Angela Rye, also known as the self-proclaimed title Truth Bringer, delivered the truth in a response video with facts that shot down a white Texas pastor’s false claims of enslaved people being freed by nice plantation owners because they failed to go to Washington, D.C., and protest slavery.
Rye, a popular social media influencer who is known for being a social justice advocate, is host of the podcast “On 1 with Angela Rye” on YouTube and Apple podcasts.
She recently made a response video to dispute the false claims given by pastor Mike Keller. Keller made the comments while speaking at Fairpark Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
Rye captioned the video, “Well, well, well: Pastor Slavery brings the HEAT! It’s the heat all right. Straight from satan’s back pocket. The church mothers used to say your sin will find you out…with this kind of storytelling, this man needs to make it straight to the altar for a special laying hands prayer.”
Rye started by addressing the opening line of the short clip by Keller that claimed enslaved people did not protest against slavery.
“First of all, let’s go back to what he said initially: ‘Did they protest in D.C?’. Perhaps not, but there were folks involved in uprisings and in revolts. There were people who were coming together every year until emancipation to come up with a political agenda that would ensure what? Abolition — probably a word that Pastor Slavery is not too familiar with,” said Rye in her response video.
Next, she addressed the pastor’s claims that suggested white slaveholders built churches for enslaved people and taught them how to read so they could read the Bible.
“So, I want to be clear about the fact that if there was a church built for Black folks to convene and congregate, it was not due to the good credit of the good people at the United Confederacy Congregation, OK, or Pastor Slavery. It was because of our blood, sweat, tears, and prayers,”…
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