Nantucket Church Cancels July 4th Celebration to Understand ‘Our Own Whiteness’
“The historic Nantucket Unitarian Meeting House has hosted a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights in downtown Nantucket each Fourth of July holiday for the past 25 years.”
A church on the liberal island of Nantucket has decided that they don’t want to celebrate Independence Day this year because they want to figure out their whiteness or some ridiculous thing.
It’s a Unitarian Universalist Church, of course. The UU church is notoriously woke.
A cynic might think the church is taking this position only because Donald Trump is president and that it would never sit out America’s 250th anniversary if the celebration were taking place on Barack Obama’s watch.
FOX News reported:
Biden’s posh vacation enclave roiled as church axes July 4 tradition over ‘whiteness’ debate: ‘Spewing lies’
A Nantucket church on the exclusive Massachusetts island long favored by former President Joe Biden canceled its annual Fourth of July reading of America’s founding documents, citing an effort to understand “our own whiteness” and drawing sharp criticism from conservatives.
“Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects … an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness,” wrote Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society in a letter published by the Nantucket Current on Thursday.
The historic Nantucket Unitarian Meeting House has hosted a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights in downtown Nantucket each Fourth of July holiday for the past 25 years.
The decision comes as communities across the country prepare for events tied to America’s upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations, sparking criticism from social media users amid a broader debate over how the nation’s founding documents should be commemorated.
Church leaders said the decision reflects ongoing conversations within the congregation about race, privilege and the historical application of constitutional rights.
“For those of us who are white the experience of the Rights and Privileges conferred by the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the United States have, for centuries, been tragically, often violently, and unequally applied to fellow citizens who are not white,” the letter explained.
Progressives are so insufferable.
Wtf. Erin Splaine, the "Reverend" of the woke Unitarian Universalist Church in Nantucket, just canceled July 4th celebrations because White people are "privileged" and honoring American history "perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process."
She then forbids… pic.twitter.com/uv9SDih7gn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2026
More from the Boston Herald:
“We came to this decision in large measure because of the recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court,” Rev. Erin Splaine and the group’s board of trustees wrote in a letter to the Nantucket Current news outlet on Thursday. ” A celebration without context and the centering of the fullness of our American Story only perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process.”
“Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects the deep concern we are feeling since the Supreme Court decision,” the letter continues, “as well as an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness and how we can be part of changing an inherently unfair system which has been in place for 250 years.”
Somehow, I suspect America will manage to enjoy both Independence Day and its 250th anniversary just fine without them.
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Well, at least there’s nothing racist about this…hold on, that’s not quite right….ok I take that back.
Gee, I don’t recall the good reverend having much to say when she and her neighbors sent all those illegal ‘brown people’ packing, back to the mainland when all they were looking for was a better life for them and their families.
If she’s not a racist, she’s at least a hypocrite.
That was Marthas Vinyard I believe and not Nantucket.
Meh. Same ferry.
If they want to examine their whiteness, I’m sure DeSantis can send them a plane load of nonwhite “interpreters” to help. Otherwise, it’s a lot like fish trying to understand the concept of water, isn’t it?
Yet another crazy=white-chick-splainer progressive.
A little lower rent and no Obama mansion.
BAH!! You got me.😳 But the meaning is the same.
HYPOCRITE.
My we must be beaming with pride noting that distinction without a difference.
I think this particular “reverend” is an attention ho.
Stop hitting yourself
Patriots need to descend on Nantucket and fill the void, assuming there are still patriots in NE.
A few not including the football team
It’s my understanding that really militant Unitarians attack the homes of unbelievers in middle of the night. They burn question marks on the front lawn.
Interabangs easily confused with question marks.
turning wht moderates into nationalists
great job wokies
whts will start teaching their children that they are the victims as proof of these stories
thats why and howwe know the lefty is aching for that civil war
“ongoing conversations” aka
remember when you torch and start to murder whts…
we were on your side
history will show that the wokies will get the violence done to them first….so there is THAT silver lining to look forward to as they start their “peaceful protests”
Nantucket church wants to understand their whiteness
The only way to understand your own whiteness is to have Ibram X Kendi come and explain it to you in. Be sure to bring your purse or wallet..
the “lesbian minister”
wellll its too bad she doesnt take her gang to turkey etc
We don’t need to give this idiot and it’s church members any publicity
Which is what they are desperate for.
the news needs to be known
for better or worse I’d rather know
Unitarians: The road to heaven is wide, and all paths lead to it!
