HAIL TO THE US WHITE SUPREMACIST LIAR IN CHIEF
©Wendell
Griffen, 2017
Justice Is A Verb!
August 16, 2017
Yesterday
President Donald Trump of the United States delivered unscripted remarks that
confirmed what many people across the United States and throughout the world
have long understood: he is a
pathological liar and apologist for white supremacy and white nationalism.
Yesterday Mr. Trump’s remarks confirmed
these words I wrote in my August 15 blog post:
“We should not believe President Trump is
concerned about racial equality and opposes white supremacy ideology. We
should not believe he does, has, or will condemn, denounce, and disavow anyone
associated with white supremacy and “alt-right” groups such as neo-Nazi
sympathizers and the Ku Klan. We should not believe any claim Mr. Trump
makes about being opposed to racism, bigotry, and hate-based violence against
racial minorities.”
Yesterday, Donald Trump spoke
approvingly of people who carried torches and chanted racist and anti-Semitic
slogans Friday night as they marched in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest
removal of a statute of General Robert E. Lee.
Yesterday, Donald Trump claimed that
those people were not white supremacists, but were marching in support of “culture”
and “heritage.”
Yesterday, Trump challenged journalists
who questioned his support of the white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville
by equating the historical relevance of slaveholding Presidents George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson – who were instrumental in founding the United
States – with Confederate General Lee and General Stonewall Jackson, men who
forsook their sworn oath to defend the United States and, instead, committed
treason by waging war against the United States in a failed effort to destroy
the union and maintain an empire where Africans were held, bred, bought, sold, transported,
raped, beaten, and otherwise brutalized to force them to work as slaves.
In one appearance, Donald Trump reminded
the world that he is a liar.
In one appearance, Donald Trump reminded
the world that he is untrustworthy.
In one appearance, Donald Trump
shamelessly and brazenly flaunted disloyalty for the office he holds and the
nation he is sworn to lead for equality and justice.
In one appearance, Trump disrespected
the sacrifices of men and women – from this nation and elsewhere – who courageously
served, fought, bled, and died to save humanity from the white supremacist
ideology of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler.
In one appearance, Trump did more than even
his worse critics might have imagined likely when he openly invoked the
rhetoric of white supremacists such as David Duke (a former Ku Klux Klan grand
wizard).
Donald Trump lied yesterday when he
called the white protestors who carried torches and chanted racist and
anti-Semitic slogans “peaceful.” Read
what Brian McLaren wrote about the Charlottesville experience: http://auburnseminary.org/what-i-saw-in-charlottesville/.
Watch Joy Reid’s MSNBC interview with Rev.
Traci Blackmon about what actually happened Friday night: http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-is-lying-about-charlottesville-says-witness-1025515075632.
Read and watch this report about Rev. Blackmon’s
Saturday experience in Charlottesville: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/gotta-go-gotta-go-black-pastor-bolts-joy-reid-live-interview-as-white-nationalists-attack-fellow-pastors/#.WY82AMx3h5I.facebook.
(Full disclosure: Rev. Traci Blackmon and I serve as trustees of
the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (www.sdpconference.info).
The world knows that what Trump said
about what happened in Charlottesville is factually untrue. Trump’s remarks were not uttered by
mistake. He lied.
The people who chanted racist and anti-Semitic
slogans and marched with torches to surround a church Friday night where Rev.
Blackmon and others were assembled to prayerfully prepare themselves and
encourage one another before Saturday were not “good peaceful people,” as Trump
claimed. They were white supremacists,
neo-Nazis, and neo-Fascists. Yesterday
the President of the United States claimed what those people did Friday night
was morally and ethically comparable to what Rev. Blackmon and a church filled
with praying men, women, and children did.
As a follower and minister of the gospel
of Jesus, I denounce Donald Trump and reject his wicked effort to spread the
deceitful message of white supremacy under the guise that doing so will “Make
America Great Again.”
Sadly, I anticipated we would come to
this predicament after Trump was elected.
That is why I wrote these words in
The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope.
“Cooperative
Baptists – along with others who follow the gospel of the extravagant generosity
and radical hospitality shown in the ministry of Jesus – must now engage in
tough thinking about prophetic choices and commitments on what it means to
understand the demands of following Jesus.
Stark differences exist between the ethics of Jesus and the ethics of
President Trump – and should inspire followers of Jesus who believe in social
justice to refuse to forsake Jesus in favor of the newly elected head of state.
For starters,
followers of Jesus must decide whether to condemn white Christian nationalism
as a heresy against the gospel of Jesus Christ… People who supported, voted
for, and now cheer President Trump, while professing to be followers of the One
who saves, must be challenged as committing heresy. White Christian nationalists, by supporting
politicians and policies that oppress immigrants [and others], demonstrate an
irreconcilable contradiction. At best,
their claims of allegiance to Jesus are ill-conceived. At worst, their claims of allegiance to Jesus
are fraudulent. Any claim that one has
welcomed the holy immigrant into one’s heart and professed Jesus as the center of
one’s faith and living – while practicing xenophobia and other unwelcoming behaviors…
- is beyond unpersuasive. It is moral
and ethical nonsense bordering on insanity.
Refusal to condemn
white Christian nationalism as a heresy against the gospel of Jesus Christ
amounts to affirming, even by inaction, allegiance to and support for President
Trump and his threatening political policies and practices. Followers of Jesus cannot be faithful to the
rule of President Trump and be faithful to the lordship of Jesus Christ. To be faithful to Jesus requires that we
oppose Trump…
Jesus declared
in the lesson of the Good Samaritan that the greatest commandment is to love
God with one’s entire being and to love others as oneself. This means that followers of Jesus must now,
with the rest of the world watching, decide how to be prophetic followers of
the Palestinian Jew whose parents migrated with him to Egypt to escape
genocide. While the rest of the world
watches, disciples of Christ must decide whether and how to operate
twenty-first-century versions of the Underground Railroad and create a
sanctuary movement in opposition to President Trump’s campaign pledge to deport
millions of undocumented immigrants.
While the rest of the world watches, followers of Jesus must refuse to
provide religious cover to Trump’s policies towards people who are
vulnerable.
The rest of the
world will continue to watch to see if followers of Jesus are truly obedient to
his call to lay down our lives to protect people who are poor, sick, racial
minorities, Muslims, LGBTQ, disabled, laborers, workers, and other targets of
President Trump’s oppressive campaign promises and executive policies.”
What will you do to stand against
President Trump? How will you confront,
condemn, denounce, and overcome the heresy of white supremacy and white
Christian nationalism?
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