Bishop Talbert Swan

He darn sure wasn’t white

The Spoken Word with Bishop Talbert Swan x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We’re not going back without a fight! twitter.com/i/spaces/1PKqr…

White people are out here white peopleing. The ink isn’t even dry on the Supreme Court’s decision, and their response is exactly what history warned us about. The moment protections were weakened, the rush to redraw maps and dilute Black voting power exposed the truth, these laws were never “outdated,” they were inconvenient to those who have always feared the Black vote. This is not new behavior, it’s a continuation. The same impulse that needed to be restrained in 1965 is alive and active in 2026, just dressed in legal language instead of white hoods. Every attempt to undermine our vote proves why the Voting Rights Act was necessary in the first place, and why the fight to protect it is far from over.

MLK gave his life so Black Americans could have the right to vote. White people quoting MLK to justify gutting the VRA is diabolical.

White Americans in 2026 are every bit as racist as their predecessors were 1n 1960. They love quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when it’s safe, sanitized, and stripped of its sting. They post his lines about unity, peace, dreams, and being judged by the content of your character, while ignoring that the fact that King was arrested, surveilled, hated, and ultimately killed for confronting the very systems they now defend. They celebrate his words but reject his work. Because the same movement that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, facing clubs, tear gas, and bloodshed, forced this nation to pass the Voting Rights Act. And now, as that very law is being dismantled piece by piece, the same people quoting King are applauding the rollback. They praise the man while betraying the mission. They honor the quote while opposing the cause. They invoke Selma but side with the forces that made Selma necessary. The racism didn’t disappear, it just learned how to dress itself in court opinions and talking points. In 2026 it’s no different in substance than it was in the 1960s. The hypocrisy is as clear as ever. They don’t want King the agitator, they want King the ornament. We must now summon the strength of our ancestors, lean on the God of our weary years, and continue the fight they started, because quitting was never an option, and freedom has never been given, only won.

Let’s put this dishonest “double standard” argument to rest once and for all. Blackface is not harmless imitation, it is rooted in a long, ugly history of minstrel shows where white performers caricatured Black people as lazy, ignorant, criminal, and subhuman to justify slavery, segregation, and systemic oppression. It wasn’t just offensive, it was a tool used to normalize white supremacy and shape how Black people were treated in real life. There is no equivalent history where Black people used “white face” to dominate, dehumanize, or oppress white people. There is no history of laws, policies, or violence reinforced by caricatures of white inferiority. So no, a white person adorning Blackface it is not the same as a Black comedian cosplaying a white woman. That’s not a double standard, that’s the difference between oppression and satire, between punching down and punching up, between racism and comedy. Calling that hypocrisy isn’t insight, it’s gaslighting. You don’t get to ignore history, erase power dynamics, and then pretend the two are equal. Miss me with the false equivalence.

Erika Kirk stood before the world and declared forgiveness for Tyler Robinson, the young white MAGA man who murdered her husband Charlie, but she wants to lynch Druski, a Black man, for making a skit. Make it make sense.

Let’s call this what it is, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s moral fraud. Franklin Graham had no problem demonizing Barack Obama, a faithful husband, scandal-free, disciplined, educated, Black man, the very embodiment of the “bootstraps” gospel white evangelicals preach about, as some kind of threat, even suggesting that he was antichrist. Yet, the same Graham bows in reverence to Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, unrepentant racist, porn star banging, pathological liar, with a trail of infidelity, exploitation, documented racism, and associations with convicted child sex traffickers, and has the caucasity to call him “raised up by God.” That’s not discernment, that’s deception, dishonesty, and disregard for the sacred text he claims to believe. The standard didn’t change, the subject did. Obama’s integrity was dismissed because he was Black. Trump’s corruption is sanctified because he is white and politically useful. Graham isn’t applying scripture, he’s weaponizing it. He ignores sin when it serves power, then quotes the Bible to justify the very wickedness it condemns. That’s not Christianity, that’s idolatry of whiteness, wrapped in religious language and draped in a flag.  This is hypocrisy at its highest level: Calling evil good when it benefits you, and calling good evil when it threatens your power. And then having the audacity to say God said it.

Paula White-Cain didn’t just cross a line, she obliterated it. To compare Donald Trump to Jesus Christ is not just bad theology, it’s blasphemy wrapped in political propaganda. It’s heresy. Jesus said, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” Trump deports Black and brown immigrants and cages children at the border. Jesus said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Trump protects and surrounds himself with men tied to child exploitation, shielding rich and powerful pedophiles while the vulnerable suffer. Jesus healed the sick. Trump strips healthcare from them. Jesus fed the hungry. Trump cuts SNAP benefits and calls it policy. Jesus stood with “the least of these.” Trump neglects, demonizes, and exploits them. Jesus was a brown-skinned man from the region of Northeast Africa. Trump has a documented history of degrading Black people from that region, calling them “garbage,” and calling their countries “sh*tholes.” This is a mockery of Christianity and in affront to the Gospel. This is what you call idolatry, the elevation of a corrupt political figure to messianic status. Every preacher who sat there and nodded, every “spiritual leader” who clapped, every so called Christian who defends this madness, you are not defending Christ, you are betraying Him. You cannot preach Jesus and promote Trump as His equivalent. You cannot serve God and bow to Caesar. This is heresy. This is hypocrisy. This is a dangerous distortion of the Gospel.

