To The ROOT with Domonique Scott of TLC’s The Sisterhood
We go to the ROOT of it with Dominique Scott from TLC’s hit reality series, “The Sisterhood”
She is the outspoken, no nonsense Pastor and First lady who took TLC (not the multi-platinum group) by storm on the new reality show, “The Sisterhood.” Good, bad or indifferent, everyone had something to say about the show. Pastor Donnie McClurkin even went as far as to try and get the show taken off the air for good! Dominique, or Pastor D, as he is affectionately called, addresses that, why she met with her baby Daddy/Former pimp and why Christians are so far behind, in a ROOT EXCLUSIVE!
Root: Has the second season of “The Sisterhood” been picked up as of yet?
Domonique Scott: The votes are still out and there has been a lot of talk but we
haven’t received the final word yet.
Root: The show “The Sisterhood”, has received so much backlash specifically from the
church community. Even people like Pastor Donnie McClurkin was very vocal about
getting the show off the air. Why do you think that is?
Domonique Scott: Anytime the body of Christ goes through a change that they are unfamiliar with, this is the way that they respond to it. It was no different when Christ said when you see my Father you see me and they went against Jesus because it was something new that challenged and pushed them to see God and their fellow man in a different light. So of course, they responded like “It’s blasphemy” or “It’s not of God”, so it seems to be a historical pattern when change hits the body of Christ.
Root: When you signed on to do the show did you take into consideration that the show would ruffle some feathers?
Domonique Scott: Honestly I did not because the show was initially named “The Pastor’s Wives” and once they changed it to “The Sisterhood”, I had a level of comfort because it wasn’t focused as much on the pastors and the church but more so focused on a group of women that happened to be pastors and first ladies who were movers and shakers in their community both in the secular community and in Christendom. So I looked at it as them showcasing all of us in a dual anointing so it was fine with me.
Root: Reality TV has a way of showing mostly negative images and on “The Sisterhood”; we saw more negative than positive. How does a show like “The Sisterhood” differ from shows like “Basketball Wives” and Real Housewives of Atlanta?”
Domonique Scott: Well we are not cussing one another out, we are not crossing tables or pulling out weaves but yes, we do have our disputes and opinions and we are women. Because God is in our lives we don’t respond or react like women who don’t practice Christianity.
Root: I don’t know if all of the women on the show knew one another prior to the show. In your opinion, do you believe that “The Sisterhood” is an appropriate title for the show? Are all of you women really “A Sisterhood” at the end of the day?
Domonique Scott: “The Sisterhood” is an appropriate title because the goal was to connect a group of women who did not know one another and follow the development of their relationship as it relates to supporting one another get through the issues of life. I am very close friends with a few of the cast mates. As it relates to the other cast mates we are just in the vineyard.
Root: I noticed on the show that you have a keen sense of style. Where does your sense of style come from?
Domonique Scott: People always told me I look like Mary J. Blige, I have an alter ego and dance like Beyoncé and I preach like Juanita Bynum. So those three together is my style and my flavor. Those are three women that I really love and admire for different reasons and characteristics of strength.
Root: It has been reported that you and your husband foreclosed on your church a few years ago. What’s going on with that?
Domonique Scott: We actually closed our church in the summer of 2011 and we have since re-launched our ministry in February 2013. It is now back open, it’s thriving and it is located in Johns Creek, Georgia. We started having services during the week of the last episode and since then the church has been growing. My husband often says that people are always talking negatively about Reality TV but reality TV played a significant role in launching a church so run tell that.
Root: On the show, out of all of the ladies, you had the most conflict with Tara. Why did the two of you consistently bump heads?
Domonique Scott: We are just different! Pastor Tara……I don’t know…She is just different. She is one of those people in the church that if you cross the street wrong, you’re going to hell. She is one of those women who is always preaching the gospel and I get that because when I got saved, I got saved in holiness, but at the same time I learned that not everything sends you to hell. So Tara is still in that primitive state of being and her attitude just comes off wrong but I believe we will have to give her a lot of time and a lot of love and make her understand that is not the will of God.
Root: You were very transparent on the show with all of the things that you went through in the past, from drugs to prostitution. Do you think that it was the right thing for you to go back t o Miami and face those demons that you left behind so many years ago?
