https://twitter.com/WHUTUPDOE/status/1035650995638784000Correction: Rev Jasper Williams, Jr., Black Mothers been raising Black boys for years!! We're Still are raising proud, accomplished and aware Black man!! I should have known! Rest of this eulogy has been a conservative Black confusion rant!
— Barbara Arnwine, Esq. (@barbs73) August 31, 2018
And just like that… Rev. Jasper Williams has reminded Black Xers and Millennials as to why we don't regularly attend church just in the last 8 min.
— Bärí A. Williams, Esq. (@BariAWilliams) August 31, 2018
Thanks!
https://twitter.com/ChanellDeNea/status/1035789525077958656Reverend Jasper Williams plantation style speech at #ArethaFranklinFuneral is a prime example why there is a total disconnect between young Black people and the older Black church crowd. All that cowardly "you's gots to do better" talk ain't fooling these kids
— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) August 31, 2018
But the good reverend seemed unfazed by the backlash, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he expected it “I know it’s controversial,” he said. “When you’re criticized as much as I’ve been, you don’t let it get to you. I know where my heart and head are, and I’m willing to explain and to talk about it.” His eulogy was not the only controversy of the day. Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, the pastor of Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, who officiated the funeral service, has apologized after receiving a ton of backlash for touching featured performer, Ariana Grande🗣 Get Rev. Jasper Williams Jr.’s homophonic, misogyny-preaching, black lives don’t matter, respectability politics loving ass off this stage #ArethaHomegoing pic.twitter.com/KiN9Lnehre
— My Ya Ya Wig 👱🏾♀️ (@StormXMunroe) August 31, 2018