When you grow up a Black girl in a predominantly white small town in the Deep South, you learn to see white people’s capacity for both humanity and oppression, early, as a matter of survival
Photo: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images I have one or two white conservative Evangelical friends left. Our friendships mostly thrive in the environs of Facebook, as nostalgic vestiges of my high-school days, and my sense that despite significant political disagreements, these people are deep down fundamentally decent. .
While I am a Christian, a preacher’s kid, and a licensed minister — I never have time for white Evangelical bullshit. I simply cannot abide it. I certainly do not have the patience of Job on a good day, and I definitely don’t on a bad day. But I engaged her in “Christian love” and exceeding patience because I guess I hold out hope that if some of these conservative white women would see the light, things could change for the better.
I also tried to preempt some of the moral claims that those on the right make about abortion by pointing out that even God gives us choices. Mary explicitly agreed to birth the baby Jesus. People get to choose whether to follow Jesus or not. Why should childbirth be different? My friend thinks that all this decision does is keep people from “using abortion as birth control.
But when your view of the world is centered around the “truth” that heterosexual marriages between Christian folks can solve all the world’s problems, none of these things seem like horrors to you. They seem like the inevitable results of people’s refusal to “do things God’s way.
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