Domonique Scott: For me I think it was the right thing to do. Keeping in perspective that I went there to close doors on things officially. I had been out of that house for 20 years so in those 20 years I had the opportunity to build my house stronger but I had to go back there to bring closure to some things. Oftentimes we ask god to help us and when he sends us help, if it is not dressed the way we want it to dress or does not smell the way we want it to smell, we automatically think that was not God sending us help. Many people don’t realize that J. Baby was the help that I needed in that season of my life. Is he the help that I need, trust or rely on today? No. However, as a 14 year- old girl who had nobody, he was the covering for me as Rahab was to the angels that came and set order to a city and so he was that for me. Once I escaped the city God did what he needed to in my life as he did in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. So, we have to understand that our help does not always come the way that we want it to but its still does not change the fact that it is help.
Root: I hear you but we live in a time where social media runs the world and many people were on Twitter and Facebook coming against you and wondering why on earth you would meet your former pimp.
Domonique Scott: Those are people who are afraid because they feel like they could never do that and I understand that. But when God brings you out of something it is your responsibility to go back and let people out of the prisons that we have been set free from. When Christ got out of Hell he went back and let everybody out, so I don’t understand the fear that we have as Christians.
Root: There was another heated topic that you were in the center of on the show regarding DeLana and her husband living on a plantation. Do you feel that DeLana is racist?
Domonique Scott: No I don’t feel that DeLana is racist; I just think her and her husband need a sensitivity training class. Corporate America has sensitivity training classes all the time. It’s only in the body of Christ where we get saved and we get stupid! Corporate America has these training so that we can be sensitive to other people’s cultures and beliefs. Lack of sensitivity will cause explosions like the one everyone saw on the show. The plantation that they live in is in 2012 and it is not a historical landmark that was erected in 1826. There are no crops growing on the property, there is an Olympic size pool on the property and a three- car garage, so nothing on that property speaks “plantation”, therefore Delana and her husband just need to take a sensitivity training course because it can offensive to some people.
Root: What have you learned from being on Reality Television?
Domonique Scott: Wow, that’s a loaded question. As far as Christianity, we have not shown that much growth. We have shown a measure of growth but not the level of growth that you would expect. When you look at the growth level from when Christ walked the earth until present day, we have far to go. We have social media and technology and we can reach the masses in an instant, whereas in the bible days, they had to travel for months just to get the word out. However, the love of God that some of the generals in Christendom should have does not profess. For instance, not only did Donnie McClurkin come for me and boycott “The Sisterhood”, so did Jamal Bryant and Marvin Sapp! Marvin Sapp came for me but he cut a record with Kandi from Real Housewives of Atlanta and you know that she is sleeping with Todd and she is not married but yet you wanna come against me when I’m just being me and I am a married woman who is serving the same God as you. I love Kandi and this is not a slap against Kandi but if we are gonna call a spade a spade; let’s call a spade a spade. So, for the generals who have been delivered from much, like Donnie McClurkin who is till struggling and Jamal Bryant who got his secretary pregnant, how dare they open their mouth and come for me. I was very surprised and shocked to see that because I really expected more from the Kingdom of God. I have received more love from people in the street than I have in the Kingdom of God and that is a sad situation!
This is one of the most stupidest self-centered persons I have ever seen on TV. She think she is all that, Tara is more honest than her she just does not see because she is so IGNORANT. Here in the ATL area anyone can open up a place and call it a Church and don’t have the proper credentials. You are no mover or shaker. You got put out because of low turn-out and you could not pay your bills. You moved alright. This woman is a trip. The church she just reopened will be closed soon because people will see she is a fraud and a fake, like her hair. Take off that tacky wig and we’ll see how much she looks like Mary J.
First let me start by saying the i love Domonique on the show. I think that she brought a strong flavor of real to the show. She was able to show the world herimperfections to not only help herself but others. Many dont appreciate her story but you have to be strong and have trust in God to bear your heart and soul like that. @Tanisha I think you comments are rude and if you are a christian I don’t believe we serve the same God. Jesus did NOT judge his fellow man because our flesh is weak. We as Christians are working to be like Christ but we will never get there because we are not perfect. Tara will not even go out into the streets and fellowship and minister to the people that need help. Tara is FAKE. She means no good I don’t care how much she quotes the bible. Anyone can read the bible but what is most important is walking as Jesus did to save our fellow man. That’s what Christianity is supposed to be but unfortunately its not. Love and non judgement is the answer. By the way tanisha I think Tara’s hair was the fakest of them all and her eyebrows were drawn on. So sit down with you ignorant ass. Excuse my french!
