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Pastors keep calling Kamala Harris a ‘Jezebel’ online and it’s super racist
The term s racist and misogynistic history goes back to the Colonial period. Feb 8, 2021, 12:43 pm Featured Video Hide
According to Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum, the Biblical term “Jezebel” was used as a stereotype “during slavery as a rationalization for sexual relations between white men and Black women, especially sexual unions involving slavers and slaves.” The museum states that the term’s usage mocks and objectifies African women, and it plays off of the same problematic images of Blackness pushed and created by European colonists. Advertisement
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California. | Gage Skidmore
Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear is urging pastors in the denomination to refrain from calling Vice President Kamala Harris “Jezebel” due to the racist connotations of the moniker. He is calling on them to honor and pray for her as an elected leader instead.
Greear’s guidance comes in the wake of SBC’s pastors, including SBC Executive Committee member Steve Swofford, referring to the vice president by the term.
“I realize that some pastors are likely unaware of the history of certain racial stereotypes in calling or comparing our Vice President to Jezebel, but that doesn’t make such statements any less unwise,” Greear, who pastors the multi-campus Summit Church in North Carolina, wrote in a Twitter thread Tuesday.
Over the past four years, conservative evangelicals have compared Donald Trump to King Cyrus, Queen Esther, Daniel, David, and Sampson. And now they have a biblical character for vice-president Kamala Harris: Jezebel. For those unfamiliar with this biblical character, she appears in the books of Kings and is referenced in the book of Revelation. In…