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Yolanda Pierce, PhD

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4 years

If only we hated poverty instead of hating poor people.

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"They edited out the sound of children screaming." One short sentence that breaks your heart. #Uvalde

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I will not perform false politeness in the presence of evil.

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White supremacists are tearing down and burning Black Lives Matter signs from churches. These are acts of both racial terror and religious violence. +

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Too often calls for "peace" really mean "be quiet" and accept whatever injustice is being perpetuated.

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He said "can’t have the inmates running the prison" when he really wanted to say "can't have slaves running the plantation." #TakeAKnee

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White Christians: your silence and complicity, for 400 years, in the face of racial terror and religious violence against African Americans is theological malpractice.

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Burning Black Lives Matter signs ripped from churches is an explicit threat to the sanctity of the Black church and to Black lives and freedom, even if the church itself is not historically Black.

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You're a hypocrite and the truth ain't in you if you claim to love a God you haven't seen, while either condoning or being silent about acts of terror and violence against your actual neighbor.

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Perhaps if you read some Liberation or Womanist theology, or some Critical Race Theory, you’d understand the relationship between silence, racial terror, and white supremacist theology.

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5 years

For black boys navigating this cruel world without PR firms, marketing consultants, and network news interviews, we pray.

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But since that isn’t likely, here’s some scripture for you: woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs…inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

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One of my mistakes was believing I would be supported, helped, promoted, and rewarded to the same degree as my white colleagues. I thought my credentials, degrees, excellence, and work ethic would be as valuable than their connections. I was wrong.

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But as for me and my house, we will always, always protect, believe, and advocate for the vulnerable, the victimized, and the harmed.

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For all those dealing with the grief of empty seats at the Thanksgiving table, we pray.

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7 years

Far too many white Christians want the fruit of racial reconciliation without the actual labor of unmasking, naming, and eradicating racism.

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Anti-black bias is so common and acceptable in this culture that a SCOTUS justice "joking" about Black children wearing Klan outfits is hardly a blip on the radar. The cumulative total of decades and decades of racist "jokes" is dehumanizing. And that's the whole point...

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Dehumanizing language has consequences. It is no surprise that when you call people "animals" and "dogs," and when you call countries "shitholes," your policies reflect your beliefs. Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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White evangelicals:you've decisively proven that you love your whiteness more than you love your black & brown brothers & sisters in Christ.

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If only we hated poverty instead of hating poor people...

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Two things can be true at the same time. 1) Some extraordinary things were achieved last night. 2) Voter suppression is real and erodes our democracy.

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Neither my ovaries nor my heart was prepared for this today. I'm peeping the baby in the background and thinking this just can't be any better.

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6 years

Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself...and maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you!

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Holding space and praying for everyone reliving their own memories of trauma. Whether you choose to be silent or to speak, may God's grace and mercy comfort you. You are not alone.

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For those without access to experimental treatments; for those without health insurance; for those whom hospitals turn away; and for those denied a support team to advocate on their behalf - for these weary souls, oh God, we pray.

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Because if we did, we'd work to dismantle the systems and structures that make poverty possible, instead of demonizing individuals who lack money.

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Reads the essay "Is There a Place for Female Professors at Seminary?" Looks around office where I'm a full professor and the dean. Shakes my head and keeps it moving, confident in God's calling on my life...

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Praying for her peace. And trust me, the message has been received loud and clear by the rest of us.

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DC, the only city where @lizzo can play President James Madison's crystal flute in the middle of her concert at @CapitalOneArena , because we know @librarycongress and @LibnOfCongress are treasures.

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If this is what #Ferguson police do when cameras are rolling, why is it hard to believe they'd shoot unarmed teen when no one was watching?

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We don't need more tough love. We don't need more lessons from the school of hard knocks. We need tenderness, grace, and a soft place to land.

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Our tears are all the emotions for which we do not have words.

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This story continues to weigh heavily on my mind and in my spirit. 3 Black Churches Have Burned in 10 Days in a Single Louisiana Parish

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A group of church mothers, armed with nothing but prayer and anointing oil, would have the White House straight up ready in January.

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Real work of the gospel is dirty and messy. Your churches are declining because you want clean and comfortable more than you want Christ.

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"Until we can see the cross and the lynching tree together... there can be no genuine understanding of Christian identity in America, and no deliverance from the brutal legacy of slavery and white supremacy.” #JamesCone

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Y'all want Black women to be the mules to save your democracy, clean up your messes, and turn the world around. And when we are killed, you shake your heads and say "what a shame." Then keep demanding our labor.

