Where is the black church?
I don't mean the "Just Us" fake, race-baiting reverends like Al and Jesse,
Where are the black ministers?
The last time I saw them on TV, they were marching on "Chuck's Gun Shop," in Riverdale, IL, protesting a legal business selling a legal product.
When we see heart-broken black women on the news, sobbing because their young child was just killed in a drive-by shooting, we all sympathize. But, why don't we see the religious leaders offering support and speaking out against the insane violence that occurs in their community on a daily basis?
It seems to me that the black ministers have given up. They leave their primary responsibility to a few brave souls like Bill Cosby, Juan Williams, Shelby Steele and Alvin Poussaint to tell it like it is and take the heat from the MSM.
That's just not right. The black church has to be the instrument of change.
It already is...PROGRESSIVISM.
"For one thing, I believed and still believe in the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change...I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world."
"And that is why that, if we truly hope to speak to people where they're at - to communicate our hopes and values in a way that's relevant to their own - then as progressives, we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse."
"Because when we ignore the debate...oers will fill the vacuum, those with the most insular views of faith, or those who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends."
"In other words, if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for, then the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons and Alan Keyeses will continue to hold sway."
'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address
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Note how Obama is hypocritical denouncing partisanship, even as he advocated using religion as a vector for socialism. Sickening.