply on Calling Out Racism and Softening Rebukes

I urge you to speak out about it. Anyway, I hope this was helpful. God bless. You know somebody on twitter saw my uh Retweet of this eric mason thing and he and he agreed that what eric mason was saying was was Ridiculous and stupid and awful and racist, but he didn't agree with me calling him a racist.

He said that it would be more honoring to god or more loving. Uh to eric mason to say well. This was a racist statement and I know he fights against it. But this was off the pail and I don't agree with that.

I think that um, and here's here's the thing. Here's the thing it all depends on the context, right? Like if you're talking with a brother that you know, uh, and uh,. Or even someone you don't know and you just met them and you hear them say a racist statement yeah, I think it might be wise to soften your Your rebuke a little bit say hey, man, that's kind of racist dude like or hey, that's that's not quite right.

That sounds very prejudiced or very bitter towards white people. Like I think that when you first meet someone like and you don't know them very well. You don't know their history. You don't know what they all what they say all the time.

It's okay to soften things like that. But for a guy like eric mason, this is a guy with a big platform. This is a guy who speaks all the time who said this kind of thing often. And he gets a big platform and he has book deals and he has conference speaking.

You know what? Sometimes you just need to call it what it is. And I don't think it's loving to the church of jesus christ and I don't think it's loving to dr Eric, mason to soften what it is that he's doing.

He's promoting racist doctrines dangerous bitter prejudiced Unchristian doctrines and so I don't think it's necessarily loving to try to soften that I think that the church is Is expert at softening things that they shouldn't soften and again I'm, not saying that you have to if somebody says something Crazy that you know that you have to call them a racist like the first thing in the no.

You don't if it's it depends on the context. Dr Eric, mason's different than you know, someone else that you see online that's saying similar things. You don't have to just call, you know, if you don't know someone's a racist don't call someone a racist.

But dr. Eric mason, I think he kind of admits it in his speech. But also he says this kind of stuff all the time. This is racist and dr Eric mason is a racist now. I think he's a repentant racist I think and i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt because I didn't i've heard him speak about his prejudice.

So That's the reality. So so in any case in any case, that's what I think about that I I don't think it's loving sometimes it depends on the context but to soften things I don't think is very loving to the body of christ or even the person that's here's the other thing, too I wanted to say before we finish.

Racial Reconciliation, the Church, and Trusting the Holy Spirit

These are the people dr. Eric mason's one of the people out there that's saying that he knows about racial reconciliation. You should follow him and he's telling you to follow the pagans, right? He's telling you to follow the pagans because they're prophesying better than the churches.

They don't have the scripture. They don't have the word of god, but yet somehow they're prophesying better than the church the church. This is a man who's criticized people who say you know when when you're at the table the lord's supper.

Your ethnicity doesn't have anything to do with it. Your unity is in christ and he's criticizing that said well, that's wrong. That's racist theology. That's what dr Eric mason this guy's saying that stuff what you know, your unity is in christ not in your ethnicity.

That's wrong, but know that the hip-hop culture money cash flows. They got it, right? This is the man who wants you to follow him into racial reconciliation to racial unity. I say that if you follow this man, you're crazy.

You're crazy. The other thing is there's a lot of people out there that would say that you should follow them, you know matt chandler's another one of these guys who thinks he's got this right white privilege and all this stuff and all you got to do is is is look at these people's churches and you'll find that the They preach racial diversity and things like that, but they don't have it.

They don't they don't practice what they preach and here's the thing i'm over here saying look. We gotta we gotta put this stuff aside. This stuff is not the right focus. There's no such thing as racial reconciliation because race isn't a thing.

We've got the race of adam the race of christ. I'm preaching this stuff from the bible I'm talking what the scriptures say. And if you look at my church, we are ethnically diverse and it's not because I have this great plan.

You shouldn't follow my plan for racial diversity because that's I didn't set out to get racial diversity. All I set out to do is to preach the bible and you know what the holy spirit did. The holy spirit brought racial diversity to our church.

On his own accord. I didn't go for I wasn't doing anything intentional. I was just preaching the bible my co-elder who's a white man was just preaching the bible and all of a sudden We've got racial diversity at our church.

You see what i'm saying? We have a small church. So it's not a big deal like five six families, you know what I mean? Um, but the holy spirit brings the diversity that he wants into your church so If anyone tells you they've got this super secret plan for racial diversity and then they're saying well, you follow the world.

They've got it. Right kyphus preached prophesied without knowing it. Hip-hop jay-z's doing it, too I urge you man. That is as crazy as it sounds. There's no secret sauce here. You preach the bible you preach Discipleship you preach to people to obey everything christ commands and the holy spirit will bring together who he wants to bring together in The church whatever happened to trusting the holy spirit.

Anyway, I hope this is helpful. God bless.