As demonstrators protest the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, local religious leaders are preaching to congregants about the unfolding crisis. Here are excerpts from some of their sermons and speeches. (via latimesopinion)
As demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, local religious leaders have tried to help congregants understand the unfolding crisis. What follows are edited excerpts from some of their sermons and speeches.For the past three months, this country has put forth cautionary restrictions to stop the spread of a deadly virus and save lives.
We must stand and fight — not by looting and burning buildings, but by standing together in love and unity, while we seek the Lord for strategy, which will eradicate this awful blight of racism from amongst and within us.Advertisement America’s national sin is injustice. America’s national sin is systemic racism. America’s national sin is the denial to give opportunity to those who have been oppressed, left out, locked out, and given almost nothing to survive on for over 400 years in this nation.
Here we are again with not only a demonstration of the lack of unity and humanity, but the lack of justice, the lack of fairness, the lack of equality. Here we are again.This one got me, and it got me because it’s in such a sequence, another, and another and another one. When will it stop? It gets old that some of you will call for us to stand with you and pray with you, but when it’s our turn, you don’t say anything. You go back into the woodwork and you let us go out there by ourselves, because you don’t fully understand our pain.But if we’re supposed to be one in the Holy Ghost, which you say we are, then how can I hurt this bad, and you not care? And if you care, how can you not say anything? You call me for your prayer gatherings, and you say you have an ear in Washington.
If we are one in the spirit, then when you hurt, I hurt; when I hurt, you hurt. But I don’t hear you say ouch.My evangelical white brethren, sometimes it would at least help if you could cry with us. But in order to cry, you have to care.In the events of this week and this weekend, we can see that there are millions of our brothers and sisters who are still forced to suffer humiliation, indignity, and unequal opportunity just because of their race or the color of their skin.
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