“My nuclear family is worth dying for.” – Keshia Bean
The power of their nuclear family was demonstrated the day when Jim Bean III spoke at a Lakeville Area School board meeting and his wife Keshia stood silently next to him, holding signs that supported her husband’s words in their shared message.
As a black couple living in Minnesota, Jim and Keshia were not going to let Black Lives Matter stroll in and disrupt the nuclear family they had worked so hard to build.
Jim’s 22 years as a Christian pastor gave him the confidence to elegantly deliver a three-minute speech in which he addressed the harmful impact the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is having within America’s communities and schools, in particular.
The video now has nearly 200,000 views on YouTube.
I met up with the power couple to discuss their views in detail.
“The slogan is very cunning,” Jim said about BLM. “It’s a slogan that most people will agree with. Especially as a black person, you believe your life matters.”
That is until he conducted his own research and saw what their leadership and movement were really promoting.
In his research, coupled with his personal experience as a citizen of Minneapolis and having a front-row seat to the BLM induced chaos surrounding George Floyd’s death in 2020, he discovered that he doesn’t agree with the message they’re pushing.
“It was something I could not spiritually and politically align myself with. Even though the slogan sounded good,” Jim shared. Sitting down with family friends revealed to Jim just how brainwashing and impactful the BLM message really is.
Jim explained, “When I talk to a lot of family friends who are black, when I sit down with them and we go over the issues, they end up saying at the end of our conversation ‘I agree with you but…’ It’s like they have to, they’re obligated to go along with BLM and the Democrat party.”
Once the BLM movement made its way into the schools, the Beans felt they had to stand up for what was right, especially since it was directly affecting their four school-aged children.
BLM’s dedication to disrupting the nuclear family was taken personally by the Beans and they refuse to stand by in silence.
“I was very shocked when you really dig deep into BLM,” said Jim. “They don’t want a straight, Christian man involved with their movement. Which is so funny because LeBron James is such a big fan, but he would not be welcome in their leadership. All of their leaders are lesbian, and there’s really no room for a straight, heterosexual, Christian man.”
As someone who grew up with a single mother, Keshia is especially sensitive to the threat BLM directly poses to her family.
Keshia watched her mother struggle to raise her and her brother on her own. She learned of the hard path youths take when they are directionless, turning to gangs to get the fatherly protection they yearn for.
So when she met Jim, whose parents were not only still together but raising five children in the church, she knew that was the experience she wanted to provide for her own children.
Jim and Keshia will celebrate 17 years of marriage on October 2 and the nuclear family means everything to Keshia. She is incredibly protective of what she and Jim have built together.
“I detest ANY group [laughs] any group that says they wanna come in and destroy that,” she proclaimed.
Jim grew up within a two-parent household, learning early on the importance of having stability at home and a father figure who provided a solid foundation to grow while instilling discipline.
He watched others seek out the approval from another male, to fill that part in their heart that a father would usually fill. They wanted someone to give them that attention, to say “Son, I’m proud of you” or to be there for protection.
“I’ve experienced that growing up, you know my dad was always there, but I had friends whose dad was not there so they had a lot of — their mom was working — so they had a lot of time on their hands and they found themselves making a lot of bad decisions,” Jim recalled. “Decisions when they asked me if I wanted to join, I was like, ‘Hey, my daddy will kick my butt if I did this with you guys.’ ”
Though they value their nuclear family very deeply, they understand that not all people are able to have what they have.
Jim doesn’t believe that children without a family structure like his are doomed, but rather that whatever parents are present need to step up and take accountability, regardless of their interpersonal relationship with each other.
“Even if a parent breaks up or they get a divorce, at least still give that attention to your children, to be there for them so that they don’t have to seek attention and approval from others. Stay involved in their life, hold them accountable, help them set goals, and help them take the necessary steps to achieve those goals. Because a lot of times, the love of a dad or even a mom can really drive these children to success and to greatness.”
The Beans strive to set an example for other parents to exercise their right to educate their children, free from dogmas and creeds.
They are removing their children from school this month to educate them from home instead.
Keshia and a friend have started a micro-school, Minnesota Conservative Arts Academy, in order to teach their children proper values that will help them grow. They hope to open the school the day after Labor Day.
Keshia is encouraging other parents to do the same.
“Take action,” Keshia pleaded, “Like you have to do something. It’s one thing to go into the school board and yell and scream and fuss and cuss and you know get all riled up about what they’re doing. It’s another thing to pull your kids out of that demonic, out of that system.”
Jim has also dedicated himself to his new startup, Valour Ministries, and is currently conducting church service on Sundays out of a parishioner’s home.
He leans on his spiritual strength and provokes others to do the same, especially when times get difficult, “Remember the importance of the word of God, studying and understanding it. It does have a direct influence on our life and the decisions that we make.”
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