Recent documents posted to X suggest that woke pastor Charlie Dates received millions in taxpayer money. The progressive pastor is infamous for a series of anti-white racist rants he made at his Chicago church. Together Chicago is an NGO run by Dates which was given nearly 2 million in government grants. Many were shocked that the divisive preacher was funded by the US government.
Dates has made a series of poorly written statements supporting Marxism. “When people like me highlight the present injustices of our day, I’m quickly labeled as a cultural Marxist,” the pastor said. ” I had to look that up. So many people were calling me a Marxist, and the implication is that I somehow wanted to see money used differently than they wanted to see money used.”
He also made inflammatory comments on race. ” I submit to you today that the real problem is not black money; it’s white money and the love of money in the Christian church,” he ranted. “If we all believe in the same Jesus, and we say we believe in His Word the way we do, why are we not going to church together?” Despite this seeming call for unity, the pastor pivoted to woke talking points.
“I’m standing as a chocolate pastor, [in] this chocolate Church on the south side of Chicago telling you we want to see the walls of division come down,” he ranted. “but if we got to be silent when Trayvon Martin is killed, when Mike Brown is murdered if we got to shut up when Laquan McDonald gets shot down, if we cannot talk about George Floyd, if we got to act like that, the disadvantages between us are cultural and are not systemic, then we can’t be together.”
He added, “Silence is too high a price to pay to be unified when our necks are under a police knee.” He went on to blame systematic racism in education.” We cannot be silent while black boys and black girls still go to separate and unequal schools. We cannot be silent when we put our kids in white private schools, and five years later, all the white parents have taken their white children out of the schools when the black kids show up. ”
He also slammed Republicans as racist. “We cannot be silent when 80% of white evangelicals refuse to break their racist bond with the Republican Party. We cannot be silent when racism is not a deal breaker with you,” he said. However, despite these divisive and racist statements, Charlie Dates still received $1,525,318 from the government, according to documents posted by Woke Preacher Clips on X.
Online commentators were enraged by this pastor. “Went to too many academic conferences where “papers” were sated with this blather. It’s Christianity pressed through a Neo-Marxist sieve,” one user reacted. “When something becomes “economically profitable” like race baiting, it becomes “politically viable” like reparations, and then false teachers make it sound ‘theologically justifiable,'” one commenter said. “And these teachers use money and guilt to divide Christ’s church to this day.”
Watch Dates Ranting Here:
“Silence is too high a price to pay to be unified when our necks are under a police knee…We cannot be silent when 80% of white evangelicals refuse to break their racist bond with the Republican party.”
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— Woke Preacher Clips (@WokePreacherTV) February 26, 2021
“What are they on about now? So sick of each & every one of these clowns,” replied one user. “Dates needs a date with reality…how can anyone co-sign this dude — especially any Bible-believing, God-fearing — Christian?!,” one account humorously quipped. Hopwully Dates will be one of many woke ideologues defunded by the Trump administration.
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