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  Ageism and adult supremacy tended to be the most dominant and the most evident around lots of black folks that I was around in my childhood. I also noticed that growing up, that Christian black adults in particular were visibly hesitant  to correct each other publicly. For example, whenever the Christian black elders in their sixties cursed, the Christian black adults in their forties wanted to say something, but backed down because they would mutter under their breath "They're my elders, I can't tell them what to do." I dislike their racial conspiracy thinking. The Christian black adults in their forties, would join in the profanity (even though they usually don't curse.) I saw rare moments  when the elderly cursed, the middle-aged would try to stop them. The elderly would read the middle-aged the riot act.  Not every elder is an "elder". Older doesn't mean better, and older doesn't mean wiser. Most of the abuse overcomers I met have been black, "Beat the black off" is how they were threatened.   In fact, those same black overcomers of abuse told me that topics of sex crimes, abuse, and violent offenses were kept quiet in their black religious families and black houses of worship. They even told me that their relatives knew they were being traumatized. The adult relatives said nothing, did nothing, and had the audacity to demonize the abuse overcomers with words, fists, and the belt for reporting it, and told them to keep the trauma "in-house." They were cut off completely  by their families, church mates, friends, and friends of their families. "In-house" means no physical protection, the foolish "no-snitching code", and no legal justice. The Christian black adults in my youth would say their favorite words with a southern drawl: "Grown", "Bills", "Car", "House," and "Roof." Those are forms of the tragic prosperity gospel. It causes kids to grow up fast like other traumas. They always complained about co-workers and the boss.    Financial security and academic security doesn't protect black people from racism and self-black hatred. It's okay to have degrees, diplomas, and living independently, but those things should never be idols. Speaking of idols, lots of older black people that I was around tended to put the elders above God. They quoted the elders more than they quoted God.  They ran their homes poorly, letting toxic people call their house phones, cell phones, work phones, letting toxic people email them, video chat them, and voicemail them, and letting toxic people in and out their homes. Some were uncomfortable with drinking and smoking when it came to themselves and others, but let folks drink and smoke in their homes. They let toxic adults do whatever they pleased in their homes. There is not enough Prophet Nathans and John The Baptists' in modern church. Jesus reveres children, and corrects adults. I strictly and only like the black church of legal Jim Crow days.      The Christian Church is so divided over many subjects. Christians disagree with each other peacefully, other times mean-spiritedly when it comes to tattoos, piercings, premarital sex, drinking, nightlife, "out-of-wedlock parenting", weed, profanity, adult entertainment, LGBTQIA+, cohabitation, adult comedy clubs, secular music, secular television, secular movies, the eternal state of non-Christians, relationships with Non-Christians, all traditional Christian beliefs, etc. Some Christians have these realities as parts of their lives. Non-believers and unbelievers from my experience are not divided over social justice and denominations, but, the believers are. They're also more knowledgeable of all religions than believers from my experience. Social justice has gone down in church due to money loss, the fear of foreclosure, fear of public ridicule, fear of social rejection, and fear of career derailment. They sadly equate gay with rape, because of rapes of blacks by whites. Adults aren’t God, kids aren’t Satan, and do not ever cover up racism.      --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support