{"id":2271198,"date":"2024-06-19T04:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-traded-dr-kings-christianity-for-kendis-critical-race-theory\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T04:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:33:47","slug":"blm-traded-dr-kings-christianity-for-kendis-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-traded-dr-kings-christianity-for-kendis-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Replaced Dr. King&#8217;s Christian Ideals with Kendi&#8217;s Critical Race Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-traded-dr-kings-christianity-for-kendis-critical-race-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2271198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses Juneteenth and the\u200c historical progression \u2064of black activism in America, emphasizing the centrality of Christian values\u200b and ethics in \u200bthe abolitionist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-canceling-of-america-candace-owens-clay-travis-go-off-on-woke-sports\/\" title=\"The Canceling Of America: Candace Owens, Clay Travis Go Off On Woke Sports\u00a0\">civil rights movements<\/a>. It highlights key figures like Frederick Douglass, Harriet \u200cTubman, and Martin\u2064 Luther King Jr., who\u200c grounded their activism in\u2062 Christian theology and practices \u200bto \u2063challenge injustices\u2063 such as \u200dslavery and segregation.<\/p>\n<p>The article\u200c contrasts these\u2062 historic \u2064movements with\u2064 contemporary\u200d actions by Black \u2062Lives Matter \u200c(BLM) and other leftist \u2064groups, claiming they lack the Christian moral foundation and have shifted towards\u200d a more divisive\u200b and\u2063 less constructive approach. It critiques BLM\u2019s\u200b initial call to abolish the nuclear family and\u200b associates contemporary racial activism with\u200b increased \u2063societal division and personal gain for activists.<\/p>\n<p>It \u200ccalls for a return to Christian virtues and principles \u2063to\u2064 guide future \u200dblack political activism, suggesting this \u200dcould support community rebuilding\u2064 and \u200bempowerment, moving away from victimhood towards a message\u200d of strength and self-reliance. The decline of church\u200d attendance among black Protestants \u200dis noted as part of the broader shift\u200d away from religiously grounded activism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Juneteenth is an occasion to celebrate the triumph of America\u2019s abolitionist movement. Though a landmark achievement, the emancipation of black Americans did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-gears-up-to-mandate-ethnic-studies-as-its-architect-rails-against-jewish-complicity\/\" title=\"Washington State Gears Up To Mandate \u2018Ethnic Studies\u2019 As Its Architect Rails Against \u2018Jewish Complicity\u2019\">end racial injustice<\/a> in the U.S. Rather Jim Crow segregation necessitated the birth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-snaps-at-civil-rights-leaders-in-leaked-call\/\" title=\"Biden Snaps at Civil Rights Leaders in Leaked Call\">civil rights movement<\/a> a century later, achieving similar success in ending legal racial discrimination. But a key attribute of the success of the abolitionist and civil rights movements was their grounding in Christian virtue.<\/p>\n<p>The church played a central role in these movements, with many civil rights leaders also being leaders in the church. Today, leaders of Black Lives Matter and other black leftists are attempting to usurp the legacy of prior generations of black activism without the Christian ethics that defined it. Absent Christian grounding, BLM, DEI, CRT, and the remaining alphabet soup of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brooklyn-nets-forward-kevin-durant-dunks-on-spoiled-entitled-clickbait-media-following-tampa-bay-bucs-giovani-bernards-botched-fake-punt\/\" title=\"Brooklyn Nets Forward Kevin Durant Dunks on \u201cSpoiled, Entitled Clickbait Media\u201d Following Tampa Bay Bucs\u2019 Giovani Bernard\u2019s Botched Fake Punt\">racial identity politics<\/a> have inevitably descended into a grift that has achieved little for black Americans. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1740322103\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5d8a09527caaf2eeeade5491dcc2a1be fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5d8a09527caaf2eeeade5491dcc2a1be\"><\/div>\n<p>Frederick Douglass relied on Christian theology to argue for the emancipation of black slaves. In his autobiography, Douglass observed how his master\u2019s conversion to Christianity actually made the master more cruel because of how the newfound moral certainty affirmed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-jill-and-doug-to-mary-todd-lincoln-when-political-spouses-cause-problems\/\" title=\"From Jill and Doug to Mary Todd Lincoln: When political spouses cause problems\">pro-slavery views<\/a>. But Douglass dismissed slavery\u2019s proponents as fundamentally unlike Christ, comparing the \u201cChristianity of Christ\u201d that sought justice to the \u201cChristianity of America\u201d that defended slavery. This contrast was powerful to his audiences because it challenged America\u2019s self-perception as a Christian nation, urging Americans to live up to their Christian principles by permanently ending the institution of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Tubman earned the nickname \u201cBlack Moses\u201d by conjuring the ancient Hebrews\u2019 exodus from captivity during her work transporting slaves to freedom in northern free states. Raised in the Methodist Church, Tubman claims a vision from God inspired her to organize the Underground Railroad. Common stophouses on the secret trail comprised churches stowing fugitive slaves in basements and attics to evade slave catchers in coordination with local pastors and parishioners. <\/p>\n<p>After the abolition of slavery, the church remained a central part of the civil rights movement almost a century later. Though Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader and most public figurehead of the fight to end Jim Crow, his efforts were supported by thousands of pastors throughout the country. The black church was such a central feature of the civil rights movement that black churches were often targets of terrorism by white supremacists, with the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls being among the most tragic examples.