Here to cheer you on, Dr. Tisby. It must take great discipline and discernment to participate in discussions like this. Keep up the kingdom work!
By the way, do you know or know of Heather Cox Richardson? She is another historian, publishes frequent letters on Facebook. She had a lengthy interview with President Biden about a month ago.
Thanks for sharing this, Jemar. It’s definitely true that a certain subgroup of white evangelicals is quick to confirmation bias an understanding of history that makes them feel better - and that a much larger population of white evangelicals lets them do it without more than a shrug or side-eye. Fits into a larger anti-intellectual mindset in American evangelicals that promotes “common sense” AKA “what feels like good sense to me right now”
Jemar, respectfully, I find that you traffic in the very same tactics as those you rail against. I have read and listened to a lot of your work and find that there is some really important and devastating information you bring to the conversation, but it quickly gets overshadowed by a clear and heavy bias of your own and actually leads to a place where you are so sure of yourself that you are unwilling to believe that there are any level-headed people that may disagree with you.
Actually, one of my first experiences listening to you was a talk you gave at a church. I thought your talk was good and useful information, but then came the Q&A portion...a young lady in the crowd asked you what was clearly a racist question. Thinking you would respond with some form of pushback, I was quite surprised when you actually cheered her on and said she had "skipped over the 101 class all the way to the 401 class", or something in that vein. My first experience with you was actually tinged with a disappointment of your willingness to celebrate racism, as long as it lined up with your preferred narrative. It did not line up with the label of truly being anti-racist, just anti-some-racism. I have listened to and read much more of your work since then and see this same theme running through much of your work.
"Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light. Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly." Deuteronomy 25:13-16
Ive often head the argument that every race has been a slave at one time or another,or that the Irish were also slaves when they came to America. So they are basically saying “Get over it”.,SMH.
They cannot cope with the fact that slavery came in different forms over the centuries, and also can’t seem to grasp the difference between indentured servitude, and the dehumanization of chattel slavery.
“Christians were against slavery.” They were referring to Quakers that were involved in the Underground Railroad. Never mind that the Quakers were a very small minority of Christians.
Here to cheer you on, Dr. Tisby. It must take great discipline and discernment to participate in discussions like this. Keep up the kingdom work!
By the way, do you know or know of Heather Cox Richardson? She is another historian, publishes frequent letters on Facebook. She had a lengthy interview with President Biden about a month ago.
Thanks for sharing this, Jemar. It’s definitely true that a certain subgroup of white evangelicals is quick to confirmation bias an understanding of history that makes them feel better - and that a much larger population of white evangelicals lets them do it without more than a shrug or side-eye. Fits into a larger anti-intellectual mindset in American evangelicals that promotes “common sense” AKA “what feels like good sense to me right now”
Jemar, respectfully, I find that you traffic in the very same tactics as those you rail against. I have read and listened to a lot of your work and find that there is some really important and devastating information you bring to the conversation, but it quickly gets overshadowed by a clear and heavy bias of your own and actually leads to a place where you are so sure of yourself that you are unwilling to believe that there are any level-headed people that may disagree with you.
Actually, one of my first experiences listening to you was a talk you gave at a church. I thought your talk was good and useful information, but then came the Q&A portion...a young lady in the crowd asked you what was clearly a racist question. Thinking you would respond with some form of pushback, I was quite surprised when you actually cheered her on and said she had "skipped over the 101 class all the way to the 401 class", or something in that vein. My first experience with you was actually tinged with a disappointment of your willingness to celebrate racism, as long as it lined up with your preferred narrative. It did not line up with the label of truly being anti-racist, just anti-some-racism. I have listened to and read much more of your work since then and see this same theme running through much of your work.
"Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light. Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly." Deuteronomy 25:13-16
Ive often head the argument that every race has been a slave at one time or another,or that the Irish were also slaves when they came to America. So they are basically saying “Get over it”.,SMH.
They cannot cope with the fact that slavery came in different forms over the centuries, and also can’t seem to grasp the difference between indentured servitude, and the dehumanization of chattel slavery.
“Christians were against slavery.” They were referring to Quakers that were involved in the Underground Railroad. Never mind that the Quakers were a very small minority of Christians.