Posted on 03/17/2021 10:34:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"No father should speak to their children like this," Kerrion Franklin posted with the recording.
Grammy-winning gospel singer Kirk Franklin apologized over the weekend after his son posted a recording of a phone call in which Franklin hurled profanities and an apparent threat at his son.
In audio of the partial phone call posted to Kerrion Franklin's Instagram account, the elder Franklin can be heard saying: "You need to get your skinny motherf-----g ass back out the g------ way before I put my foot in your ass."
"I will break your neck if you ever disrespect me," he continued before seeming to hang up.
"Did he just hang up the phone? 'I’ll break your neck.' Is that a threat?" Kerrion said before ending the recording.
The pair have had a tumultuous relationship. Kirk Franklin has two children with wife Tammy Collins and legally adopted her daughter from a previous relationship. Kerrion is Kirk's son from a previous relationship.
"This is why I’m done. No father should speak to their children like this," Kerrion posted in a caption alongside the video.
"Hanging up in my face, No apology, no compassion, no effort. Stop telling me to go home to my family I don’t even know where they live. I don’t think I’ll ever trust my father to be alone around him ever again," he added. "I didn’t want to do this. I probably won’t release the entire recording because it’s too embarrassing that Im even dealing with this."
On Saturday, Kirk Franklin, who hosts BET's reality singing competition "Sunday Best," posted a video to Twitter addressing the call.
"Many of you know I have an older son named Kerrion Franklin. ... We have had a toxic relationship with him as a family," Franklin said. "We’ve tried for many years — through counseling, through therapy — to try to rectify this private family matter."
He said that a therapist had been on the call earlier in the phone conversation, "but he never played that part of the recording."
"I felt extremely disrespected in that conversation and I lost my temper. And I said words that are not appropriate, and I am sincerely sorry to all of you," Franklin said. "I’m not perfect, I’m human and I’m going to make mistakes, and I’m trying to make it right. Please keep me and my family in your prayers."
Not shocked.
Why?
Hypocrisy is real, not only in politics, but even in religion.
The son is 33. From the “feel sorry for me, my dad is mean” tone, I thought this was a kid. He needs to grow up. And what’s the rest of the story? What did Kerrion do or say to make his father that angry? And how come he doesn’t know where his family lives? Are they avoiding him?
being a Christian doesn’t make people perfectly sinless- being saved simply means a sinner is saved - they are still prone to sin- that isn’t hypocrisy- that is a perfect God accepting people just as they are, and forgiving them when they do sin because He forgives past present and future- The only way a christian can be a hypocrite is for them to preach nonsense, or to preach we are perfect while factually being imperfect- I don’t know of any preachers that preach that we are perfect, or even that we can be this side of heaven- The preachers i know all say we ARE going to sin- over and over and over again, but that God still accepts us as we are because we accepted His Son as our savior- -
Sounds like he needs a new kid.
Sounds like the kid is a bum, and Franklin tried to give him a kick in the butt.
I like a lot about Frankin’s music but don’t know a lot about him persobally, but I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Without knowing the details, this story tells more like a slam again against Christians.
This is a father having an argument with his adult son. It happens thousands upon thousands of times a day in America. This is not news and it shows how far we’ve fallen that NBC News considers it a story worth their time. Just because it gets put on social media doesn’t make it newsworthy. How about some real reporting, NBC?
Whatever he did to anger his father, there’s simply no excuse for a grown adult, who claims to be a Christian to talk to their kids like that.
No wonder the relationship is toxic. I’m guessing this is not the first time the dad talked to his kids like that.
Sounds like the kid needs a new dad.
There could be a reason the kid was so messed up.
Another example of pisspoor amateurish, confusing writing. Done by an NBC writer, I assume, from the headline information.
NBC - Nothing But Confusion
How wonderful, oh holy one, do you have never lost your temper! I bow down to your superior self righteous perfection.
My guess is God has plenty of recordings of you losing your temper, and you were judging this and without knowing anything about what his son has done to him and his family is the same self-righteous hypocrisy we condemn and liberals. Galatians for joining the anti-Christian propaganda brigade.
It’s propaganda because blacks and liberals who talk like that will never get recorded, never get judged, and most important of all, never get pounced on by people who are supposed to have their back.
Never heard of Kirk Franklin, but he can put this story to rest by simply saying he’s moving from gospel into rap. :-P
Well played!
Everything about this situation is miserable, starting with “Kerrion is Kirk’s son from a previous relationship.”
Thanks, stone caster.
First, thank you for the short sermon, that of which I already know. That said, being a Christian does not, in no way, shape or form, remove someone from being a hypocrite or being ascribed as being a hypocrite. Hypocrisy is real, within both politics and religion.
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