Father's Day Message

 

This will not be a typical Father's Day message.  It will not be politically correct.  It will no doubt offend some people. However, this is from my perspective and not that of the Church. 

I was born on July 15th, 1948, to Moody and Garnet Truitt.  Both my parent were white, which makes me white.  I was not given a choice as to what race I would be born.  I was not given a choice of who my parents would be and their race.  I had no choice in the matter of my birth.  My gender was determined by my parents' genetics, not by the doctor or the hospital I was born in.  You see, there was nothing I could do to change the events of my birth.  I am a white male by birth.  Over the years, I have come to accept who I am and that this is the way God wanted me to be.  My parents treated everyone with respect regardless of their skin color and taught their children to do the same. 

The first Church I pastored was Robert's Chapel.  The oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana.  I graduated with a BA from Martin University, an African American University.  I was often the only white person in my class.  I served on the M.G. Raby Distinguished Service Award Committee for several years as the only white male on the committee.  This award recognized individuals whose efforts, deeds, and examples support equal justice, opportunities for all and celebrate diversity within the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township.

Laverna and I spent almost two years living among the Shoshone Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Wyo.  I know what it is to be a minority.  I know what it is to be hated because I am white.  What I don't understand is how my being white makes me a racist?  I thought that it was vital that we judged people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.  Today, I am judged by my skin color, and because it is white, I am born a racist.  What bothers me about this is some are calling for the death of every white person in America to bring an end to racism.

What does this have to do with father's day?  When my parents decided to have children, they didn't base that decision on making a bunch of white racists.  Today, parents need to consider the attitude of the WOKE community and the safety of their children.  The world has changed dramatically for the white race and especially the white male.  Parents now must decide if they want their children hating themselves because they are white?  It concerns me that it is white teachers and school officials pushing this agenda of hate.  What has happened to our world?

I watched a Senate hearing this week where an Admiral in the Navy required every sailor to read a book that calls every white person a racist and the Navy a racist organization.  What has happened to our world?

For at least four decades, white males have been under continuous assault as bearers of "white privilege" and beneficiaries of sexism. Of course, particular preferences and privileges have been granted to other groups, but that is the least of it.  More importantly, the very basis of the psychological self-worth of white males has been under attack.  White males are frequently instructed by authority figures in education and the media that they are responsible for most of the evils of the modern world, that the achievements of Euro-American civilization are a net loss for humanity, stained by exploitation, racism, unfairness, and every other collective evil the progressive mind can manufacture.

Some white males are relatively unscathed by psychological warfare, but others are more vulnerable. Those who have educational, financial, or employment achievements that have rewarded their efforts may be able to keep going as productive members of society, their self-esteem resting on tangible fruits of their work and social position. But other white males, especially those who work with their hands and have been seeing job opportunities disappear, have been losing the basis for a robust sense of self-worth as their job opportunities disappear.  This has contributed to the high numbers of white male deaths in the United States due to stress and heart disease.

Just as community organizer Saul Alinsky, in his textbook for Marxist street thugs, Rules for Radicals, advised his minions, constant drumbeats have the potential to wear down resolve and win social and cultural wars.  For years now, the object of left-wing pressure has been to undermine the status and reputation of straight white conservative males. If you are a Christian white male, you now are considered a "domestic terrorist."

To eradicate the white guy problem in America, Caucasians with XY chromosomes, who self-identify as the sex they were at birth, are portrayed by the left as misogynist, bigoted, homophobic, violent troublemakers in need of exposure, and chastisement. Unfortunately, this constant message is being sounded all across this country and in our schools.

 We hear daily that conservative white males are genetically flawed, historical figures are being unfairly held to 21st-century cultural and political standards.  Even Confederate General Robert E. Lee tucked away in a grave since 1870, has not escaped retroactive ridicule from the left for his political identification and pale skin color.

This is what is facing American fathers today.  How can children honor their fathers when they are being taught by the MSM, schoolteachers, government officials, and even pastors that their white father is evil.

 Conservative activist Candace Owens told host Maria Bartiromo children should not be allowed to attend schools that teach them how "not to be racist."

