Transcript
A (0:04)
Growing up in the Bible Belt, I always knew that racism was a huge component of white evangelical Christianity. I'm not religious, my parents weren't religious. But every time I had a very religious friend, they were also the most racist friend. N word drops a lot more than people on the coast realize in Bible Belt states. And what always kind of gave me hope was that on a national scene, people were oblivious to this and constantly kind of moving towards a more progressive opportunity society where people that are black and brown were getting more rights. Their suffering and the whitewashing of history that was done was getting exposed. So this is really mortifying to me to see what happens in Bible Belt states becoming mainstream. I'm going to play a video from for you, you guys from maga, Pastor Joel Webin, and it's going to really outrage you. But what should outrage you more is I wasn't shocked at this because people in Oklahoma say this to their kids and to their grandkids.
B (1:21)
Play the clip for a Christian white parent who loves the Lord and loves your children that you need to have the talk. The talk that we're referencing is the talk that takes your children according to their maturity at the proper time, the appropriate time, and says there are certain parts of town that you cannot go and there are certain people that you cannot be around. If there's someone who is black in our church and they've been in our church and we know them and they love the Lord Jesus Christ, great. We're not talking about that person, but we're talking about when you go into a crowd of people, if you go into a crowd of strangers and they're white strangers, there's some danger. If they're black strangers, there is 30 times more danger. Them's the facts. And it is actually a failure of your parental duty. White parents, please hear me. If you teach your children growing up, if you lie to them and say all people and all races of people in our country are the same, okay.
A (2:34)
You grew up in this. You grew up with this being mainstreamed from your evangelical home. So this isn't that shocking to us in Bible Belt America. What's so shocking is I always thought, okay, you know, the Democrats and these blue cities, blue states, blue government's going to protect us from this as we keep doing civil rights work. But to see it get so mainstreamed is really devastating.
C (3:01)
It's terrifying. And I just want to say this. Bigotry and racism against black people is not the only thing that they are bigoted against these Christians. It is patriarchal. They feel the exact same way about women. Women shouldn't have a right to vote. Women should submit to their husband. So it doesn't just stop with the racism. And they have taken that and homophobia. So in these mega churches and this guy just admits it straight up, we're racist.
