Woke Pastor Repents of Using the Word ‘Picnic,’ Because It’s……
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A pastor at Sycamore Creek Church in Lansing, MI, Pastor Tom Arnold says that his church has repented of using the word picnic because… it’s racist. Arnold repeats debunked claims that sound like either his black friends were messing with him and told him that, or it came from 4Chan trolls, explaining that they don’t use such triggered and racist language anymore, offering a novel explanation of what makes the term so terrible and loaded.
We’re talking about repentance and there’s some ways that we can repent as a church, ways we can repent as individuals. And one of the ways we’ve been doing this here lately as a church is with some of the language that we use.
As we’ve involved more and more black people in our worship services in South Landing, we’ve come to learn that the word ‘picnic’ has a really negative history, negative association in the black community. And that’s because during times of lynchings, many white people would bring a picnic with them and sit to watch this, while eating a meal outside. I mean this is just absolutely, I mean it’s horrendous…So the origin of the word picnic is from a 17th-century French word ‘pique-nique‘. But in the black community, it’s taken on the association of “pick an ‘N-word’ and go lynch them.”
And so we’ve started using a different word. We’ve repented. We’ve turned around from using the word ‘picnic’ and started using other words for talking about having an outdoor meal together.
h/t Woke Preacher TV