“When Trump told her [Paula White—emphasis mine] he was running for president and wanted her to be his “bridge” to the Christian right, she introduced him to 30 or 40 pastors at a time.” The Daily Beast—Eleanor Clift
Dear Paula:
Girrrl, you’ve come a long way since Tupelo, Mississippi! Look at you! I read that #47 made you Head of the White House Faith Office in exchange for what you did to help him garner the Christian vote. You must be so proud … Sitting at the right hand of the Unholy One that you personally helped install to the Presidency.
Full disclaimer here: I used to watch you on TV all the time. I can’t say that I was a diehard fan, but I liked you. You were scrappy and straight-shooting and seemed to have a genuine love for Jesus. Especially when you were on BET trying to get poor Black folks to have a more abundant life in Christ.
Back then you were more like a feel-good motivational speaker—someone better to watch than soap operas while rearing little kids who were getting on my every last nerve and plowing through piles of laundry and housework—all the while dreaming of greater things. Girl, did I envy you. You were doing what I wanted to do “when I grew up”—make a living encouraging women how to overcome and triumph.
You boasted of having the Black preacher TD Jakes as your mentor who basically introduced you to the Black Christian audience (very strategic move, by the way), and you gladly accepted the mantle of being called the “White Oprah Winfrey” of the evangelical world. It was rumored that some people were calling you “The Black People Whisperer.” At one time, it was reported that you were the counselor to Michael Jackson, Tyra Banks, MLB player Darryl Strawberry, and NFL star Deion Sanders. But in spite of all the glittery orbit you ascended to as a spiritual life coach, you seemed to have a heart for the poor and disenfranchised that kept you grounded…
…and then came your unholy alliance with “he who shall not be named.”
Actually, I cut you loose long before the Orange One became your North Star. Early on, I began to notice the pressurized greed campaign with which you assailed your naïve audiences (most of them Black folks) as you gathered more and more toys: Gulfstream private jets, designer clothes, an 8,000 square foot beachfront house as a second home, a Trump Tower condo for $3.5M, and more. The more toys you acquired the more you demanded your listeners send you their “first fruits” seed money (religious tithe before paying rent or their electric bill) if they wanted God to bless and/or heal them, like he had blessed you. (I personally never sent you one stray penny because I’d seen your kind before. I remember the days of “Rev. Ike” who fleeced my mentally ill mother of what little money she had in exchange for prayer cloths that promised to make her rich and mentally whole. When she died, we discovered scads of prayer cloths, but she was still dirt poor, living in roach-infested squalor, and definitely crazy while Rev. Ike passed away at a ripe old age leaving an estate worth several million dollars.)
I noticed that you seemed to turn into a spiritual grifter before my very eyes, but little did I know that someday you would join hands with the greatest grifter of our time and call him “holy!”
All sorts of statements and actions by you woke me up to your grifter character devouring your motivational ministry character:
- Your minstrelsy preaching whenever you spoke to Black audiences as you performed your Pentecostal preacher street-strut: “SMACK SOMEBODY UPSIDE THEIR WEAVE AND SAY GET IN THE FLOW.” (REALLY, Paula?!)
- Your duplicitous support of Black lives: when George Floyd was murdered you were very supportive of BLM (Black Lives Matter); as soon as you hitched your wagon to #47’s train, you declared that “BLM was the antichrist.”
- Your threatening lies in God’s name against Christians while trying to garner support for Trump: “Christians will stand accountable before God if they vote against Trump.”
- Your manipulation of your listeners about your personal holiness and power that “anointed” you to proclaim the Unholy One as the Chosen One:
“Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. When I go into the drycleaner, that dry-cleaning place becomes holy. I had every right and authority to declare the White House as Holy ground, because I was standing there, and where I stand is holy!”
Ei-yi-yi-yi-yi, Paula! Have you no shame?!
Anyway, Paula, as a sister-in-the-Lord, I’m writing to warn you—one poor messed up child saved by God’s grace to another—in my best Whoopi Goldberg voice: “YOU IN TROUBLE, GIRL!” Didn’t you learn anything when you were hanging around Christian Black folks: “GOD DON’T LIKE UGLY!”
Remember Micah 6:8: “O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
You had one job from God as a self-proclaimed leader in the church: do what is right, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God, but you squandered it in your pursuit of fame, greed, and idolatry—so much so, that you’ve called “good bad, bad good, lies truth, unholy holy, and unrighteousness righteous.”
So, while I wait for God to show up and “smack YOU upside your weave,” I am praying Psalm 69:22-25 against your official assignment, and against “he who shall not be named” and his minions:
“May the table set before them become a snare;
may it become retribution and a trap.
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent forever.
Pour out your wrath on them;
let your fierce anger overtake them.
May their place be deserted;
let there be no one to dwell in their tents.”
DEAR READER: While we’re waiting on Paula to repent and potentially lead Herr Unholy One to repent (hey, with God, anything can happen and I pray for them both EVERYDAY that genuine public repentance will be their raison d’etre), I have supplied some very informative reading and a video about Paula White at the end of this post so that you can decide for yourself whether the things I’ve written about her be true. These are just the tip of the iceberg. If you go to Google and/or YouTube and type in “Paula White Scandals,” you’ll be occupied until Jesus comes back.
Also, if you’d like a funny, insightful, dystopian romp in the form of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, where the god of that world does thwart the elevation of an “Unholy One” and the dethroning of the Head of Oz’s Religious Faith Office, please check out my latest book House of Oz Undone:
SUGGESTED READING ABOUT PAULA WHITE (I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE YOUTUBE VIDEO—IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnWko3-nFbE
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how the hell did i end up here? 