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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
"We Don't Need A Walker. We Need A Runner": Pastor Jamal Bryant's Speech About Georgia's Midterm Senate Race (video, information, & transcript)
Jeremy Brown, Nov 1, 2022
Pastor Jamal Bryant just OBLITERATED Herschel Walker in an impassioned message.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post documents the speech that Atlanta, Georgia's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Jamal Bryant gave on Sunday Oct. 30, 2022 about midterm election race between Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.This post includes a transcript of that sermon.
This post also includes information about Pastor Jamal Bryant and background about the 2022 Georgia's United States Senate race between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Senate candidate Hershel Walker.
The content of this post is presented of socio-cultural and political purposes.
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Thanks to Pastor Jamal Bryant for his social activism and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Update: Nov. 3, 2022
Pastor Bryant's Oct. 30, 2022 "We Don't Need A Walker" speech is a part of a longer church service. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-3PQNh8T4 Homecoming Sunday: I Don't Need A Walker, published by Dr. Jamal Bryant, Oct. 30, 2022.2 Samuel 9:3.
New Birth Cathedral.
Dr. Jamal Bryant, Senior Pastor.
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The length of that YouTube video is 1:46:32. The portion about Hershal Walker that has gone viral begins at about 47 minutes in that video.
****PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to documenting what Pastor Bryant said in this sermon, I'm showcasing this video and its transcript, to document this sermon as an example of traditional Black (African American) Baptist preaching. Notice the way that Pastor Bryant structures his sermon, and his use of African American Vernacular English, his use of repetition and his cadence. Also, notice the way he involves the members of the congregation ("Y’all ain’t ready for me today.") and the different ways members of the congregation are free to physically respond to his words. For example, unlike some other YouTube videos of that sermon, the one that is showcased in this pancocojams post shows several women in the congregation strolling in front of the minister's rostrum as he preaches. One of the women waves a cheerleading pom pom. Although some other African American churches frown upon those expressions of support, it appears that they are quite acceptable during church services in Pastor Byrant's Missionary Baptist Church.
Click https://www.gotquestions.org/Missionary-Baptist-Church.htmlfor some information about (African American) Missionary Baptist churches. Here's an excerpt from that page: "Generally speaking, Missionary Baptist churches place an emphasis on Christian evangelism, promoting missions efforts at home and abroad; encourage Christian education; seek social justice and community involvement; and publish and distribute Sunday school material and other Christian literature. Missionary Baptists embrace their history and maintain a strong connection to the needs in their surrounding communities."...****
INFORMATION ABOUT PASTOR JAMAL BRYANT Fromhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Harrison_Bryant"Jamal Harrison Bryant (born May 21, 1971) is an American
minister and author. He is the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist
Church.[1] He is a graduate of Morehouse College and of Duke University.[2] He
received his doctorate of ministry degree from the Graduate Theological
Foundation.
In December 2018, Bryant transitioned from Empowerment
Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland to Atlanta,
Georgia to pastor New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in DeKalb County.[2]
Early life and education
Jamal Harrison Bryant was born on May 21, 1971, in Boston,
Massachusetts to John Richard and Cecelia Bryant (née Williams). He has a
younger sister. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland where, as a child, he
attended his father's church Bethel A.M.E. Church. He preached his first sermon
when he was 18 years old at Bethel titled "No Pain, No Gain."[3]
Bryant attended Morehouse College where he earned an
undergraduate degree in political science and international studies. He
obtained a master's of divinity degree from Duke University in Durham, North
Carolina. He received a doctorate of ministry degree from the Graduate
Theological Foundation. Bryant is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity....
“Y’all ain’t ready for me today,” Jamal Bryant warned the congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch about 17 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta
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For the first time in the Peach State, two Black candidates – Walker and Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock – are vying for the same Senate seat.
"They thought we were so slow, that we were so stupid, that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical broken Black man as opposed to somebody who is educated and erudite and focused," Bryant said from the pulpit as congregants cheered, clapped and nodded heads in the church's pews.
Warnock won the 2020 special election to fill the remaining two years of the Senate seat. Now both candidates are running for a full six-year term."... -snip- Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Warnockfor information about Senator Raphael Warnock.
**** TRANSCRIPT OF PASTOR BRYANT'S WE DON'T NEED A WALKER. WE NEED A RUNNER" SERMON (Oct. 30, 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5sch0Tp08"Ladies and gentlemen, when the Republican party of Georgia moved Herschel Walker from Texas to Georgia so that he could run for Senate, it’s because change was taken too fast in the post-Antebellum South. The state had been flipped blue and there are some principalities were not prepared for a Black man and a Jewish man to go to the Senate at the exact same time. So they figured that they would delude us by picking somebody who they thought would in fact represent us better with a football than with a degree in philosophy.
They thought we were so slow, that we were so stupid, that we would elect the lowest caricature of a stereotypical broken Black man as opposed to somebody who is educated and erudite and focused. “Y’all ain’t ready for me today.
Since Hershel Walker was 16 years old white men been telling him what to do, telling him what school to go to, where to live, where to eat, where to buy a house, where to run, where to sit down, where to sleep, where to pay for abortions, where to buy a gun, and that you they not gonna tell him how to vote in 2022?
We don't need a walker. We need a runner.
