For more than two weeks, I saw y’all post 101 commentaries about that lady’s dress. Some of y’all even wrote commentaries about the commentary. Somebody went viral for his derogatory comments about the dress from the pulpit. (For the record, I thought the dress was beautiful. I wish I could pull it off and that ‘pastor’ was way out of line.”)
And now those same people are providing discourse on Druski’s megachurch skit. This is the first Druski skit I ever watched in full, and while I chuckled a few times, I didn’t think it was that funny. I’ve seen way more hilarious things happen in actual churches. For instance, this one time at our last church home, this lady charged the pulpit, and in trying to wrangle her away, one of the deacons accidentally knocked the lady’s wig off. Then they tried to put it back on her, but they did it backwards. Fifteen years later, the deacons are still arguing about who was the guilty party. I am laughing now just thinking about it.
Which one of us as a kid didn’t reenact something funny we saw at church? Who among us hasn’t laughed at what is supposed to have been a sacred moment? The church can be a place where funny things happen. So no, I wasn’t offended by Druski’s Louboutin loafers.
What I am offended by is the silence of our churches as armed men smash in doors and car windows, and disappear people off our streets. I am upset the church hasn’t publicly wrapped their arms around Renee Good’s widow and children. I am upset that we are not calling for both justice and peace.
How could Dr. Turner-Bryant’s dress have been more offensive than extrajudicial murders carried out by government agents? How could a comedy skit rile us up more than what is actually happening to our neighbors? I want all those people talking about Christian modesty and “Holiness is right” to talk about issues that actually matter. I think targeting Illusion fabric and a comedian who wears designers whose first names happen to be Christian are safe and easy targets.
It’s harder to address injustice and persecution. It’s even harder to admit that the church has not only been complicit in said injustices, but that we have often perpetuated those injustices against our own members.
But until the church is able to do that, it will be harder for some people to ever take us serious.
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