Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.

Greetings and God bless welcome to another episode of Past the Mike

Dynamic Voices for a diverse church power by the Reforms African American

Network I'm your host Tyler Burns you can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23

follow at your own risk and joining me as always is the president of the

reformed African American network. Jamar Tisbee Jamere how you doing brother?

Man, this is a bittersweet occasion.

The sweet part is we are back on the mic.

At the same time, it's bitter because the particular topic that we're talking about today, you know, even though we took a break from recording the world keeps spinning crazy stuff keeps happening. So yeah, it's a mix of both things.

Yeah, man, I'm definitely exhausted I think not just from a physical standpoint but mentally and emotionally

The taxing weight of sin and evil that exists particularly within the American social

context has worn me down man I'm not going to lie to you I'm a little raw

emotionally and so good luck with whoever

listens to this podcast. Hopefully we won't get too, we don't get too much backlash but man I just want us to be honest about just what's going on and

particularly the white supremacy and white nationalism the alt-right all these things that

are really taking root in our society and we see the manifestation of them in Charlottesville.

So obviously we gotta talk about Charlottesville, man.

Yeah, just to recap for folks in Charlottesville,

there was a series of rallies by white supremacist.

And I'm talking in a whole nine yards.

They were marching at night.

They had torches, tiki torches. Right, tiki torches and polos, man, like come on.

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