Somebodies are in for a surprise.
I would bet my bottom dollar and take out a large loan to further back that bet that Erin Splain and the “trustees” have never read the Voting Rights Act and or the Supreme Court decision.
They are relying on the media, and other “woke” groups to tell them what happened rather than doing the principled thing of investigating for themselves.
According to the Unitarian Universalist Church website, “The beliefs of individual Unitarian Universalists range widely and are often contextual to the congregation…
In other words, they have no core values central to all member churches.
As Steve Taylor wrote in “Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Number’s Up?”
You say humanist philosophy is what it’s all about
You’re so open-minded that your brain leaked out
Amen to that.
There’s no doubt that they’ve never read the laws, regulations, or decisions that they froth about.
That was certainly the case with Dobbs. The baby killers were more incensed with the Court taking away their precious litmus test for progressive purity than to realize that all the decision did was kick it to the states.
The VRA was actually upheld.
Look, if you ever have the chance to visit Nantucket, by all means go. It’s gorgeous and a great place to get away from it all. It ain’t cheap but that’s understandable when everything has to be shipped in.
You see, this has less to do with Nantucket than it has to do with the Unitarian Universalist “church” and homosexuality (“Look at me! Look at me! I’m a humanist lesbian! Hear me roar!) This same stance is, I am sure, completely embraced by other “parishes” anywhere UUA is found.
Our founders relied on divine providence as a central tenet of our form of government (“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The other in this case would be atheists.)
I may have mentioned this before but I had a relative that got his doctorate from the Harvard Divinity School and was a UU minister.
He was also an atheist.
To me, that’s a case of cognitive dissonance that’ll surely kill you.
Sorry that was supposed to to be an up vote
The UUs loved loved BLM. I use to swear at the huge sign outside one of their churches every time I drove by. Cognitive dissonance at its finest. Black Marxism – good; Western Capitalism – bad. Heterosexuality – bad. Homosexuality – good. Transsexuality – better.
I’ve mentioned here before my erstwhile neighbor who was a UU minister (and former town Selectman) and who was convicted of importing young Asian sex slaves for a personal harem. Good times.
I’ve always found it curious that a group which is so conflicted about the existence of God felt the need to found a CHURCH to support these non-beliefs in a Creator and First Cause..
Why not a reading group or a coffee klatch?
The idea of a church congregation that gathers on Sunday but can’t really commit to or articulate the purpose of sacred communality seems to me to be a demonic device to deflect an individual’s potential search for God into something more like theological cotton candy.
A UU member once told me “We don’t MIND if you believe in God, but it’s not a requirement.”
Near where I used to live there was a newly built modern looking UU ‘church’ with trendy slogans on their message board outside. A half mile down the street and on the way back into town there is a decades old Baptist Church. After about a year their outside message board started reading ” still feeling empty, stop in to worship with US on Sunday mornings”. Quite clever.
does that mean they only get a 50% tax reduction??
L. Ron Hubbard explained why the church part is necessary.
To get rich
By avoiding taxation AND regulation.
Ima reach out to the audience at home and I want you to touch the screen and receive the spirit, then I need you to write a check to my ministry. Your faithful tithe and generosity will be returned to you ten fold as you assist me to do the work of the Lord and HE told me to drive his Cadillac while I did so.
“I’ve always found it curious that a group which is so conflicted about the existence of God felt the need to found a CHURCH…
Oh you sweet, innocent summer child. The reason they founded a CHURCH is blindingly obvious:
Churches don’t pay taxes on their income.
After they contemplate a while, they might come to understand that “white” is not actually a color in the visible spectrum. That may cause your average Nantucket racist elitist some confusion.
White is the combination of all colors of the visible spectrum. Ironically black is the absence of any part of the visible spectrum. Thus white people are the true POC. trying telling that to someone that is black and watch their head spin/explode. I imagine any progressives head would similarly implode/explode.
Go away please. You give me headache..
You’re so open-minded that your brain leaked out
——
Love that!
Gee, how are going to get through the Fourth without them?
Its a Unitarian church. What do you expect? I think they worship knowledge. A friend of mine was raised Unitarian. In 1964, the day she turned 18, she was baptized and became a Christian.
That only means there will be more educated sinners in cemeteries.
