So I explained to her, for instance, that as a Black woman, with enslaved ancestors who were assuredly denied the right to control their reproduction, I do not have the luxury of a depoliticized theology that misses how political decisions impact the actual lives of real people.

But I engaged her in “Christian love” and exceeding patience because I guess I hold out hope that if some of these conservative white women would see the light, things could change for the better. I certainly do not have the patience of Job on a good day, and I definitely don’t on a bad day. While I am a Christian, a preacher’s kid, and a licensed minister - I never have time for white Evangelical bullshit. Wade, one of these friends inserted herself into a Facebook thread to comment that it was not the Court’s decision that was “brutal.” Rather, she told us, “ abortions are brutal for the unborn.” In the midst of my outraged lament over the Supreme Court’s devastating decision to overturn Roe v. When you grow up a Black girl in a predominantly white small town in the Deep South, you learn to see white people’s capacity for both humanity and oppression, early, as a matter of survival.ĭays like today test those bonds of friendship.

Our friendships mostly thrive in the environs of Facebook, as nostalgic vestiges of my high-school days, and my sense that despite significant political disagreements, these people are deep down fundamentally decent. I have one or two white conservative Evangelical friends left. Photo: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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