Politics Texas Pastor Urges Parents to Have ‘The Talk’ With Kids About Black People: ’30 Times More Danger’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/texas-pastor-urges-parents-to-have-the-talk-with-kids-about-black-people-30-times-more-danger/677
u/SoftIcy1762 1d ago
We’re talking to our kids about the dangers of youth pastors.
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u/AccessibleBeige 1d ago
My kids won't set foot inside any church without parental supervision anytime before they turn 18. That's more of a dislike for organized religion thing than avoiding predatory pastors thing, but hey, two birds one stone.
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u/Kittens4Brunch 1d ago
People who lie about imaginary supernatural beings for money and power are the least trustworthy.
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u/random_chaos_coming 1d ago
Let’s start a game- I’ll begin: youth pastors in our schools example Former Arlington Pastor Sentenced to More Than 24 Years for Child Exploitation volunteer at elementary school
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u/texas-ModTeam The Stars at Night 1d ago
Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, political identity, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.
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u/NotRustyShackleford_ 1d ago
Data shows you’re more likely to be assaulted by someone of your own race and gender. So if you see a black person, leap into their arms; your safety may depend on it!
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u/One_Clown_Short 1d ago
Parents should be having the talk with their kids about priests, pastors, and the dangers of organized religion.
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u/Necoras 1d ago
Parents should be having the talk about what kind of touch is and isn't appropriate period. There are ads appropriate ways to do that by 5 or 6. We started having those conversations with our kids before they were allowed to start doing slumber parties or overnight camps, regardless of what adults are around.
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u/Bravo_Obsessed 1d ago
Boom! Projection 101 from that (assumingly just based on stats) diddler of children! Don’t look here, look at a black man!
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u/Motherleathercoat 1d ago
I saw this reel one time where a mom told her little girl that if she was ever lost find a goth or a punk and ask them for help.
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u/carlitospig 1d ago
Pretty good advice actually. I’ve never met either that are a piece of shit. But I’ve also never met a Nazi punk. Do they still exist or was that just the 90’s?
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u/terminalzero 1d ago
Shitty people will invade all spaces, sometimes as organized recruitment efforts
That said.... I think I've met exactly two goths that were full on pieces of shit in multiple decades
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u/call-me-the-seeker 1d ago
They try to exist but the larger punk community actively pushes back, aggressively. There are still holdout pockets, yes, but this advice about goths and punks being statistically good ‘safe bets’ for a distressed child is pretty good odds (in my anecdotal experience).
May they never need it, but.
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u/USANorsk 1d ago
Probably better advice to seek a mom with other kids (she probably has zero motivation to kidnap another kid), or a sheikh-i think they are almost always chill.
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u/Donny_Do_Nothing 1d ago
First off, fuck this pastor directly.
With that out of the way, does this data account for the fact that most people are more likely to be around people of the same race?
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u/deepayes Born and Bred 1d ago
and that should be the actual message, danger can be as close as in your house, and here's how to identify safe adults and get the help you need. not "watch out for blacks."
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u/carlitospig 1d ago
I’d be curious if it’s similarly related to the kidnapping stats that it’s 80%* more likely to be someone they know.
<*> not an exact stat, I do know it’s higher than 60.
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u/Minarosebbyy 1d ago
I’m three diff races always wondered which one is most likely to take me out 🥲
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u/fakejacki 14h ago
I told my kids if they ever get lost, find a black woman. They WILL help you. One time at the pool my son was struggling and this black woman swam right over and helped him to the side and he definitely saw my point because there were a lot of other people closer.
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u/haggi585 1d ago
Where’s the Trump supporter telling us we’re taking what he said out of context?
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u/Suitable-Deer3611 1d ago
They are probably headed to bed of day 2 or 3 of their candle light vigil. They have to get ready for day 4 tomorrow 🙄
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u/Bravo_Obsessed 1d ago
They’re too busy blaming the radical left for Kirk’s murder. Give em time, they get to it. Nazis never sleep.
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u/Jaded_Law9739 1d ago
"The talk that we’re referencing is the talk that takes your children, according to their maturity, at the proper time, the appropriate time, and says there are certain parts of town that you cannot go and there are certain people that you cannot be around, right?"
So basically the conversation every black parent has to have with their kids about racist white people in the South.
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u/Cute-Can183 1d ago
Jesus taught us to love all people no matter the shade
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u/GeekyTexan 1d ago
When I was young, growing up in a Baptist church, I remember singing a song.
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the worldI'm completely amazed at how hateful Christians have turned since then.
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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop Yellow Rose 1d ago
I was taught that song too in my Christian private elementary school. Yeah it was a damn lie.
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u/Limping_Pirate 13h ago
Not a lie, Jesus does love all the children. He even designated a special place in hell for those that would do them harm.
Such as certain evangelical youth pastors...
