Posted on 01/16/2012 1:12:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The Rev. Harold Mayberry stood before his First African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation Sunday morning in Oakland and outlined how it was time for members to connect with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Nationally, many African American leaders have acknowledged a disconnect between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the larger black community.
Mayberry is among nearly two dozen prominent African American Bay Area pastors trying to bridge that gap at the community level through a growing national effort that is ramping up today - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - called Occupy the Dream.
Nationally, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, former NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis and a host of black faith leaders are involved.
At 10 a.m. in San Francisco today, many from the local faith community will participate in a demonstration at the Federal Reserve Bank to highlight the growing inequity between rich and poor in the United States.
But before many in Mayberry's 2,800-member congregation at 27th Street and Telegraph Avenue would agree to get involved, he had to explain how the movement was relevant to their lives.
Remember, the pastor said, when civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala., bus 57 years ago, "she was the original mover and shaker of the movement because she had enough nerve to defy injustice."
"She said, 'My feets is tired, but my soul is rested,' " Mayberry told his congregation to shouts of "Amen!" "The original Occupy the Dream movement began right there. In a movement, there is no place for wimps."
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Occupy Wall Street, Mayberry said, "had the right ideas, but it was without structure. People ask, 'Why the church?' No social movement in this country has succeeded without the involvement of the faith community."
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There goes the Occuhood!
Maybe they can occupy the homes of some pro athletes and rappers.
Something tells me that at some point I’ll be forced to help some of these folks to meet their maker...
Maybe they can occupy the homes of some pro athletes and rappers.
Haven’t you heard about the new Democrat messiah? Sheesh, man; where you been?
Actually politics do belong in the church but not as the primary focus. After all, America would have never come to be if the Black Robe Regiment hadn’t encouraged their flock to stand for their God given freedoms.
In this case the pastors are encouraging their flock to throw all responsibility aside and demand free stuff from rich folks which is about as far from Christ as one can get.
Like Carbon Footprints, or Wind Power....and as with the Occupy movement, an off shoot of Community organizing, it is big business....just follow the money. Wall Street is Barrack Hussein Obama’s huge pal for his campaigns...Civil Rights is still ‘deep’ pockets...it is a business.
Meanwhile here in Michigan, Al Sharpton is protesting outside Governor Snyder’s house against the “racist” emergency financial manager law.
I wish black pastors would organize to get black kids to school; then organize to make sure they do homework.
Not gonna happen, is it?
So how does being a pastor line up with encouraging people to envy as well as to whine for gimmes instead of working hard?
Ecellent point! Dare we hope? Truly, isn’t everyone tired of being told what to do? I would expect all races to move away from this group think and stand up for themselves. Enough blame!
Sounds like Barry has given the order to get them started moving in order to disrupt the Nov. election. They have to start now, in order to get them off their lazy asses by Nov.
It would be a lot better for him and his flock if he urged them to keep their zippers, up, get and education, take a shower, pull their pants up, and get some work ethic.
Why is that worldwide manufacturers go to China instead of Africa? Africa has a lot more natural resources. The question has a two word answer. WORK ETHIC. Go hang a round any big companies human resource office, notice the ethnicity of the applicants.
What the black church pastors need to preach is Christ, His rules, and work ethics. Not encouraging them to go hang around a bunch of bums.
Right. This could cause the original protesters to depart.
“Well, the music should improve”
How many of "the poor" could be fed and housed if Simmons sold his solid gold toilet?
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