<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s oratory and writings evoked Christianity. Despite facing persistent violence, King\u2019s insistence on nonviolent resistance derived directly from Christ\u2019s command to turn the other cheek when evildoers harm you. Pleading with American Christians to take a stand for justice, in his letter from a Birmingham jail, King evoked the early church\u2019s response to hostility not dissimilar to the injustices of the segregated South:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3d20f80ee27c02896d8eae5d57b2a7e9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3d20f80ee27c02896d8eae5d57b2a7e9\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>There was a time when the church was very powerful \u2014 in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being \u201cdisturbers of the peace\u201d and \u201coutside agitators.\u201d But the Christians pressed on, in the conviction that they were \u201ca colony of heaven,\u201d called to obey God rather than man.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This call to action resonated with Americans because it was grounded in a shared appeal to stand for Christ. <\/p>\n<p>In comparison to Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Rev. Martin Luther King\u2019s shared grounding in Christianity to defeat slavery and segregation, contemporary black activists are devoid of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Having abandoned the church, black leftists have found refuge in the academy. Replacing Christianity, critical race theory is now the driving ideology of black leftists. Ibram X. Kendi is arguably the most prominent proponent of CRT, writing numerous books and articles arguing that whites are irredeemably racist and that blacks are eternally oppressed in America. Nikole Hannah-Jones built her career in journalism, but once racial identity politics became a national obsession, she quickly found a home in academia, where she continues to promote historical revisionism about the history of slavery in America.<\/p>\n<p>Further repudiating the Christianity of their predecessors, Black Lives Matter has rejected nonviolence as an organizing principle, as evidenced by the destructive 2020 riots that decimated cities across the country.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ffc4e4ba2b84a03f681e2064a26ef254 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ffc4e4ba2b84a03f681e2064a26ef254\"><\/div>\n<p>While Douglass, Tubman, and King fought to abolish slavery and segregation, BLM aims to abolish the nuclear family. BLM\u2019s statement of principles included a call to abolish the nuclear family but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/commentary\/black-families-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eventually erased<\/a> from the website after public backlash. The nuclear family is the greatest source of stability for black people. Black families that feature both a father and a mother in the home diminish almost all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/06\/17\/single-moms-great-families-dads-better\/7705997002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">socioeconomic disparities<\/a> with their white peers. But of course, BLM\u2019s desire to destroy black Americans\u2019 primary means of upward mobility is merely reflective of their anti-Christian core.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, academia\u2019s uprooting of the church as the center of black activism among leftists might merely be a reflection of shifting attitudes toward religion as church attendance among black protestants witnesses a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/black-protestant-church-attendance-youth-covid-pandemic-5d854b4db73e118cb22767220573455f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rapid decline<\/a>. The results are predictable. The contemporary black left has accomplished nothing but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10831013\/BLM-founder-claims-mistakes-90M-white-guilt-money-weaponized-against-her.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enriching its protagonists<\/a> while worsening <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1687\/race-relations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">racial relations <\/a>in the U.S. While blacks have achieved political equality, black communities are disproportionately consumed by crime and poverty compared to other racial demographics.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another way forward. A black political activism grounded in Jesus Christ would repudiate violence and instead focus on rebuilding the black family. Black leaders can help end the cycle by rejecting the victimhood narrative in favor of a message of empowerment. This message can be found by reclaiming Christian virtues: Rebuild the family, serve your community, and choose a culture of life over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/meeting\/house\/106562\/witnesses\/HHRG-115-JU10-Wstate-ParkerS-20171101-SD001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">culture of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, black political leadership need not be ceded to faithless leftists. There is a rising class of leaders eager to offer black Americans a new path forward based on faith, community, and opportunity. Ian Rowe, a founder of charter schools in the Bronx, has promoted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philanthropyroundtable.org\/rowe-offers-pathway-to-opportunity-for-children-in-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FREE agenda<\/a> to empower individuals to assume agency over their lives. The Jack Brewer Foundation has <a href=\"https:\/\/thejackbrewerfoundation.org\/americanheroes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donated millions<\/a> of dollars toward rebuilding the black family by preparing men for fatherhood. In turn, these messages are beginning to resonate with black voters, who are abandoning their long-standing loyalties to the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>This Juneteenth, all Americans should draw inspiration from the leaders of the abolitionist and civil rights movement to drive America toward fulfilling its founding promise that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights from God. Prior generations of black leaders achieved social progress by appealing to America\u2019s shared Christian heritage. But black political activism without Christianity has no moral foundation to justify its objectives, inevitably resulting in morally bankrupt activism. Therefore, to achieve further enhancements for the black community, black leaders must recommit themselves to Christ. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-edda47c7f68ad9f7f956a7f2d2a3c6a1 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-edda47c7f68ad9f7f956a7f2d2a3c6a1\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juneteenth commemorates America&#8217;s abolitionist victory, marking the end of slavery. However, it didn&#8217;t halt racial injustice; instead, it led to Jim Crow laws and later sparked the civil rights movement, which successfully fought legal racial discrimination. 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