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Read through this thread this morning. Ugly crying in the office. So beautiful.

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This father stuff will turn you soft man, really soft lol 😍😍😍

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One of the cruelest features of white supremacy is how it successfully blames anything and everything, other than its own racist ideology, for the very harms and injuries it causes.

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You don't need a black friend to denounce racism & you don't need a daughter to denounce misogyny. Respect a person's humanity...full stop.

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One shady church might be closed but there are actually hundreds keeping their doors open. Thankful for those living out their faith.

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Women were the first preachers; very first to declare good news of the Risen Savior. Will your pulpit welcome a woman preacher this Easter?

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3 years

I need somebody on the Hammond organ putting @ReverendWarnock in a G flat for the close. #IfYouKnowYouKnow

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8 years

I cannot trust a system that shoots a child 2 seconds after encountering him and then fails to even try to perform first aid. #TamirRice

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The church mothers kept telling us that we had to know God for ourselves. And they were absolutely right.

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Come, Thou Fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it, Mount of Thy redeeming love.

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Dear Press: when someone in a crowd shouts "HU" to an alumnus of @HowardU , they answer "You Know," even when it's the @VP . That's what happened...

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It's not enough for people of faith to denounce racism. You must actively work to dismantle it, brick by brick. WORK as well as pray.

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There's not a crisis of resources at the Southern border. There's no national shortage of soap or toothbrushes. This nation simply lacks the decency, humanity, and moral integrity to affirm the imago Dei of those being detained.

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Until you're willing to condemn how scripture was used as justification for enslavement/racism, you're not ready for work of racial justice.

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Dr. James Cone: well done, good and faithful servant. Mourning a friend, teacher, and mentor. Absolutely heartbroken at his passing.

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How do you "do justice?" Start where you are. Don't be so paralyzed by the scale of the problem that you simply do nothing. The work of racial justice needs lawyers and journalists, and also gardeners and theologians. #RacialJustice

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They want everything but the burden. EVERYTHING but the burden. Whew...

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In 2013, a Black woman, #MiriamCarey , was killed after driving into a security checkpoint. 9 rounds were fired into her car with her baby in the backseat at the Capitol. Today, white supremacists have been allowed to take the Capitol and disrupt an election, unharmed. #SayHerName

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Often the only time we bring Black women into significant leadership positions is to have them attempt to clean up the mess that someone else made.

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In her face, I see the image of every Black woman I know and love. And my own. And I weep to live in a world that doesn't affirm our humanity or afford us any justice. #BreonnaTaylor

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White evangelicals on both sides of impeachment continue to ignore the pernicious racism which defines this presidency. I maintain what I wrote in 2016: willful silence & overt support of white supremacy is a sin. Your theological claims are empty if you can't love your neighbor.

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I wake up every day and choose to be kind. That is a spiritual discipline. But some days are harder than others. People's lack of home-training will test you.

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Accountability is necessary for healing.

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We don't lack the resources or the imagination to dismantle oppressive systems. We lack the will to do so.

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4 years

For those who stand behind the sacred desk today: vulnerability is holy. We’d rather hear a raw and honest sermon than a beautiful but irrelevant one.

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3 years

Thinking about these words from bell hooks: “Folks in this society have been socialized via racism and sexism to see Black women as existing to “serve;” it often follows that folks feel we should continue to serve even if we are sick, weary, or even near death.”

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I do not want to live in a theocracy. My ancestors had far too much experience of living in a nation where white supremacist interpretations of the bible functioned as the law of the land.

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5 years

So interesting to watch, in real time, the continued demonization of street corner drug dealers, and yet the open embrace of "innovative cannabis entrepreneurs." Fascinating how only one group bears the stigma of moral failing when they're all straight hustlers.

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3 years

When we can go back outside again, I will never take for granted the simple pleasure of working from a coffeehouse, surrounded by the sights and sounds of other human beings.

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8 years

For the women who couldn't come forward: we also love you! Because if 13 testified, there were probably more who were victimized. #Holtzclaw

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3 years

Sometimes the healthiest thing to do is the hardest thing to do. Do it anyway.

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The gun culture in this nation is nothing short of idolatry.

