Truth Telling

Denial. Dismissal. Deflection.

The knee jerk responses of mostly non-black people when confronted with America’s painful and oppressive history of Dis-Membering black people.

It seems easier to delight in the people, places and things that make America a great nation for some while ignoring the truths that makes it less than great for others. 

If 1 Corinthians 13 is a barometer for loving, and America has failed to rejoice in her truth then America has never loved black people. 

What’s more the Christian church in America has been complicit in the unloving by failing to delight in the truth about race.  

Deny:

The act of declaring something is not true. 

I.e. Racism doesn’t still exist. Slavery wasn’t as brutal as they say it was.  

Dismissal:

the act of treating something as unworthy of serious consideration

I.e. Why do we have to talk about it? It’s not the school’s job to teach that part of American history. 

Deflection:

an intense focus upon and antagonism toward the legitimacy of the actions, feelings, and beliefs of others

Truthtelling and Rejoicing in the Truth as acts of Resistance

Lisa Sharon Harper has declared February 2022 “Black Fortune Month” and released her latest book “Fortune”

#Blackfortunemonth will dovetail with the 1cor13project’s process thusly

By reading Fortune we will:

Rehearse: The Roots

Remind: Resistance

Remember: Repair

 #BlackFortune Month: February 

Truth telling as a form of

1cor13project kind of loving

“Joy is an act of resistance”

— Toi Derricotte The Telly Cycle

“Joy is a moral victory against extremism and a political win, fueling us to persist and resist. Joy is resistance to the hate that fills the front page.”

— Brittany Packnett Cunningham

“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers, which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.”

— Audre Lorde