Nearly 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) raided my great-grandfather’s home in Kentucky, dragged him out of the house, beat him, and then led him to the lynching tree.
My grandmother, Robbie Kennedy, witnessed the attack. As a young girl, she screamed and cried uncontrollably as her father was executed before her eyes.
Sheryl Swoopes can’t accept that Caitlin Clark is a white star in a league and sport dominated by black lesbians.
Unknown to her or her executioners, her father was a Freemason. As he stood by the tree, preparing the noose around his neck, my great-grandfather made hand gestures and postures that only a fellow Freemason could understand. Fortunately for him, one of the members of the KKK was a Freemason and opposed his murder. My great-grandfather’s life was spared, and he and his family fled Kentucky for Indianapolis.
My grandmother had harbored an intense fear and hatred of white people for many years, but she told me many times that the moment she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, all that fear and hatred vanished from her heart and soul.
Everyone called her Mama Lovie. She epitomized love and positive energy for the last 50 years of her life. She dedicated her life to spreading the good news of the Gospel, serving 25th Street Baptist Church, and helping her grandchildren have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
I think a lot about Mama Robbie. She passed away 25 years ago. She suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in her later years. Eventually, the only words she could speak were the words of the Bible. She could recite her favorite verses (and there were hundreds of them) verbatim, and where they were in the Bible.
No one has impacted my life more than Mama Lovie, and her memory is both a blessing and a curse to me – it reminds me of how black women once expressed themselves and defined their identity by their faith, not their politics.
This morning, as I reflected on the intense animosity that basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes has toward WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark, I thought of Mama Lovie.
Earlier this year, when Clark was breaking college basketball records at Iowa, Swoopes slammed him as a gimmicky exaggeration. She claimed Clark was 25, played five or six seasons at Iowa, and took 40 shots per game. That was all false information.
When asked if her comments were born out of prejudice, Swoopes maintained that “black people can’t be racist” and said she has white friends.
Then this week, with the WNBA on a month-long hiatus for the Olympics, Swoopes began bashing Kaitlyn Clark. Clark is the front-runner for WNBA Rookie of the Year and remains the biggest star in American sports. On her podcast, “Queens of the Court,” Swoopes recommended Angel Reese for the award and said Clark’s Indiana Fever could make the playoffs without her, implying that Fever role players are more valuable than Clark.
Sheryl Swoopes hates Caitlin Clark. She uses racial jealousy and Clark’s influence to elevate herself. This is typical bigot behavior. She uses prejudice to hide her inferiority complex.
The common refrain that “black people can’t be racist because black people have no power” is laughable. The truth is that many black people believe that their prejudices are justified and acceptable given America’s history.
They do not believe in the Christian doctrine of forgiveness.
Jesus forgave those who crucified him. My grandmother, a follower of Christ, forgave those who tried to lynch her father.
Sheryl Swoopes can’t accept that Caitlin Clark is a white star in a league and sport dominated by black lesbians.
Black women have abandoned traditional Christianity, and black men have followed suit.
Too many Americans, black and white, have replaced Christianity with a “Black Girl Tragic” religion that worships delusional, angry black women. We see it in all walks of life. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris converted to the religion 40 years ago when she attended Howard University, a historically black college, and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She abandoned her Indian and Jamaican heritage to embrace her black identity.
It’s all madness that destroys the foundations of the American ideal.
The Black Girl Tragic Religion eschews common sense, fairness, and facts. It rationalizes illogic and glorifies emotion. It twists and turns and ignores negative consequences. It seduces men into thinking and acting like women. It believes words are as harmful as sticks and stones.
Sixty years ago, politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan called on President Lyndon Johnson and America to invest in empowering black men and supporting the black nuclear family. The mainstream media and black elites denounced the “Moynihan Report” as racist. Johnson pivoted to the Great Society and gave rights to single black women.
These decisions undermined traditional Christian male leadership and gave rise to a new religion: Black Girl Tragic.
It is a cult that rejects Jesus and chooses death over deprogramming.