Note the silence of the pro-life folks when their president threatened genocide, to kill innocent, civilian, men, women, and children 

Only in America can a white man be convicted 34 times, adjudicated as a rapist, impeached twice, accused of molesting children, refuse to put his hand on the Bible when being sworn into office, never attend church, lie with reckless abandon, have sex with porn stars, be a serial adulterer, threatened to commit genocide, disrespect the pope, blasphemously depict himself as Christ, and still be compared to Jesus. Make it make sense.

Please stop, @VanJones68 Grief deserves compassion, but it does not grant credibility, and it certainly does not baptize a record of division into moral authority. When you call Erika Kirk a figure of “tremendous moral authority,” you’re not building a bridge, you’re rewriting history in real time. Erika Kirk is connected to the same ecosystem as Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, an organization that has consistently trafficked in racial grievance, fueled cultural hostility, and excused the very extremism you now expect her to oppose. You don’t get to platform people who have helped normalize dehumanization, wink at political violence, spew anti Black rhetoric, and defend January 6, and then suddenly crown them as moral leaders because tragedy struck their household. That is not reconciliation; that is revisionism. This tired “both sides” performance is not courage; it is cover. It asks Black people to ignore the asymmetry of harm and to pretend that those who have weaponized race, distorted truth, and inflamed division are equal partners in healing the damage they helped create. No. We can pray for her family without pretending she represents moral clarity. We can reject violence without sanitizing those who have fueled it. And we can demand accountability without being gaslit into false equivalence. Moral authority is not claimed in a moment of grief. It is earned over a lifetime of truth, justice, and integrity. On that measure, this claim does not stand.

.@MELANIATRUMP…sit down 🪑 🤫

Back when comedy had courage, truth wasn’t hidden behind politeness, it was delivered with a punchline. @JimmyKimmelLive did exactly that, calling out Stephen Miller with a joke that landed because it wasn’t just funny, it was rooted in reality. The best comedians don’t just make you laugh, they make you confront what you’d rather ignore.

It was a joke, and a funny one at that. Jimmy Kimmel’s entire monologue was hilarious. At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, sharp humor is the tradition, not the exception. The same people clutching pearls over Jimmy Kimmel are the ones who sat silent or cheered while Donald Trump built a political brand on insults, threats, and dehumanizing rhetoric. They said nothing while Donald and Melania pushed the racist birther conspiracy to question the legitimacy of Barack Obama Obama, the nation’s first Black president. Calling a joke about Melania Trump “violent” while excusing years of actual violent language isn’t moral outrage, it’s selective outrage dressed up as virtue.

The same crowd clutching pearls over Jimmy Kimmel today had no problem quoting Psalm 109 when Barack Obama was in office. they made T-shirts, bumper, stickers, and social media memes that said “Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8.” The passage says this: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.” - Psalm 109:8-12 They invoked scripture to cloak what was, at its core, a prayer for death, destruction, and generational suffering. Now those same voices want to act morally outraged because a comedian made a joke about Melania Trump being a widow. Melania was silent about them praying for Michelle Obama to be a widow. She was also pushing her husband‘s racist birther conspiracy. Now she wants to clutch her pearls when the heat comes her way. You cannot spend years weaponizing the Bible to wish death on a Black president and his family, then suddenly discover “decency” when the target changes. MAGA are unrepentant racists and counterfeit Christians, who use the Bible as a prop while living in direct contradiction to the Christ they claim to follow.

Not once did Malaria condemn those who called Michelle Obama a man, a ‘gorilla in heels,’ etc. She also pushed the racist birther conspiracy. I don’t care what she has to say about Jimmy Kimmel.

Malaria said nothing when Trump threatened to murder 93 million Iranian civilians. I don’t care what she says about Jimmy Kimmel. 

They lost their minds when Michelle Obama said America was going through a “janky” period under Trump. Well, America has… A convict and a call girl as President and First Lady A former Fox News host, who paid to settle a sexual assault case, as Secretary of the Department of Defense The former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, who is accused of covering up the sexual abuse of minors, over the Department of Education A heroin addict accused of sexual assault by the family babysitter, over the Department of Health & Human Services A plumber with a two year community college degree as secretary of Homeland Security If that ain’t janky, I don’t know what it is.