Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
@RevJacquiLewis
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Fixing broken theology with Just Love| Host: LovePeriod Podcast| Author: Fierce Love| Senior Minister @middlechurch | Book me: [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined May 2012
So damn tired of living in a country that treats Black grief as a threat and white rage as a sacrament.
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18 years old and writing about white genocide before he went out to massacre Black folks buying groceries. But tell me again how we don’t need antiracism education in schools.
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So mask mandates violate our freedom but forced childbearing doesn't?.
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When teachers quit by the hundreds of thousands, the problem isn’t teachers. It’s a system that doesn’t value and support their work.
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Stop glorifying "the founders' intent." The founders intended me to be in chains.
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A functional society does not have a shortage of teachers and nurses and an overabundance of police.
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“Real marriage is between a man and a woman. Other couples will never share that kind of love.” . Hmm, I just watched Cherelle Griner fight for 294 days until her wife was freed.
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This Uvalde footage should run anytime journalists treat police reports as fact.
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Using gender-inclusive language does not deny my womanhood. Liberation is collective.
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Watching Luke Combs sing beside Tracy Chapman with such obvious reverence makes the difference between appropriation and appreciation crystal clear. When someone engages source material in a spirit of love, it shows. Count all the ways he centers her, not himself 👇🏾.
Full performance of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys. Her smile at the beginning is the best.
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White supremacy is when Sen. Mullin can comfortably post threats brandishing guns, but Rep. Tlaib is censured for demanding a ceasefire.
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“They bring disease” is genocidal language.
In South Texas, we’re seeing #COVID positivity rates rising and it’s a direct result of illegal aliens being released into communities.
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The court just ruled that taxpayers must fund religious education. We are hurtling towards theocracy.
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Murder is still murder when the killer wears a badge.
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I don’t want to hear any criticism about what Black voters did or didn’t do when the majority of white voters chose fascism.
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If Black kids are old enough to experience racism, white kids are old enough to read about it.
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We can’t even finish trying one police officer before another murder. It’s not about “one bad apple.” It’s about a culture of death and domination that must be dismantled.
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If you’re not careful, the media will have you angry at how folks respond when our rights are stolen, instead of the folks who are stealing them.
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It's depressing how much of our national life is spent arguing over whether we truly need to treat all people with dignity and respect.
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There aren’t “two sides” to bombing a hospital.
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At a talk today, I said “fascists” and a nice liberal person replied “I wish you wouldn’t call people names.”. Fascism isn’t an insult. It’s a description. And we need to be crystal clear what we’re facing if we want to overcome it.
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A reminder that Marissa Alexander was jailed for firing a *warning shot into a wall* after her ex-husband threatened to kill her. Florida said she had no right to "Stand Her Ground.". One country. Two justice systems.
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It’s not just the Capitol:. Folks tried to run the Biden/Harris bus off the road in Texas. In Michigan, people tried to kidnap the governor. In Oregon, they stormed the legislature guns drawn. White supremacy is our greatest threat and we must face it head-on.
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Incarcerated people must be a vaccination priority.
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This country consistently holds protesters to a higher standard than police.
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Carving swastikas into your gun before you hunt Black people isn’t mental illness. It’s white supremacy. We need to be damn clear about that, because the solutions to those two problems are very different. It’s not brain chemistry, it’s a worldview that doesn’t see us as human.
We have a mental health crisis. We have a lot of sick people in this country. It’s really sad that people like @jemelehill and @JoyAnnReid constantly call everything racist. They never let a crisis go to waste. I wonder if they commented on this story….
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“Why wasn’t he calm during the arrest?” . For starters, in a country where police routinely kill people who look like you, it’s very hard to stay calm.
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When police are searching classrooms for books, we have a crisis in both education and policing.
A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint. The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book
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I’m not dreaming of police officers convicted when they murder. I dream of Black folks living old and thriving.
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@BBCWorld “Women felt the impact of the pandemic more because of the jobs they do and the role they play in family life.”. This suffering is not “minimal.”.
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100 votes to celebrate Black freedom but can’t muster 50 votes for Black voting rights. Keep your symbols, we need liberation.
WATCH: The Senate unanimously passes a bill establishing Juneteenth as a national holiday. The bill now heads to the House.
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“What was Ryan Coogler using $12k to pay for, anyway?”. Probably his own damn business.
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There is literally no reason to block this other than racism.
The GOP blocked a Senate bill to ban hair discrimination, which has already passed the House. The CROWN Act would ban discrimination of hairstyles and textures associated with race, like locs and braids. Studies show Black women are 1.5x more likely to be sent home from work.
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There’s no way to solve the climate crisis without ending capitalism.
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Truly stunning to watch folks who supported a President who lives in golden palaces become enraged that Madame Vice President bought an enamel pot.
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What, exactly, is left on this table?.
A plan to provide two years of free community college to all eligible students is off the table, Jill Biden will say in a speech on Monday. It will be her starkest acknowledgment yet that a measure she had championed is dead.
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Abortion access can’t be separated from laws attacking trans kids’ bodily autonomy. It’s all connected—one campaign to structure US law around evangelical faith. Liberation is collective. We only get free when we fight for all of us.
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Odd how there’s never a “right time” for women to speak about abuse.
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When will we prioritize women’s safety over men’s reputations?.
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You don't "hate pronouns." You hate the people who are using them. If that makes you uncomfortable, good. It should. You either respect how people are asking you to know and name them, or you don't. But stop pretending it's about language.