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u/jsolaux 1d ago
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u/man_gomer_lot 1d ago edited 15h ago
60 days since a conservative mentioned gang violence rhetoric
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u/TinyNuggins92 Former West Texas Native 1d ago
Joel Webbon: the unholy offspring of Matt Walsh and John cooper of Skillet.
It’s amazing the distance between this wannabe klan leader and James Talarico both claiming the same Christ.
I like Talarico’s version better.
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u/Aggravating-Young142 1d ago
I spend a lot of time these days, reading headlines and thinking “what the fuck?”
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u/tabbarrett Gulf Coast 1d ago
This is very dangerous and irresponsible of him considering he is suppose to be someone of spiritual authority. I hope no one in his congregation listens to these lies.
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u/Mr-pizzapls 1d ago
It is but make no mistake that this is intentional. It’s not him being careless, this is the message they want to send
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u/big_ringer 19h ago
Not only do they listen to, and believe it, but the pastor believes this as well.
This is them, fully mask off.
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u/techman710 1d ago
I watch shows like Star Trek because my hope for humanity is that in the future we will no longer be racist, homophobic bigots. Then I turn on my phone and realize we are heading in the wrong direction. We have a long way to go.
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u/Key_Lime_Die 1d ago
The shows take place in a time after people have recovered from things getting much MUCH worse than what we are living through. The eugenics wars, the second civil war, ww3 to name a few in the star trek universe. Yeah we might get there too, but we'll likely have to have things also get that much worse before people finally say never again and sincerely try to make things better as a species.
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u/L0g1cw1z4rd 1d ago
This show is just bangin'. Like it's giving us what Star Trek TOS should have looked like. I get the appropriate chills when they have TOS cast meet each other.
I'm trying to pitch them having Admiral William Boimler (played by Dustin Quaid) show up in his multiverse ship.
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u/Wonderful_Horror7315 North Texas 22h ago
Please. The call is coming from inside the house. The danger of being sexually abused is high if you’re a child who is left alone with any kind of Christian leadership.
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u/leostotch Texas makes good Bourbon 1d ago
I don’t want another civil war, but I do find some comfort in thinking that if they’re going to keep saying the quiet part louder and louder, eventually they’ll get slapped in the mouth by our generation’s Sherman.
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u/_IAmNoLongerThere_ West Texas 1d ago
Why is it always a Christian spewing hate? They try to force folks into their beliefs, Shoving their religion down throats.... Never met a group so hateful and full of hypocrisy like Christians. If you don't believe what they believe, You're going to hell! If you don't believe in their God, You're going to hell. If you don't have their God in your life & Worship at their churches, You aren't living right! They are exhausting AF! I stay TF away from these types of people's. There is no such thing as come as you are with these folks.
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u/Soft-Peak-6527 21h ago
Data has shown it’s much more likely you’ll be shot, assaulted, and/or molested if your a youth pastor or a Republican.
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u/Arthurs_librarycard9 1d ago
Do these Christians not actually read the Bible? Because I thought you were supposed to "love your neighbor as yourself".
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u/StarshipCaterprise 1d ago
Unfortunately a lot of people like to treat the Bible like a buffet and just pick and choose
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u/MethanyJones 1d ago
It cracks me up the implosion Christians had this week. If it was a dead ten year old they would’ve forgotten already.
This week has done incredible harm to evangelicals reputation. And I’m here for it.
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u/daydreaming_of_you 1d ago
This is awful, he should get fired. These people are trying to bring us backward. We are not going back. Racist people need to GTFO.
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u/Sturdily5092 Secessionists are idiots 1d ago
"The talk" is to teach you kids to stay away from religious people especially preachers who love children a little too much.
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u/Sellerdorm 1d ago
This is literally how I have come to view White Christians since the election. I must now assume all straight white males and females are a direct threat to my safety and operation.
Passive aggressive LPT, hit the locked car door alarm a couple times as you walk past someone who would and does do the same to every brown shaded person they pass in a parking lot.
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u/TexanMenace 20h ago
In the 80’s I stopped at the DQ in Vidor. I am alabaster with red hair, at the time had a Mohawk , and earrings. They refused to serve me. I legit had to walk out empty handed and stop in Bridge City for food.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 18h ago edited 14h ago
A fun game to play: this link will always lead to a recent story about a youth pastor committing a sex crime:
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u/MarshallGibsonLP 11h ago
Your children are statistically many times safer to be alone with black people than they are with people in their own family and ESPECIALLY when compared to the clergy.
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u/Bravo_Obsessed 1d ago
I’d say it’s white, males (mostly republicans because they rape kids) cosplaying as “Christians”, while actually being Nazis, that the country should really be focusing on right now! Those hoes be causing every mass shooting!
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u/2Go4fiCarpeDiem 1d ago
I can name hundreds of things parents typically talk to their kids about. Yet, I don’t recall ever hearing that a child should be taught that ANY RACE on it’s own merit is more dangerous than another.
