When the seminary tweeted that it would be reaching out to the individuals Lecrae referenced, the rapper responded simply: “I’m sure in your endeavor to grow you’ll reach out to these leaders respectively.”
Source/Credit: The Huffington Post
By Antonia Blumberg | April 26, 2017
The seminary’s president called it “a moment of bad judgment.”
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is apologizing for a racist photo that several faculty members shared on Twitter on Tuesday.
Five men, all of them senior faculty members at the Southern Baptist seminary in Texas, staged a photo in which they posed as rappers wearing hoodies, sideways hats and chain necklaces. One of them appears to be holding a gun. The phrase “Notorious S.O.P.,” for the School of Preaching, is featured in graffiti-style lettering across the top of the photo.
Black activist Shaun King shared the photo, which has since been deleted by the faculty members who initially tweeted it:
David L. Allen, dean of the School of Preaching, explained in a tweet that the photo was staged as part of a going-away party for another professor.
Vern Charette, a former professor of preaching at Southwestern who recently accepted a new post, is reportedly known to rap on occasion during sermons.
Allen later apologized for sharing the photo, saying his “stance on race is clear.”
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