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Pastor Manning

Pastor and community leader who speaks on issues affecting the black community, known for controversial and direct commentary on family structure, personal responsibility, and spiritual matters. He shares openly about his own past failures in marriage and fatherhood.

2 appearances

Hodgetwins Podcast

Pastor Manning Explains Why Black Fathers Are Becoming An Endangered Species...

In this emotionally raw episode, Pastor Manning addresses the crisis of absent black fathers and family breakdown in African American communities. He opens with a deeply personal confession about his own past failures as a husband and father, describing how he abandoned his family in his early twenties, caught up in infidelity and substance abuse. Manning uses his own painful experience to illustrate the broader epidemic of black men fleeing family responsibilities, rejecting the Democratic narrative that racism is the primary cause and instead pointing to spiritual and moral failures. The conversation shifts to discuss violence among black women and the deep-seated anger Manning perceives in the black female community. He controversially attributes much of this to feelings of abandonment by black men and what he views as the symbolic betrayal represented by Barack Obama having a white mother rather than a black one. Manning argues this sent a message to black women that they were being passed over even in this historic moment. Throughout the discussion, Manning emphasizes spiritual restoration and male leadership in families as the solution to these social problems, while acknowledging the immense damage done over multiple generations.

11 min•Black Fatherhood Crisis · Family Breakdown

Hodgetwins Podcast

"I Slept With Damn Near ALL My Cousins!" | Pastor Manning Exposes DARK Truth About Black People...

This episode features Pastor Manning sharing his life story, from his turbulent past to his spiritual transformation. He recounts how he went from working a prestigious marketing job at Procter & Gamble to stealing jewelry and eventually landing in jail, where he experienced a profound religious conversion. Manning describes praying in his jail cell and having Jesus visit him, which led to his path as a preacher in some of the roughest prisons in America. The conversation takes a surprising turn as Manning reflects on growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, painting a vivid picture of life in Harlem and on a North Carolina plantation. He describes the 1960s as a 'delightful' period, contradicting common narratives about systemic racism, and recalls Harlem as a thriving cultural Mecca filled with music, style, and prosperity. Manning also candidly discusses his childhood on a segregated plantation, including controversial admissions about sexual relationships with his cousins, which he frames as a normalized part of rural Southern culture during that era.

9 min•religious conversion · Black history