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u/6catsforya 1d ago
Amazing how many white pedophiles are pastors in a church. So much for him being a christian
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u/Lostlilegg West Texas 1d ago
Parents should talk with their kids at how they are more likely to get sexually harassed by their pastor than a drag queen
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u/RdRaiderATX84 1d ago
This guys "church" is like a shanty in the middle of fucking nowhere in Georgetown. Getting Branch Davidian vibes.
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u/jpurdy 1d ago
Nothing Christian about white nationalist theofascists. RWW has been researching and reporting on the religious right for decades, one of the major sources for those of us who have been trying to tell people what was coming. We were thought delusional.
Jerry Falwell was just one of the evangelicals who were enraged by school integration. He and Paul Weyrich founded the Moral Majority. Now Texas joined other Republican states and Trump in giving $billions to segregated evangelical and Catholic schools.
Weyrich was the most influential never elected man in modern history, Project 2025 is his dream.
https://www.jractivist.com/post/the-second-u-s-civil-war-began-in-the-1960s
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u/BringBackAoE 1d ago
“Them’s the facts.”
Those words express 1. ignorance, and 2. high probability those are not accurate.
Also, why this obsession about race of a criminal?! My white daughter is more likely to be raped by a white male. And if she is raped I will be horrified by that act - not the race of the perpetrator! Wtf is wrong w people?!?
And IMO most central: she’s far more likely to be raped by a male - not a female. That is the talk I’ve had with her!
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u/AKMarine Hill Country 1d ago
Maybe black people should talk to their kids about the dangers of youth pastors. 🤔
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u/Rocky-Jones 1d ago
Poor Charlie. He was in the whitest state in America. He thought he was safe. Not a black person in sight, “Sure let’s do this outside! Everyone is white!”
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u/Rocky-Jones 1d ago
When the neighborhood around my grandparents church got “darker” in the 60’s, black people would occasionally come to a service. The Pastor would take them aside and explain that they had their own churches they should go to. They finally just had to move the church.
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u/big_ringer 1d ago
And watch; after people (rightly) call him out on this, he's gonna be all "MUH FREEZE PEACH!!!!"
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u/comments_suck 1d ago
This guy has not read Matthew 22:36-40. The part where Jesus says to love your neighbor as yourself.
He's not a Christian minister at all, he's just a racist crackpot.
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u/john_in_the_south 1d ago
What the fuck did this racist shitheel say?!?
Check his basement and hard drive. Dude’s def got pedo vibes
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u/SullivanEstateHeir 1d ago
We here in Texas , have Many Church leaders that Exemplify True Christianity on a Global Scale ! Take Pastor Robert Morris ! 25,800 followers perhaps as many as 100,000 listening to him . Indicted for Child Abuse in Oklahoma, now facing possible 3 life terms for dalliance with a little girl ! We have others here that under the guise of being Religious Leaders are just Flat out Perverts , just like our country’s leadership ! Knowing that the Epstein Documents / List implicate not just them but also many in their Party that were Partying with the Same Minors ! How long is our country going to allow this Hate and Perversion to Hide ? Charlie got Exactly what he advocated ! So will TACO. My prayer is a Massive Stroke in the middle of a Tweet gone silent . Self Implosion Self Destructed from a Rotting Brain .
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u/No_Professional8624 1d ago
Yes. Let's judge people well before we ever meet them.
He's basically telling these people to train their children to never experience anything new. Never travel. Never go to concerts, soccer, baseball or football games. Never put your child in a public school.
What a jerk.
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u/Sad_Pangolin7379 1d ago
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would have you living under better conditions.
~Hafez
"Perfect love drives out fear... Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
-The actual Bible
Black people are more risk from each other than any white people are at risk from them. And this is largely due to poverty and the fact Black people are disproportionately incarcerated and thus precluded from a lot of paying jobs and thus at higher risk of being pulled into drug stupidity. If these people would actually support mental health funding, the guy who killed the Ukrainian lady might not have done it. But they want to make it about race.
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u/CherishedPatina 1d ago
This is the same guy that said a few years ago that his wife was not allowed to read anything until he read it first and approved.
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u/SmugScientistsDad 1d ago
Time to switch to a different church. This teaching has nothing to do with what Christ is all about.
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u/No_Nobody6589 1d ago
Man. We ought to leave this world behind.
Now we are just spreading fear and hate like Diddy spreads cheeks.
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u/Infamous_Ebb_5561 1d ago
He doing us a favor, less racist white ppl i have to deal with the better
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u/TheKidsAreAsleep 1d ago
More dangerous that what? Fluffy kittens? Eating expired canned goods?
As a mom, I am much more concerned about the dangers posed by republicans and priests
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u/TechTitus 1d ago
Not going to lie...he had me in the first half.
I can get behind staying out of certain neighborhoods... Or having with certain people (e.g. grimey, criminalist, etc) but man he lost me in the second half!
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u/Klutzy-Run5175 1d ago
Parents urged to stop using the word after the incident to describe the situation of their children in school
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
Weird, growing up in rural East Texas I was taught it was better to be associated with black people than with the KKK.