I have nothing but respect for Dominique. She is real, brilliant, highly educated and a true Christian. She is not phony in any sense of the word. She is the complete opposite. I am so happy for her and her family that they were able to accomplish the goal of opening their church again. If I am ever in that area I would love to go to their church. It would be an honor to meet her. She doesn’t say derogatory remarks against anyone, she does her research and brings out the obvious contradictions in the lives of those who criticize her. She is a remarkable Christian woman to go back to Miami and face the pain that she suffered as a little girl. She is inspirational to women of all faiths everywhere. It was a reality show and she kept it real. Tara and her Jewish husband ruined that show for everyone. Tara is a oreo. She is black on the outside and white on the inside. Her husband thinks he is the great white hope to black people. He views black people as savages that need to be saved and rescued by him. He does not see Tara as his wife he see’s her as his black wife. He see’s his kids not as his kids but as his black/Jew kids. He was constantly making racial remarks against black cast members. He is a racist. And just because he married a house negro like Tara does not change that. White slave masters had sex with their black slave women all the time. He is just using Tara to make it big in the black Christian world where he will never be accepted. He is a Messianic Jew. They are Jews who believe in Jesus. So there is nothing new about his message. Tara has to be one of the ugliest women I have ever seen. She is ugly on the outside as well as the inside. She can’t put her wig which looks like a birds nest on straight because she is bald. That mop of a wig she has on her bald head looks ridiculous. She obviously shaved her head. That may be a Jewish thing too. Some Hasidic Jewish women do shave their heads. And that whole bar mitzvah celebration was a real joke. First of all her son is in no way Jewish. Jewishness is passed through by the mother not the father. None of her kids are Jewish. They are biracial but not Jews. The only way they would be considered Jews is if she were a Jew, either born that way or through conversion, prior to the birth of her child. And there is no such thing as a Christian bar mitzvah. And her husband made the remark that they the Jews were the first black people. What an idiot. He is not really Jewish. He is an Askanazi Jew. He is a European Jew not a Jew from the middle east. Not a Jew from the line of Moses. Askanazi Jews are white people who converted. They are responsible for all the wars in the middle east. They are a bunch of white racist people. And he is an idiot. Another thing I noticed Tara and her white master are into all this healthy eating but their son is definitely on the chubby side.
I really hope that TLC brings back the show: Sisterhood. TLC should give them another season. I really became engrossed in their show. And then TLC took it off the air. Nobody is boycotting that show. It is one of the best reality shows yet. TLC seems to be confused as to what to offer the viewing public. They get us on board for a show and then they just cancel it. And everyone is left hanging. Now we are back to watching gypsies and the Duggars. They gave the Duggars almost ten years. What is the gist of their show? It is about a woman who uses her uterus like a clown car. The Duggars are not real Christians and yet nobody wanted to boycott their show. The Duggars philosophy put women back hundreds of years. In their faith a woman is defined in terms of how many children she can produce. A woman has to be submissive. The man rules with a iron fist. The girls must all wear dresses and not cut their hair. There is no room for dissension everyone must be on the same page. The children are used as slaves. They are like extra wives relegated to doing household chores and taking care of their siblings. Their marriages are arranged. They have no voice. They don’t interact with others whose opinion or belief system differs from theirs.. There is forced obedience. They are not allow to freely choose their future partners. They can’t go to school. They are home schooled according to a curriculum set up by those in the quiverful movement. Yet this is all fine with the public and TLC. This is not Christianity is any sense this is a cult. And this cult has been on season after season. Never is a person of color on their show unless they are in some foreign country proselytizing. The Duggars come bearing gifts in the form of food and necessities to these Latino people but underneath it all it is about conversion. People say that the Duggars are self sufficient. What a bunch of malarkey. TLC built there 5,000 square foot house from the ground up. Many people gave free labor to help them build the house. Lowe’s donated a lot of things to them. TLC did a complete kitchen remodel on their home. They provided the granite counter tops, washers and dryers, stainless steel stove, refrigerators, etc. TLC pays for them to travel the world. They have been to: Ireland, Israel, Scotland, New York, Washington DC, China and Japan. And TLC has footed the bill for other trips. TLC paid the astronomical bill that was racked up when Josie was born. Her stay in the ICU was at least close to a million dollars. TLC paid for the funeral of their miscarried baby. TLC helped Josh get his first car business and open a second. TLC paid for the wedding of their son and when Michelle and her husband renewed their vows. And on top of all of that they get over 75,000 dollars per episode. And what is their claim to fame? It is about some cult like Christians who use the airways to spread their Christian dogma, and set back the hands of time. Yet all these people want to take Sisterhood off the air. Why is that? Is it because they keep it real? Is it because white conservative Christians are more important than Christians of color?
i think tara is very pretentious and fake.