We need somebody who gonna run and tell the truth about January 6th.
We need somebody who gonna run and push for the cancellation of student loan debts.
We need somebody who gonna run and make the former president respond to a subpoena.
We don't need a walker. We need somebody who will be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding knowing that your labor is not in vain.
Georgia, I need you to know , the slave negroes y’all are used to don’t live here no more. We can think for ourselves, function for ourselves, and vote for ourselves!” Why? 'Cause we don't need a walker!" **** Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
I don't know if Pastor Jamal Bryant titled his sermon "We don't need a walker. We need a runner." However, that title has been used in a number of news articles about that sermon and its play on words fits that sermon very well.
The capitalizations of the referent "Black" and the lower case letters for the referents "white" and "negroes" in this transcript were as they were found in the captions for Pastor Jamal Bryant's Oct. 30, 2022 sermon.
Black Americans' use of the long retired referent "negroes" [purposely spelled with a lower case "n"] has negative "Uncle tom" connotations which Pastor Bryant emphasized when he said "Georgia, I need you to know , the slave negroes y’all are used to don’t live here no more. We can think for ourselves, function for ourselves, and vote for ourselves!” Why? 'Cause we don't need a walker!"
Here's my take on Pastor Bryant's sentence "Y'all ain't ready for me today": I believe this is clever form of self-boasting/patting themselves on the back that Black preachers and other Black speakers do. Instead of being a mild putdown of their audiences not being prepared for what is about to be said, those words signal to the audience that they should get ready for what is about to be said because it's gonna be real good".
Pastor Jamal Bryant's "We Don't Need A Walker. We Need A Runner" speech/sermon has gone viral. There STILL articles and YouTube videos of and comments about that Oct. 20, 2022 speech/sermon being published on Nov. 3, 2022.
Here's a comment from the discussion thread for one of those YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rQJMC5dZqw Pastor Jamal Bryant DEMOLISHES Herschel Walker. White Evangelicals in Disarray, published by The Benjamin Dixon Show, Oct. 31, 2022
J. Parrish, Oct. 21, 2022 "Pastor Bishop Bryant preached that ish, and he's right. Some wyt folk want to hold on to power , control and money.. they even want to Tyrone Davis us, and "turn back the hands of time".... some won't get it, it go over the heads of the younger generation, but we more seasoned folk will get it..🎵🎶💃🏽 LOL LOL LOL thank you for sharing this portion of his sermon.👋🌷❤😎"
For the record, in video clips that show a close up view of Pastor Bryant, you can see that he is wearing a sweater with the Greek letters for his historically Black Greek letter fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. Members of that fraternity are called themselves "Nupes" which explains the comment that I saw on another YouTube discussion thread which read "Preach, Nupe!"
As a point of information, Democratic Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., another historically Black Greek letter fraternity. Members of that fraternity are called "Aphas".
I don't know if Pastor Jamal Bryant titled his sermon "We don't need a walker. We need a runner." However, that title has been used in a number of news articles about that sermon and its play on words fits that sermon very well.
ReplyDeleteThe capitalizations of the referent "Black" and the lower case letters for the referents "white" and "negroes" in this transcript were as they were found in the captions for Pastor Jamal Bryant's Oct. 30, 2022 sermon.
Black Americans' use of the long retired referent "negroes" [purposely spelled with a lower case "n"] has negative "Uncle tom" connotations which Pastor Bryant emphasized when he said "Georgia, I need you to know , the slave negroes y’all are used to don’t live here no more. We can think for ourselves, function for ourselves, and vote for ourselves!” Why? 'Cause we don't need a walker!"
Here's my take on Pastor Bryant's sentence "Y'all ain't ready for me today": I believe this is clever form of self-boasting/patting themselves on the back that Black preachers and other Black speakers do. Instead of being a mild putdown of their audiences not being prepared for what is about to be said, those words signal to the audience that they should get ready for what is about to be said because it's gonna be real good".
DeletePastor Jamal Bryant's "We Don't Need A Walker. We Need A Runner" speech/sermon has gone viral. There STILL articles and YouTube videos of and comments about that Oct. 20, 2022 speech/sermon being published on Nov. 3, 2022.
DeleteHere's a comment from the discussion thread for one of those YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rQJMC5dZqw Pastor Jamal Bryant DEMOLISHES Herschel Walker. White Evangelicals in Disarray, published by The Benjamin Dixon Show, Oct. 31, 2022
J. Parrish, Oct. 21, 2022
"Pastor Bishop Bryant preached that ish, and he's right. Some wyt folk want to hold on to power , control and money.. they even want to Tyrone Davis us, and "turn back the hands of time".... some won't get it, it go over the heads of the younger generation, but we more seasoned folk will get it..🎵🎶💃🏽 LOL LOL LOL thank you for sharing this portion of his sermon.👋🌷❤😎"
For the record, in video clips that show a close up view of Pastor Bryant, you can see that he is wearing a sweater with the Greek letters for his historically Black Greek letter fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. Members of that fraternity are called themselves "Nupes" which explains the comment that I saw on another YouTube discussion thread which read "Preach, Nupe!"
DeleteAs a point of information, Democratic Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., another historically Black Greek letter fraternity. Members of that fraternity are called "Aphas".