Damien S. Butler

Ole Miss ain’t beating the allegations

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Another great outcome from last night: @JohnFetterman = Mr. Irrelevant

Spelman College represent!!

See you in 28’…and we are going to make sure you have the $$ next time!!

Georgia is officially a 🔵 State!!

Jon Ossoff was on his @BarackObama tonight!! Remember Barack used to have it wrapped up by dinner time!!

I remember when the Black Church was the institutional backbone of our community and ground zero for the Civil Rights Movement. Its moral authority was earned by leaders who risked their freedom, their livelihoods, and their lives to defend our people. That history makes what we are witnessing @PerfectingC especially disgraceful. @marvinwinans allowing your church to become a campaign backdrop for @MikeRogersForMI and @HaleyforMI reflects a profound failure of judgment and an appalling disregard for the community you claim to serve. Consider the record: while serving in the Michigan Senate, Rogers co-sponsored the legislation that became Public Act 10 of 1999, which stripped Detroit’s elected school board of its governing authority and transferred control to an appointed reform board. Detroit residents were deprived of direct electoral control over the institution responsible for educating their children. That record deserves a public accounting. What answers did your congregation receive before your church helped lend him respectability? What explanation did he offer the families whose political power that legislation diminished? A pastor entrusted with the confidence of a community has an obligation to remember what ambitious politicians would prefer everyone forget. Offering the prestige of a Black institution without demanding accountability insults the intelligence of the people sitting in its pews. The arrogance required to treat that trust so casually is staggering. A congregation’s loyalty does not give its pastor unrestricted authority to spend its credibility on politicians seeking a convenient photograph and borrowed legitimacy. The Black Church’s legacy imposes obligations on everyone who claims its mantle. A pastor who enjoys its prestige while abandoning its responsibility to the people has forfeited any claim to that moral inheritance. You cannot invoke the sacrifices of those who fought for our political power while helping rehabilitate the image of someone who helped take it away.