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"Many of the same Black evangelicals who tell us God sees the heart of a person and not their color, when it comes to “Jesus Is King”, are the same people who want us to support them as they stand toe-to-toe with White evangelicals who refuse to acknowledge White supremacy. Meanwhile, I’m remembering from my bible study days there’s something in the good book about the instability of a double minded man. The same racist theology and ideologies that prop up TBN, GMA and Dove Awards ground “Jesus is King”. How are you trying to cut a thing from the root and replant it at the same time?

It’s important Black Christians name the racism present in White evangelical spaces. As more Black Christians who have been in and aligned with those spaces have their awakening, we’ll support them. Inherent in that support is truth telling and accountability. It requires we defend Black folks when White folks try it and it requires we set the record straight with each other when Black folks try it, too. It means saying the time has come for Christian media spaces to confess their complicity in our harm and it means telling Kirk that TBN, GMA and Dove “edited the African-American experience” long before they began editing his speeches. It means saying we can’t support projects that use a colorblind theology to silence the voices of the marginalized, whether that project is produced by the Gospel Music Association or G.O.O.D. Music. As brothers, Kirk vigorously defends Ye and calls his Sunday Services “his medicine”. At some point, I hope the two of them realize the same medicine Kanye needed to tell Howard University not to stand in the same place the next time “slave nets” fall is the same medicine TBN, GMA and the Dove Awards need to operate as if the murders of Black people at the hands of racist White police officers is urban legend."

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