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In 15 years of teaching very difficult and heavy topics, nothing caused more debate than my simple reminder that Saint Augustine was African. SMH...

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If your pastor did not offer a full-throated, flat-footed, unapologetic message against the sins of white supremacy and racist violence, you may be a member of a social club instead of a church.

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In my last Zoom, someone suggested we needed to rush off or else we'd miss the end of @repjohnlewis ' funeral and remarks from President Obama. I laughed. They had no clue about Black funeral culture. I've done another Zoom and had lunch and Auntie is still talking.

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Dear Sleep Cycle: as per my last email, Saturdays are meant for sleeping late. Please govern yourself accordingly.

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So surprised, given the recent mail delays, to receive copies of my new book today. I'm excited to share her with the world.

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Heard a song at the store; looked it up when I got home and went down a musical rabbit hole. I must still be there. That's the only explanation I have for why a hymn-loving gospel-singing Black church girl is now a fan of @Harry_Styles .

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EXCITING NEWS!! Preorders available for my new book, “In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, & the Stories We Inherit," womanist theology essays on race, faith, the Black church, and wisdom from church mothers. Honored to usher it into the world.

In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit

A grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. In the pages of In My Grandmother's House , public theologian Yolanda Pierce builds an everyday womanist theology rooted...

www.broadleafbooks.com

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Fascinating how folks want the celebration of #Juneteenth without an acknowledgement of the debt owed due to centuries of chattel slavery. How do you celebrate the "freedom" but ignore the bondage that preceded it?

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“And He will raise you up on eagle's wings, Bear you on the breath of dawn, Make you to shine like the sun, And hold you in the palm of His Hand.”

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Self-care is wonderful. Self-love is necessary. But those two alone are not sufficient for the fullness of life. Nobody is meant to do all of life alone. Relationships matter.

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Placing my trust in the One who can restore the years, and the hope, the locust have eaten.

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Our world, from restaurants to parking to houses of worship, is increasingly inaccessible to people who do not have smartphones. I'm deeply concerned by this. Anyone else? Is this simply "progress?"

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For those who still have to find a way to make a home in hostile territory, we pray.

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Just go ahead and laminate those protest signs. You'll need them for the duration.

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Unsurprising that a nation founded on slavery, genocide, rape, and theft lacks a nuanced understanding of the value of people over property.

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Somewhere in Texas, a killer's social media and job history is being scrubbed, while a victim's elementary school report cards are being searched for a reason to blame her for her own death. #BeenHereBefore #AtatianaJefferson

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Dear Media: girls who are kidnapped, forced to convert & marry terrorists are not "brides." They are prisoners of war. #BringBackOurGirls

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I was born and raised in the church. I love the church. I miss the church. But I love God and God's people more than any institution or building. Love yourself and your neighbors enough to stay home a little while longer.

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Something today triggered a painful memory from the first few months of the pandemic. And let me say this: there is a WHOLE lot of unprocessed trauma and grief connected to Covid that will keep showing up in unexpected ways.

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Fred Hammond’s “No Weapon” hits as hard in 2021 as it did in 1996. Whew! @RealFredHammond

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@HabenGirma They have been here in Washington, DC all day. Flags for block after block. Beautiful.

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Those called to deliver the good news must do so even when they are coping with bad news. Praying for all clergy, of all faiths, dealing with the burdensome joys of leadership.

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@tressiemcphd What?? You mean there's a diagnosis for my everyday reality??

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Longing for a world where a woman can take a walk by herself on a beautiful summer evening.

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It's okay to feel many things at once. Cautious optimism for the future. Anger at how the past four years unfolded. Grief for those we've lost. Relief at feeling a burden lifted. Uncertainty for what tomorrow will really bring. All the feels.

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The same grace and kindness you would give to the person you love the most, give to yourself. You are worthy of kindness and tenderness.

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On any given day, there are likely more crimes taking place in a luxurious K Street office suite than they are on any street corner in Baltimore.

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Buy yourself flowers.

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For all who will stand behind the sacred desk today: preaching is protest! May the fire of Pentecost give you the courage to speak truth to power.

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Not every event needs to be modified for a virtual platform. You can just let go of some things. It's okay.

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The religion nerd in me loves that the winning word of the #NationalSpellingBee was "koinonia."

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The Black prophetic tradition is ancient as days, and yet still alive. Your doctored clips, hit pieces, and twitter lies can't kill what even the Middle Passage couldn't destroy.

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