I don't usually give much thought/attention to Al Sharpton, but I can appreciate this.
"There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end brutality and poverty, but to break into people's bedrooms and claim that God sent you," Sharpton told a full house on Sunday.
"It amazes me," he said, "when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being [relegated] into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners."
On the Oscar Grant killing in Oakland. Here's the article.
People use their religions to spearhead civil inequality (which they shouldn't have a fucking thing to do with anyway and frankly any church that wants to mobilize and get that deep in politics needs to lose their tax exempt status) and hate, even violence, but not to call people out on their blatant criminal acts.
Yeah. I think they do need to be slammed. Called out.
Found via Feministing and Pam's House Blend.
"It amazes me," he said, "when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being [relegated] into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners."
On the Oscar Grant killing in Oakland. Here's the article.
People use their religions to spearhead civil inequality (which they shouldn't have a fucking thing to do with anyway and frankly any church that wants to mobilize and get that deep in politics needs to lose their tax exempt status) and hate, even violence, but not to call people out on their blatant criminal acts.
Yeah. I think they do need to be slammed. Called out.
Found via Feministing and Pam's House Blend.