Last week more than 10,000 people gathered to hear a panel of black leaders discuss the state of the church and politics at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2022.
The panel, led by the Executive Director of Operations for G3 Ministries, Virgil Walker, began with Dr. Raleigh Washington calling for Americans to reawaken our national motto: “in God we trust.”
“In 1956, the 84th Congress of the United States passed a joint resolution declaring that ‘in God we trust’ is the national motto of the United States of America. It passed both the House and Senate unanimously without debate… we have put that motto to sleep and it's time to wake that motto up,” Dr. Washington said.
Dr. Washington also said that if we put our trust in God, we will “love our neighbor as ourself… not cancel or erase people… not mutilate individuals, especially our young ladies, but we will honor God’s creation and bless it from womb to tomb.”
The next panelist was Kevin McGary, founder of Every Black Life Matters, a “righteous and faithful alternative to Black Lives Matter.”
“We continue to see pastors encouraging parishioners to fall in with Marxism, CRT, DEI, ESG and we’re standing against it,” McGary said. His organization provides corporations with “racial sensitivity training” that defies the typical woke narrative.
“Blacks have become the cheap prostitutes of the Democratic Party. They screw us, and barely pay us, and we keep coming back for more.” — Pastor John Amanchukwu
The panel’s most controversial moment came when Pastor John Amanchukwu said, “Blacks have become the cheap prostitutes of the Democratic Party. They screw us, and barely pay us, and we keep coming back for more.”
“Blacks must know this: we don’t have to vote for the Democratic Party. We’re not born Democrats,” he continued.
This comes on the heels of various radical Democratic politicians like Senator Ralph Warnock and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams using predominantly black churches to campaign for office.
Senator Ralph Warnock was locked in a tight race with Republican Herschel Walker before winning a contentious December runoff.
Pastor Amanchukwu focused much of his message on the need for repentance: “Our focus today should not be on winning the next election, we need to bring revival to America… I'm not trying to turn America red or blue, I just want to turn it back to God.”
Amanchukwu went viral last month for showing up at his local school board’s meeting to oppose the creation of a new “diversity office.”
“The Church of Jesus Christ is silent primarily because of fear. Pastors do not want to be called racist. The issue is not about politics, it's about sin.” — Dr. Raleigh Washington
Dr. Raleigh Washington chimed in again to issue a call to pastors: “The Church of Jesus Christ is silent primarily because of fear. Pastors do not want to be called racist. Pastors look at sin in the White House or in Congress or anywhere else and say ‘we don’t want to be political.’ The issue is not about politics, it's about sin.”
“We need to hear pastors stand up and say, ‘In God we trust, the Bible is true’... preachers, stop drinking the kool-aid and preach the Word of God,” Washington said.
Virgil Walker asked each panelist to give the crowd one last nugget of truth:
“Cowardice is not a fruit of the spirit,” said Pastor John Amanchukwu.
“If we’re people of faith, the Bible is sufficient and what Jesus did at the cross is sufficient,” remarked Kevin McGary.
Dr. Raleigh Washington gave the final word: “This group, and especially millennials, you can change the world. Let’s reawaken our motto, ‘In God we trust’ and with that we can change the world.”
