It’s heartbreaking and infuriating to watch so many Black preachers and professed Christians champion a racist demagogue like Trump while twisting the Bible to justify it. Slaveholder Christianity did deep damage, and we’re seeing the fruit of it now: the very same arguments once used by white supremacists to keep our ancestors docile and submissive are being recycled from Black pulpits. Scripture was weaponized to tell us to endure injustice quietly, accept suffering as God’s will, and wait for