Comedian Druski took the stage at the BET Awards as a flamboyant preacher obsessed with celebrities’ net worths and extravagant displays of wealth. And while it was a joke, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes it exposed something very real about the current state of the black church.
“The black church is now a running joke to the point that the BET Awards can be based off of it. Druski opened up the BET Awards mocking the black church,” Whitlock says, before playing a few clips from Druski’s performance.
In one clip, Druski yelled that “somebody getting impregnated with the Word of God in here, in the front row right here.”
In another clip, he says, “We’ve got so many stars in the building whose net worths are blessed and who God has ordained to bless me. Put Tyler Perry net worth up there. Oh my God! Glory! $1.4 billion dollars! We pulling net worth tonight. Amen.”
“Somebody better donate, amen? Amen. Amen. Who else in the building? We got Stevie Wonder in the building. Put his net worth up there. $200 million,” he continues, with the screen behind him showing Wonder’s net worth in brail.
“This man is mocking the black church, taking God’s name in vain in front of a national television audience on the biggest night in black culture,” Whitlock says.
“I actually think he’s a force for good. He’s holding up a mirror and saying this is the type of clown show we have become,” he continues.
“Druski is using comedy properly to hold up a mirror and say … our behavior is so foolish that the only thing I can do is mock it,” he adds.
While Shemeka Michelle agrees, she also doesn’t think the comedy is for everyone.
“I don’t have a problem with it when it comes to people like us who actually can say this is so sad, that it’s accurate … but I think where my problem would come in at is that so many people won’t see it. They won’t see that this is accurate and this is sad and that there needs to be a change,” Michelle says.
“They will just take it as ‘OK, this is nothing to take serious, and we can continue to just play with God and the church, and it’s something that should be made a joke of,’” she continues.
“That’s what I’m kind of fearful of, that people just won’t have any reverence for God,” she adds.
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