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Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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Professor, Dean, womanist theologian, Black Church historian, New Yorker, Alpha Kappa Alpha, writer. Moving to: bsky.app/profile/ynpier…
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Feb 4, 2025
    It’s officially #PublicationDay. Welcoming “The Wounds are the Witness” to the world. Available wherever books are sold; audiobook narrated by me. I write about Black faith and the relationship between memory, healing, and justice. #BHM amazon.com/dp/1506485332/…
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Nov 9, 2020
    If only we hated poverty instead of hating poor people.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Jul 13, 2022
    "They edited out the sound of children screaming." One short sentence that breaks your heart. #Uvalde
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Oct 4, 2020
    I will not perform false politeness in the presence of evil.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Dec 13, 2020
    White supremacists are tearing down and burning Black Lives Matter signs from churches. These are acts of both racial terror and religious violence. +
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Nov 19, 2021
    Too often calls for "peace" really mean "be quiet" and accept whatever injustice is being perpetuated.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Oct 28, 2017
    He said "can’t have the inmates running the prison" when he really wanted to say "can't have slaves running the plantation." #TakeAKnee
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Dec 13, 2020
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    White Christians: your silence and complicity, for 400 years, in the face of racial terror and religious violence against African Americans is theological malpractice.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Dec 13, 2020
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    Burning Black Lives Matter signs ripped from churches is an explicit threat to the sanctity of the Black church and to Black lives and freedom, even if the church itself is not historically Black.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Dec 13, 2020
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    You're a hypocrite and the truth ain't in you if you claim to love a God you haven't seen, while either condoning or being silent about acts of terror and violence against your actual neighbor.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Dec 13, 2020
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    Perhaps if you read some Liberation or Womanist theology, or some Critical Race Theory, you’d understand the relationship between silence, racial terror, and white supremacist theology.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Jan 23, 2019
    For black boys navigating this cruel world without PR firms, marketing consultants, and network news interviews, we pray.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    Dec 13, 2020
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    But since that isn’t likely, here’s some scripture for you: woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs…inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
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    Yolanda Pierce, PhD
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    May 12, 2021
    One of my mistakes was believing I would be supported, helped, promoted, and rewarded to the same degree as my white colleagues. I thought my credentials, degrees, excellence, and work ethic would be as valuable than their connections. I was wrong.