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10/13/2026

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10/11/2026

Just because this is part of my spiritual heritage

10/11/2026

The history is the history

10/06/2026

This

10/05/2026

Wow

Freedom ❤️🖤💚 | 12 comments on LinkedIn

10/05/2026

10/01/2026

Great questions

Dear Children of the Chalk,

Why are so many of y’all always in Black spaces trying to referee Black pain?

Why are you on Black people’s pages, in Black people’s conversations, under Black sermons, policing how we describe racism, correcting how we interpret injustice, and demanding that we process America from the comfort of your privileged perch?

Why is our lived experience always up for cross-examination by people who have never had to live it?

Why do white preachers come into my space and act like their theological lens is neutral, universal, and automatically more biblical than mine? Why do they assume I am supposed to preach Scripture through their history, their politics, their comfort, and their worldview while ignoring the Black prophetic tradition, the Black Church, and generations of Black Christians who had to find a liberating God in a nation that used Christianity to justify our oppression?

What is it about whiteness in America that makes melanin deficient folks believe they are entitled to be the narrator, the interpreter, the theologian, the historian, and the final authority in everybody else’s story?

Why can’t you listen without trying to control the narrative?

Why can’t you enter a Black space without trying to dominate it?

Why can’t Black people name what we see, preach what we know, interpret Scripture through our own lived reality, and speak about this country without somebody white showing up to tell us we’re doing Christianity, history, justice, or America wrong?

That is the question.

Why do you think you get to dictate how Black people see the world?

Talbert Swan

09/29/2026

History

09/29/2026

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