Posted on 10/11/2014 5:22:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sojourners President and Founder Jim Wallis, one of several faith leaders who are heading to Ferguson, Missouri this weekend to march for justice, is challenging Christians to put their faith ahead of their race when it comes to issues concerning racial relations.
"If white Christians in America acted more Christian than white when it came to race, black parents would be less fearful for their children," said Wallis.
Christians who put faith ahead of race would not be afraid to take on tough racial issues like the police shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson with their peers and fight for equality, Wallis asserted.
Street protests broke out over the summer in Ferguson after 18-year-old African American Michael Brown was shot dead August 6 by white police office Darren Wilson after an altercation inside the officer's car. Witnesses say Brown was unarmed and holding his hands in the air when he was hit by eight to 10 bullets.
A grand jury was convened August 20 to decide whether or not to bring the matter to trial. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, Wilson testified before the jury composed of nine white members and six African American members September 16 for four hours, yet there has been little word whether he will be indicted. Last week a Twitter user claimed that the grand jury did not have enough evidence to "warrant an arrest." The possible information leak may cause further delays.
Wallis weighed in on the racial tension in America, saying, "Young black lives are worth less than young white lives in our criminal justice system and that's been painfully shown over and over again." He called this "an unacceptable reality" and declared "it's time to change."
"Time" he said "for white Christians to start acting Christians in America, not white people in America. Time for us to start acting like Christians first, white people second."
Christians, Wallis said, need to have honest discussions about race and what it means to be black in America.
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Di di di dittos.
What is “acting white”?>?
Apparently the worst thing imaginable
Walks like a racist. Quacks like a racist. It must be a racist.
He was a memeber of SDS in College before he went to seminary and he ran a paper named THE POST-AMERICAN while attending Trinity Evangelical Seminary in Chicago burbs...hes a liberation theological liberal and gets a lot of press because the media like this sort of drivel
We will let God sort it out as to whether he’s Christian or not. But my guess? Well, we will let God sort it out...
Freegards
LEX
Is Wallis really that stupid, or does he derive a large amount of his income from certain people forcing him to say stupid things?
Yeah, just by reading the headline, I agree. Time for another Crusade....
Jim Wallis - this is a “faith leader”? Oy!
Jim Wallis. Pro-Abortion.
No need to know anything else about his brand of “Christianity.”
Sorry, he doesn’t believe that there is a heaven.
I doubt heaven will apply to him anyways...
statistics show that whites have a far far greater chance of being victims of violent black criminals than the other way around. (a recent Horowitz column put it at 25 to 1)
This article is upside down Bullsh^t
I agree.
If it were a black perpetrator they would darn sure want due process.
All the race baiters are doing is stirring up trouble. I guess it makes them important.
There, fixed it. He is a Marxist thug who decided he could make more headway by infilitrating the church.
You’re right and there seems to be no end in sight.
“If white Christians in America acted more Christian than white when it came to race, black parents would be less fearful for their children,”
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Their black children are being killed by other black children and not by white children. Read the statistics.
Why is the burden always on white Christian people? Why do WE always need to change to accommodate someone else’s behavior or poor choices in life?
i am not dying for feral blacks who open fire on me. period.
Shut up and go back to your BLT church and never come out again!
Is 0bama his messiah?
There, reworded it correctly.
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