These are not just uniforms, they’re reminders. Reminders of how white supremacy has hidden itself behind religion, law, and state power, claiming God’s name while denying God’s image in black bodies.

From the hood to the pulpit. From the bench to the badge. From “law and order” to “Christian values.”

Too often, the Church has been silent, or worse, sanctified injustice, confusing power with righteousness and control with holiness.

But Jesus never aligned Himself with oppression. He stood with the crucified, not the crucifies.

Any Christianity that excuses racism, blesses brutality, or defends systems that harm the least of these is not the Gospel, it’s a distortion of it.

The Church must repent, resist, and return to the liberating Jesus who came “to set the oppressed free.”

 

                                                                                    ~Bishop Talbert Swan