Reluctant Theologian
@reluctantheologian.bsky.social
Black feminist scholar and lover of freedom and justice.
On this 4th of July I want to remind us that nothing is new under the sun. Baiting alligators with humans and/or using alligators to dehumanize, threaten, and torture humans isn’t novel. What also doesn’t seem to change is the depravity of a certain sector of people.
July 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On this 4th of July I want to remind us that nothing is new under the sun. Baiting alligators with humans and/or using alligators to dehumanize, threaten, and torture humans isn’t novel. What also doesn’t seem to change is the depravity of a certain sector of people.
Sinners, the movie, explains so much.
May 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sinners, the movie, explains so much.
Dear America,
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
April 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Dear America,
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
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April 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Imagine that...
March 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Imagine that...
Of course there's a movement against wokeness, what was merely a simple term. As one who studies slavery I can tell you there's nothing white slavers feared more than rebellion. What we've yet to learn is that the fight against the slaver includes all of us--bc the slaver hopes to oppress us all.
March 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Of course there's a movement against wokeness, what was merely a simple term. As one who studies slavery I can tell you there's nothing white slavers feared more than rebellion. What we've yet to learn is that the fight against the slaver includes all of us--bc the slaver hopes to oppress us all.
Wokeness is a badge of honor. It means you have empathy, unapologetically believe in equity and justice, and emphatically stand against antiblackness, racism, heteropatriarchy, sexism, misogyny, classism, xenophobia, homophobia, transantagonism, ableism, and all forms of injustice.
March 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Wokeness is a badge of honor. It means you have empathy, unapologetically believe in equity and justice, and emphatically stand against antiblackness, racism, heteropatriarchy, sexism, misogyny, classism, xenophobia, homophobia, transantagonism, ableism, and all forms of injustice.
2. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk in a time of turmoil—during the aftermath of slavery, the civil war, the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment, the failed Reconstruction, and heightened white terrorism.
February 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
2. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk in a time of turmoil—during the aftermath of slavery, the civil war, the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment, the failed Reconstruction, and heightened white terrorism.
Today’s Black History lesson, which concludes my 28 days of Black History, comes from W. E. B. Du Bois, and specifically his notion of the “color line,” which he discusses in his seminal text, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a cornerstone in Black literature and sociological study.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Today’s Black History lesson, which concludes my 28 days of Black History, comes from W. E. B. Du Bois, and specifically his notion of the “color line,” which he discusses in his seminal text, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a cornerstone in Black literature and sociological study.
Today’s Black History lesson comes from Oscar Stanton DePriest, the first Black person elected to Congress since George H. White of North Carolina left the House in 1901 and the first Black member from a northern state.
February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes from Oscar Stanton DePriest, the first Black person elected to Congress since George H. White of North Carolina left the House in 1901 and the first Black member from a northern state.
Today’s Black History lesson comes from Maggie Walker, a businesswoman, educator, civil rights activist, and the first Black woman in the United States to charter and serve as president of a bank, the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, which she founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1903.
February 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes from Maggie Walker, a businesswoman, educator, civil rights activist, and the first Black woman in the United States to charter and serve as president of a bank, the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, which she founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1903.
Today’s Black History lesson comes from 21 year old Fred Hampton, community organizer, activist, leader in the Black Panther Party (BPP), and chairman of the Illinois chapter.
February 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes from 21 year old Fred Hampton, community organizer, activist, leader in the Black Panther Party (BPP), and chairman of the Illinois chapter.
9. Fred Hampton, “Doc” Satchel, & Ed Stokes at a Black Student Union protest at DePaul University. "Doc" was involved in a Black Student Union protest at DePaul in 1968 & began his political career after. His work includes securing donations for hospital beds, equipment, supplies, and more.
February 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
9. Fred Hampton, “Doc” Satchel, & Ed Stokes at a Black Student Union protest at DePaul University. "Doc" was involved in a Black Student Union protest at DePaul in 1968 & began his political career after. His work includes securing donations for hospital beds, equipment, supplies, and more.
Today’s Black History lesson comes from the Black Panther Party and Ronald “Doc” Satchel, prominent teen member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) during the late 1960s who became the Minister of Health.
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes from the Black Panther Party and Ronald “Doc” Satchel, prominent teen member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) during the late 1960s who became the Minister of Health.
Today’s Black History lesson + sermon comes from Fannie Lou Hamer, the resilient yet “sick and tired” grass roots civil rights activist, voting rights organizer, and fierce advocate for racial and economic justice and Black political empowerment born in Mississippi to a sharecropping family.
February 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today’s Black History lesson + sermon comes from Fannie Lou Hamer, the resilient yet “sick and tired” grass roots civil rights activist, voting rights organizer, and fierce advocate for racial and economic justice and Black political empowerment born in Mississippi to a sharecropping family.
Today's Black History lesson comes from Malcolm X, & specifically his words on how the struggle for freedom and human dignity is slowed by "token integration," which doesn't solve any problems for Black folks but rather makes "the handpicked [Black folks] slow down the cry of the masses."
February 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today's Black History lesson comes from Malcolm X, & specifically his words on how the struggle for freedom and human dignity is slowed by "token integration," which doesn't solve any problems for Black folks but rather makes "the handpicked [Black folks] slow down the cry of the masses."
7. It attempted to ensure that 1) other qualified candidates experienced the same opportunities and 2) unqualified white men weren’t considered over qualified non-white people.
February 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
7. It attempted to ensure that 1) other qualified candidates experienced the same opportunities and 2) unqualified white men weren’t considered over qualified non-white people.
Today’s Black History lesson comes from DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion).
February 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes from DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion).
Today’s Black History lesson comes **not** from this controversial ad but rather from the prolific writer and fearless civil rights activist, James Baldwin and his essay, “On Being White….And Other Lies” (1984), which engages the process of *becoming white.
February 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes **not** from this controversial ad but rather from the prolific writer and fearless civil rights activist, James Baldwin and his essay, “On Being White….And Other Lies” (1984), which engages the process of *becoming white.
Today’s Black History lesson comes from Angela Davis, scholar, writer, prison abolitionist, black feminist, and activist.
February 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today’s Black History lesson comes from Angela Davis, scholar, writer, prison abolitionist, black feminist, and activist.