After Bartiromo accused schools of "assuming every kid is a racist," Owens, who said she thinks it's time to "pull our kids out of school," said core subjects like math and science are being replaced by lessons that teach kids "how to hate white people."

Owens continued, "It's indoctrination that's happening. They're trying to fuel race issues in this county, they're trying to teach this Marxist ideology, and the bad thing is they're replacing hard academics. These kids are not learning math and science, they're not learning mathematics, they're learning how to hate white people and how to hate their country, and this is problematic for the future."

The expanding use of Critical Race Theory in K-12 classrooms has prompted some parents to file lawsuits against school districts or pull their children out of the schools entirely.

Owens referred to former FOX News host Megyn Kelly's decision to pull her sons out of their "woke," "far-left" New York City school.

Kelly announced in November 2020 that she was leaving the city and pulling her sons from the Collegiate School in Manhattan after a letter circulated among faculty after George Floyd died saying, "White school districts across the country [are] full of future killer cops."

The letter read, "A killer cop is sitting in every school where white children learn," Webber wrote in June. "They gleefully soak in their whitewashed history that downplays the holocaust of indigenous native peoples and Africans in the Americas. They happily believe their all-white spaces exist as a matter of personal effort and willingly use violence against black bodies to keep those spaces white."

Kelly said the letter was proof the school had "gone off the deep end." On her podcast "The Megyn Kelly Show," she questioned, "Which boy in my kid's school is the future killer cop? Is it my boy? Which boy is it? Because I don't happen to believe that they're in there."

Owens told Bartiromo that schools are "100 percent biased" and that it was time for parents to start suing schools. "They will win if they start suing schools for this sort of stuff because it is blatant discrimination," she said.

Last month, a Black mom filed a suit against her biracial, white-passing son's public charter school after he allegedly received a failing grade in the class "Sociology of Change" for failing to confess his "white dominance."

An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.

Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’t buying it.

They complain the K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they’re made to feel awful about their “whiteness,” and all the “kids of color” in other rooms where they’re taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.

Teaching even one child these divisive messages would verge on psychological abuse. Indoctrinating generations of children with these extreme ideas is not just immoral — it is a program for national suicide. Yet that is exactly what the Biden administration endorsed recently in a rule published in the Federal Register aimed at inflicting a critical race theory-inspired curriculum on American schoolchildren.

The rule explicitly cites the New York Times’ discredited “1619 Project” as a motivation. The Times has described the goal of its endeavor as the “re-education” of the American people, and the project even includes a lesson plan that encourages students to practice “erasing” parts of the Declaration of Independence. The Biden rule also directly cites a left-wing activist and leading proponent of critical race theory whose textbook states, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

This is what the Biden administration wants to teach America’s children.

The Department of Education rule stems from an executive order Biden signed on his first day in office. Biden’s order abolished the Trump President’s Advisory 1776 Commission created to honor America’s founding principles, and reversed an executive action to stop depraved theories from being imposed upon federal employees in workforce training sessions.

Thankfully, most Americans oppose this insanity. The left has only gotten away with it until this point because not enough parents have been paying attention and speaking up. But that is quickly changing. From Loudoun County, Va., to Cupertino, Calif., parents are beginning to make their voices heard against the left-wing cultural revolution.

I know we are a white church, but we should not be ashamed of how God has made us.  Nor should we subject our children to an ideology that teaches them to hate who they are and how they are made.  Jesus said we are to love our neighbor as ourselves.  If I cannot love who God has made me be, how can I love my neighbor?

One last thing, how is Sugar Plain going to address the issue of Critical Race Theory?  Are we going to allow our children to be shamed for being who God made them?  Are we going to ignore this issue like we do so many other social problems?  Maybe it is time that we provide our children a haven for learning?  Sugar Plain was a schoolhouse before it was a church. For 66 years, Sugar Plain Friends Church supported Sugar Plain Academy to give their children a Biblical Worldview.  Maybe it is time to get back to our roots.  Pray for our fathers.