Bishop Talbert Swan apparently had time on Saturday. And has continued to have time in the days since.
Following the Kavanaugh hearings, some white feminists began to call for prolong protests against rape culture and those that facilitate it. A few even called for #TakingAKnee:
I am calling on either Beyonce, Ariana Grande or Christine Aguilera to sing the National Anthem on bended knee #JustDoIt
— Molly Ringwald (@MollyRingwald) October 5, 2018
In a series of threaded tweets, the COGIC (Nova Scotia Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction) bishop ranted about these women "hijacking a movement [they] took no risks for." Furthermore, he criticized them for erasing black women in their movement.
White women kneeling during the anthem to protest “rape culture” is highjacking a movement you took no risks for. You didn’t kneel in solidarity to protest the murder of Black people, don’t co opt & make it about your victimization. That’s white supremacy in the name of feminism.
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) October 6, 2018
I can’t help but ask where liberal white women were when we were seeking justice for…#SandraBland#CharleenaLyles#ShukriAli#DeborahDanner#RekiaBoyd#MyaHall#MiriamCarey#AiyanaJones
…and so many other Black women. You don’t even know their names.#SayHerName
pic.twitter.com/YW2sUby2JO— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) October 6, 2018
One more thing, when are y’all going to deal with your Barbecue Becky’s & Permit Patty’s randomly calling cops on Black people for no reason?
White women participate in our oppression, yet try to appropriate the language & movements associated with it.https://t.co/rDzdwyw1TN
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) October 7, 2018
Swan also hopped on radio to discuss Bette Midler's foot-in-the-month comments comparing women's struggles to the n-word.
On the radio talking: #BetteMidler, #WhiteFeminism, #MeToo, #TakeAKnee
https://t.co/iG1duy7WWt— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) October 8, 2018
This isn't the first time Swan has been highly outspoken on Twitter. As the Atlanta Black Star reports, Swan was banned from Twitter last year after someone asked him whether he was following Candace Owens and he replied with a tweet saying he was a "no coon diet."
No one knows the frustration Swan, a man, touched upon in his most recent tweet storm more intimately than black women, who often must tussle between placing gender or race as a priority in an unrealistic war of identity.
Given the this, Swan has come under fire for his comments, particularly for a Tuesday tweet supporting an op-ed from D. Marlon A Smith. In his piece, Smith lectured black women about why they ought not join what he called, "a white feminist agenda."
Both men were accused of not listening to black women on social media, and were accused of hypocrisy, as many black women (including, but not limited to, notable women), have expressed concern over modern feminism for a while now. "Solidarity is for white women," anyone?
“It’s time for Black women to stop caping a white feminist agenda.”
“I struggle to understand…why Black women herald white feminist agendas to support white women who diminish coalitions among Black men & women.”
– D. Marlon A. Smith
SAY A WORD SIR!https://t.co/1X4qNX7QX8
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) October 9, 2018
Black men attempting to caution Black women about the cruel racism of White women is one of the top 5 most ridiculous things I’ve ever read. We don’t typically have sexual attraction as a buffer between us and that hatred, we know how to identify it from miles away.
— Jamilah Lemieux???? (@JamilahLemieux) October 9, 2018
Bishop Talbert Swan is a vile piece of shit that only exists to remind the backslid why they left the church. Don't be fooled by one correct point in a mountain of shit.
— Mári ???????? (I'm Black. This isn't hard.) (@_ItsMarisWorld_) October 6, 2018
Jamilah is rightfully checking the unmitigated gall of the author to ignore and misrepresent the collective of Black women as caping for white feminists. Even if one limits their view to Twitter, you'd have to be blind to not be aware of #Solidarityisforwhitewomen…
— ????????????Electric Bo Peep???????????? (@eBoPeep) October 9, 2018
…and the fact that most notable Black women on Twitter either have been calling out white feminists for years and other Black women are decidedly race-first. There is a vocal minority who seek allyship with WW, and even they will express disappointment in lack of solidarity.
— ????????????Electric Bo Peep???????????? (@eBoPeep) October 9, 2018
Now, check these out:
Georgia Senator Says He'd Be Totally Fine If Trump Said 'N****r'
Taylor Swift just exemplified what's wrong with white feminism
#SayHerName: What you need to know about #SandraBland and #KindraChapman