A person can be baptised (by any mode) and not be saved.
A person can be saved and not be baptised (by any mode).
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There once was a church in Nantucket.
Whose members are truly up- f***–ed…..
People from Pawtucket don’t find that funny. 😉
The headline is misleading. This is not a church, it’s a unitarian shill for BLM. They became shills during George Floyd and haven’t stopped.
Don’t contact her, she says. Well we don’t have to ask why she doesn’t want to be told to quit lying and grifting.
Anthony Johnson was an African-American man who lived in the British colony of Virginia in the 17th century and was a slave owner.
…he is remembered for a legal case in which he successfully petitioned to have one of his former indentured workers, a white man called John Casor, declared his lifetime slave. This case gained him notoriety, and he is remembered today.
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves; the Southern slave population at the time was around 2.3 million people. [4] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.
Casor was an African so I doubt he was white. Both he and Johnson were from Angola. Johnson was an indentured servant as was Casor. Johnson was released from servitude, acquired Casor but refused to release him when his time was up. The case went to court and Johnson won thus essentially making Casor his lifetime servant or slave if you will. I don’t know whether Casor had a family or what their status was.
I’ve seen some material that argues that Johnson was actually not the first slave holder. Not sure if that is true or not. Everyone has an agenda and you have to question everything and everybody.
‘….to understand out own whiteness…’ Considering y’all live on Nantucket in a deep blue ideological bubble, literally on an island, separated from the rest of the USA….maybe y’all should get out and about to the rest of the USA for some additional perspective. Lefty Yankee Karens from areas who haven’t elected a ‘black’ Congressman maybe ever and certainly not now popping off about how TX, LA or Bama run their elections is …unconvincing at best.
Edward Brooke was a black senator from MA. He actually was the first black senator and he was a republican. Cadillac Deval Patrick was a recent black MA governor. He was or is an Obama BFF.
There is now a black rep from Boston – a member of the squad.
“He [Brook] actually was the first black senator and he was a republican.”
You’re trying to claim Brook as something he wasn’t. His voting record was identical to that other senator from MA, Ted Kennedy (who has almost completed 17 years of sobriety).
Republicans had a liberal Rockefeller wing them as democrats had a conservative wing called by various names at various times. The more liberal or liberarian wing of the republican party still (barely) exists in the Northeast. There are no longer any conservative or even moderate democrats. They were all purged.
Ok but my post wasn’t about Senator or Governor or Statewide elections but rather Congressional (HoR).If that wasn’t clear I apologize and I’ll restate it more clearly. Did the voters of Nantucket elect a ‘black’ Congressman to represent their Congressional District in the HoR? The distinction is important b/c they are are whining about Section 2 of the VRA being ‘gutted’ (as they termed it) by SCOTUS in the recent Callais opinion which was about creating districts.
No my mistake. I can’t recollect a black elected from there. They did elect gay Gary Studds multiple times (I assumed he represented Nantucket) even though he was found to have molested congressional pages. Guess that doesn’t count, eh?
I’ve considered my whiteness. It’s a product of having white parents, white grandparents, and white great grandparents. I don’t know any family history farther back.
There once was a church in Nantucket…
I admire your restraint.
I have none. I’m just a bad poet and you can’t think of the rest of the lines.
There once was a church in Nantucket
Where pews grew wild mushrooms to pluck it
The organ played jazz
While the vicar ate glass
And the hymnals all sprouted a bucket.
– copilot
I do not understand why this church wants to not support July 4th Independence Day that is on a Saturday and will not affect Sunday Service. This sounds more like a cause by the church leader(s) to try to stop people from supporting the country’s 250 year Independence Day. Race has nothing to do with our Independence Day and all Christians should know that if they understand the Bible.
I would love to hijack their audio-visual system one Sunday and play a couple of old Billy Graham sermons for them as a surprise. The place would clear out in a minute with members thinking judgement was at hand or at least the Tribulation.
the Unitarian Universalist Society is a “church”? Heh. That’s like calling the Ethics Society in NYC, if it still exists, a church. Nothing religious about either one of those entities.
Will they invite some blacks and other persons of color so they kiss their feet?
Another AWFL minister??? These elite “white” [ are so phony.
This is hilarious. Rumors are that UU was one of the 180 faiths Pete removed from the Pentagon’s list of recognized faiths, Serves them right.
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