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Black Conservative Pastor Slams BLM While White-Washing History at Moms For Liberty Summit [1]

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Date: 2023-08-03

There were many workshops at the recent Moms for Liberty Summit in Philadelphia. Religion Dispatches’ Annika Brockschmidt reported on various “breakout sessions” that “were held by the Leadership Institute, right wing activists, and ultra-conservative foundations, teaching attendees to ‘win in the minority,’ take over local school boards, and implement a right wing agenda once elected. Also on the agenda were media training and legal advice; one workshop by the Southeastern Legal Foundation could have been titled ‘how to sue your school district.’”

Mother Jones’ Kiera Butler reported on a workshop she attended that was called “More Than Victims,” which promised to “counter the divisive and manipulative distortions that have attempted to sever Black Americans’ attachment to their own nation.”

Attended by only 15 or 20 people -- because it shared a time slot with a spicier-sounding session called “Protecting Kids from Gender Ideology” -- “More Than Victims” was led by Pastor JC Hall, the husband of popular right-wing speaker KrisAnne Hall (see below for more on her). The workshop “focused on her area of expertise, the biblical underpinnings of the US Constitution,” Butler noted (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/moms-for-liberty-conference/).

Here are excerpts from her report:

“On the surface, Hall offered a somewhat sleepy PowerPoint presentation about the pantheon of Great Black Americans from the 18thand 19thcenturies. Among the dozen or so individuals he highlighted were Revolutionary War martyr Crispus Attucks, real estate entrepreneur Elleanor Eldridge, and the first Black female school principal, Fanny Jackson Coppin. Hall argued that the admirable accomplishments of these people had been erased by a leftist narrative that is excessively preoccupied with the evils of slavery at the expense of celebrating Black excellence before emancipation. Hall explained that he had become interested in African American history in part because he himself had a Black great-grandfather whose family, he noted, had climbed out of poverty by dint of hard work rather than relying on government assistance. ‘Through hard work and perseverance and just learning from the plantation, [they] decided not to be victims,’ he explained. ‘They got their own reparations the American way.’ “In contrast, he disparaged the current advocacy around reparations for slavery. He described Black Lives Matter as ‘a bunch of transgendered Neo-Marxist revolutionaries.’ The Juneteenth holiday? A kind of false flag. ‘If we have Juneteenth,’ he said, ‘and that’s the celebration of our freedom, then the obvious implication is no Black person before that did anything.’ Clocking in at almost an hour, Hall’s presentation ran long, and there was no time for a question-and-answer session. But I lingered at the front of the room as appreciative audience members lined up to thank him. One man remarked that Black history was often misrepresented. Take the famous photo of the 1963 civil rights protest in Birmingham,*Alabama, that shows an officer grabbing the lapel of a Black protester as his dog attacks the man. But that hadn’t been what was going on at all, the audience member said. ‘The officer was restrainingthe dog, not siccing the dog.’ (In an emailed response to questions from Mother Jones, Hall emphasized that the intent of his presentation was to counter the ‘agenda of division that Black patriots and heroes prior to 1863 have been practically erased from American consciousness.’ He added, ‘Black history is American history and these heroes deserve honor.’)

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “KrisAnne Hall is an antigovernment lawyer and activist in Florida who describes herself as a ‘constitutional attorney.’ Hall runs a business called Constitutional Education and Consulting and travels the country preaching that U.S. citizens do not need to comply with the government. She also heads a non-profit that assists people who believe the government has transgressed on their rights. Claiming her ideas are embedded in the Constitution, Hall preaches to militias, antigovernment groups, church groups, lawmakers and law enforcement (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/krisanne-hall).

SPLC’s Report noted that “Many of Hall’s beliefs are shared by her husband JC Hall, a former Baptist pastor turned evangelist who often works with Hall on her various projects. The couple are registered agents for a church in Lake City, Florida, where Hall’s own business and an evangelistic ministry linked to JC are located. They are also instructors at the River School of Government located inside Revival Ministries in Tampa, Florida. The school’s vision, which is listed on their website, is ‘to raise up people in government, who are armed with a solid foundation in the Constitution, God's Holy Word, and the power of the Holy Spirit – to take America back!’”

According to Media Matters (https://www.mediamatters.org/moms-liberty/moms-liberty-will-feature-krisanne-hall-oath-keepers-militia-member-who-spoke-pro), In late June, the Halls joined the Alex Jones Show to talk about the War in Ukraine. Media Matters also reported that KrisAnne Hall “has appeared as a guest on far-right outlets, including on QAnon programs like BardsFM and RedPill78. She works with the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a far-right and white nationalist-tied organization whose central tenet is that the authority of county sheriffs exceeds that of the state and federal government, and that those officials can nullify federal laws. She has spoken at previous Moms for Liberty events, including its national summit last year.”

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