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[THREAD] Y'all.
The words of WISDOM shared in the IG Live between @lyvonnebriggs & @MelechThomas is resonating so deep within me. You should be watching "Jesus was a n*gga from Nazareth". Some themes that hit heavy within me below. /1
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CN53dZJiUW_/
The words of WISDOM shared in the IG Live between @lyvonnebriggs & @MelechThomas is resonating so deep within me. You should be watching "Jesus was a n*gga from Nazareth". Some themes that hit heavy within me below. /1
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CN53dZJiUW_/
If you want to know more about these incredible Black people:
@lyvonnebriggs is the immaculate intentional producer & Pastor Baé. Creator of the Proverbial Experience on IGTV.
@MelechThomas defines his Twitter platform as Jesus, justice, and jokes.
I love it here. /2
@lyvonnebriggs is the immaculate intentional producer & Pastor Baé. Creator of the Proverbial Experience on IGTV.
@MelechThomas defines his Twitter platform as Jesus, justice, and jokes.
I love it here. /2
Interrogate your teachers.
"All water comes from a well. I'm concerned people always try to offer people something to drink but you don't know what well they're drinking from. I always try to speak from the well of my ancestors and the God they serve." @MelechThomas /3
"All water comes from a well. I'm concerned people always try to offer people something to drink but you don't know what well they're drinking from. I always try to speak from the well of my ancestors and the God they serve." @MelechThomas /3
The Derek Chauvin verdict is not the "progress" the system would have us believe it is:
"It's a drop in the bucket, but it don't wet the floor. For every George Floyd there's a Breonna Taylor, Prince Jones." @MelechThomas /4
"It's a drop in the bucket, but it don't wet the floor. For every George Floyd there's a Breonna Taylor, Prince Jones." @MelechThomas /4
The inauguration is not the "progress" we think it is:
"Why are we happy with this? Biden is a predator. Harris is a prosecutor. We are still up
's creek with half a paddle." @lyvonnebriggs /5
"Why are we happy with this? Biden is a predator. Harris is a prosecutor. We are still up
's creek with half a paddle." @lyvonnebriggs /5
Black bourgeoisie is us learning the wrong lessons from oppressors.
"Just because Moses and Pharoah had the same teachers doesn't mean they learned the same lessons. We are still called to speak truth to Pharoah even when Pharoah looks like us." @MelechThomas /6
"Just because Moses and Pharoah had the same teachers doesn't mean they learned the same lessons. We are still called to speak truth to Pharoah even when Pharoah looks like us." @MelechThomas /6
Proximity to Whiteness and "Empire" is not liberation.
"Empire would have us thinking progress is being made to dismantle said empire, but it's not." @lyvonnebriggs /7
"Empire would have us thinking progress is being made to dismantle said empire, but it's not." @lyvonnebriggs /7
Black excellence is a scam. Our ancestors had wilder, more abundant dreams for us than this.
"Their dream was not for us to be saddled with student debt fearful of how to survive encounters with the police." @lyvonnebriggs /8
"Their dream was not for us to be saddled with student debt fearful of how to survive encounters with the police." @lyvonnebriggs /8
Don't assume people know what they're preaching.
"A lot of people overestimate how much Christians read the Bible. A lot of what passes for Christianity would not fly with Jesus." @MelechThomas /9
"A lot of people overestimate how much Christians read the Bible. A lot of what passes for Christianity would not fly with Jesus." @MelechThomas /9
Focus on the perspectives of those being marginalized.
"Growing up Black in America I have a different perspective. There's nothing wrong with the glasses God gave me. I don't need the glass of cis White men. They don't see the world clearly." @MelechThomas /10
"Growing up Black in America I have a different perspective. There's nothing wrong with the glasses God gave me. I don't need the glass of cis White men. They don't see the world clearly." @MelechThomas /10
THIS
"Liberation theology is Christ made poor. How do we look at Christ from the perspective of those who are poor, exploited, who hang from trees, low wage earners, hurt by incarceration, poverty, White supremacy, homophobia, all that." Gustavo Gutierrez & @MelechThomas /11
"Liberation theology is Christ made poor. How do we look at Christ from the perspective of those who are poor, exploited, who hang from trees, low wage earners, hurt by incarceration, poverty, White supremacy, homophobia, all that." Gustavo Gutierrez & @MelechThomas /11
White supremacy can be internalized pt 1.
"Black talking heads who want to have the same access to things as White people. But inside it's really 'I want to be like these White people.'" @MelechThomas /12
"Black talking heads who want to have the same access to things as White people. But inside it's really 'I want to be like these White people.'" @MelechThomas /12
Internalized White supremacy pt 2. I first heard this from @unwellbaddie on "Black liberation."
"There's a level of restraint to [Black talking heads'] desire for liberation. They don't want to be free. They want to be White. That's internal incarceration." @MelechThomas /13
"There's a level of restraint to [Black talking heads'] desire for liberation. They don't want to be free. They want to be White. That's internal incarceration." @MelechThomas /13
Liberation theology does not look like capitalism.
"Influencers reinforce ideas of capitalism which were never meant to include everybody. When you make the object of liberation inclusion in capitalism, who gets excluded?" @MelechThomas /14
"Influencers reinforce ideas of capitalism which were never meant to include everybody. When you make the object of liberation inclusion in capitalism, who gets excluded?" @MelechThomas /14
Capitalism is not Black liberation if we're pushing people out of chairs.
"Capitalism is musical chairs an economic system. Who loses their chair? When the music stops a chair is removed. We may get a chair this round but who is being shoved off their chair?" @MelechThomas /15
"Capitalism is musical chairs an economic system. Who loses their chair? When the music stops a chair is removed. We may get a chair this round but who is being shoved off their chair?" @MelechThomas /15