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Judges are scoring her new move at a lower difficulty out of “fear that Biles is so good that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot.”. Facing Black excellence, just change the rules.
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No money for parks. No money for schools. No money for housing. More money for the NYPD.
Due to the national lifeguard shortage, unfortunately we will not be hosting swim programs, including lap swim, senior swim, and Learn to Swim, at our outdoor pools this summer. Outdoor pools will remain open each day for general swim from 11am-3pm and from 4pm–7pm.
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Whiteness confuses consequences with cancellation because it cannot imagine a world where it is not simply entitled to power.
Impeachment is the zenith of cancel culture.
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If critical race theory threatens your Christianity, you may be worshipping whiteness.
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Raising $1,300,000 for Daniel Penny is a publicly sponsored lynching. It’s communal celebration, like taking home a picture of the tree.
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Democrats need to stop kindly requesting freedom from people in the business of making shackles.
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If you arrest your own students for protesting peacefully, you have no business running a university. Shame on Columbia. You say you're training tomorrow's leaders, then send in riot cops when they speak their conscience?.
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They loved affirmative action when it was for white folks and they called it “legacy.”.
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You can’t celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and say Palestinians don’t have a right to their homeland.
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Absolutely marijuana should be legal. It’s been legal for rich, white people for quite a while.
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Raise your hand if you're Black and have also been called "difficult," "rude," or "abrasive.".
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This is exactly why we were worried about electing Biden. We need leadership that understands we are on the brink of social collapse and acts accordingly.
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If you cry “cancel culture” every time we try to address racism, it’s just very clear you don’t want to cancel racism.
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A child forced to give birth will not be comforted to know that the Senator who stole her rights was wearing a three-piece suit.
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We're really having a public debate about whether slavery was good for enslaved people. That's how deep our political life has descended into overt white supremacy.
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Stop demanding Black communities respond to incessant death with equanimity and grace. It’s soul crushing.
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Toxic masculinity culture is an awards show just rolling through physical assault, Will sitting in his chair.
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Racism is “struggling” to pronounce Kamala but saying Tchaikovsky just fine.
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No one is born racist. This young man was molded and shaped. While politicians were busy talking about how antiracism is what’s poisoning our public life.
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The safest communities aren’t the ones that are policed most heavily. They’re the ones that receive robust investments in education and quality of life. Stop pouring money into violent “solutions.” They will not free us. That was never their design.
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News reports need to start naming how this teacher shortage is a crisis deliberately created by people who want public schools to fail. We did not get here by accident.
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Trans rights are more important than cis people’s feelings.
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A country that treats the filibuster as more sacred than the vote has no business calling itself a democracy.
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Equating all Jewish people with the state of Israel is antisemitism.
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
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Transphobia kills. Period. Brianna Ghey deserved better. She should still be smiling. She should flourish and dance. She should just get to be a kid, not a headline. May her memory be a revolution.
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There are no gay diseases. And public health officials do everyone—but particularly LGBTQIA+ folks—a grave disservice when they pretend there are.
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A distorted moral landscape is every tv channel prioritizing a queen’s funeral over hundreds of thousands of neighbors without water or power.
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If we trusted Anita Hill, we wouldn’t be here. And we can never say that enough.
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This is literally a trial about whether it’s acceptable to leave your home and hunt Black people. Just to say where we are.
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If you’re going to be racist, spare us the code words.
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In a world full of bystanders, love swims across a river to even the odds.
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Dehumanizing people is a prelude to killing people. Period. That is its function.
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Calling queer folks "groomers" incites murder.
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People who oppose teaching about racism in schools are saying white children are too fragile to learn about what other children experience.
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I am cisgender. That is not a slur, it is a truth. The only people offended by the word “cis” are people who prefer their identity to be the only acceptable form of being. That’s not courage, it’s bigotry. And it’s the kind of story that leads to genocide.
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Congress should have higher ethical standards than Twitter.
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“We all know someone who is more outraged by Colin Kaepernick’s knee than Derek Chauvin’s. No one hates like a Christian who’s just been told their hate isn’t Christian.” - @JohnFugelsang #RevLove21.
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"Today my family is whole.". Just WEEPING watching this kind of love. Can't wait til you get to hug and kiss your beloved. Thanks for showing us what devotion looks like. ❤️❤️❤️.
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Don’t you dare say, “This isn’t who we are.”.
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This court is making it abundantly clear that it seeks to bend US law to white evangelical demands. The question is whether Democrats will simply watch and let that happen. Add justices to the court. The number of people in robes isn’t more important than our freedom.
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I can't believe our nation is no longer focused on news about mass hysterectomies in concentration camps. You know who I guarantee has not moved on? People who had their wombs ripped out.
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No one gave Michael Phelps ankle weights. When it’s a white athlete who towers above the field, we simply praise their prowess. When it’s a Black athlete, we have to keep it close 😒.
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In courtrooms, white tears are treated with far greater dignity than Black life, and that's all I have to say about this mess.
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We are devastated and crushed that our beloved physical sanctuary at Middle Collegiate Church has burned. And yet no fire can stop Revolutionary Love.
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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” - Hélder Câmara.
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Parents do not own their children. Kids are people, not things. They have a right to privacy about their sexuality and gender identity—to choose when and to whom they share those intimate details about their life.
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Cannabis is now a $22.5 billion industry. More than 40,000 people are currently imprisoned for possessing marijuana. A true #420day celebration would be liberation and reparations.
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The silence of Cori Bush’s white colleagues in the face of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s racism is *very* familiar to Black women. And it’s absolutely infuriating.
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