The Gospel of Self-Hate: Southern Roots and Urban Decay

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In this episode of Movement, Rhythm, and Conversations with Tafari, I take a hard look at the connection between Southern religion, generational trauma, and the self-hatred plaguing Black communities across America.

Why do we see so much violence, pain, and despair in the very neighborhoods that are saturated with churches?
Why are Black men taught to fear themselves while worshiping a God that looks nothing like them?
And what did we really carry with us when we left the plantations of the South and moved to the so-called promised land of the North and West?

From the broken streets of Oakland to the stained pews of Southern Baptist churches, we expose how deep-rooted indoctrination and historical oppression created a gospel of self-hate—and how we can begin the process of unlearning it.

Get ready for truth without filters—clarity without compromise.
This is the conversation religion doesn’t want you to have.

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