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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WHADDA PUTZ!
How does one act White? Use proper grammar? Obey the law? Wash and comb one’s hair? Wear pants that fit around the waist? Keep the audio system in a vehicle at a level comfortable for the riders in the vehicle? Stay away from drugs?
I guess I act white. I never knew that was a bad thing.
True enough.
I don’t follow those who worship Caesar.
Someone please tell me what “acting white” is like?
We will never get along, they say they want justice and peace, but really they want revenge and reparations. They want whites shackled with guilt and economic burden.
Time to part ways.
If white Christians in America acted more Christian than white
What Wallis means is White Christians should be like secular Marxists only then will they be “really saved”.
They have a conundrum, they want Whites dead, yet they don’t want to kill the Golden Goose.
It’s sad to say, but he’s a heretic and is both distorting and exploiting the situation, but there’s some truth in what he says.
The Christian base of the Republican party has to this point tolerated racism within the GOP and by avowed Christians when they discuss social and political issues. People who respond with racism to race problems may also be speaking some truth, but like liberals are distorting things too.
I know some will find those statements offensive, but they’re true. Christians are to remind each other to do good and not evil, including in speech. The world teaches that “talk is cheap” but not to the Lord. Every word we speak is so important to Him that He says we will have to give an account to Him for every idle one, and in this time and place that so disregards that, Christians would do well to make it known how the Lord regards our speech.
Jim Wallis is a heretic and is distorting and exploiting this situation, but it is nevertheless true that racism is being tolerated by Christians, and while racist opinions also can contain some truth, they also distort the truth as a whole. And we who are Christians should be making it known that while the world teaches that “talk is cheap,” that’s a lie. Christ said that every person will have to give an account to Him for every idle word we speak.
Typical liberal crappola.
It’s all you fake Christians fault.
Sorry, i’m just fed up seeing Christians crapped on by mooselimbs and liberal buttheads.
Christian and proud.
Reminds me of when my brother was about 6 - he and the next door neighbor kid had an argument and the kid told my brother, "Scotty, I'm going to hit you but don't you hit me back". Didn't work out the way the kid had hoped...
What is “acting white?”
There is some truth to what he is saying but when a liberal starts talking about right and wrong or faith and truth it is like holding a red flag in front of a bull that is already mad as hell because they do not know what right or wrong or faith and truth is, we can do well by not acting like them.
Race was not the issue at all but just bad judgment of the police officer who should be a peace officer instead of a Hitler worshipping clown.
When you holler at some one twice your size to get off of the street and then get out of the car to force them to do that you are willing to kill them or get your butt spanked.
No one, white or black wants to be treated like a peasant or a little kid by their public servants, and if the officer had any brains at all he should have figured he was not liked to begin with.
The fact that it was found that the guy helped rob a store earlier has nothing to do with it but it has changed the opinion of commentators.
The U.S and the states have the military to kill the enemies and protect this nation, that is not the job of the police force but it is a position they have been slowly putting them selves in.
They must have missed all the cases where whites are murdered and beaten by jacked up cops. I did not see any Black protestors in those cases. Also, there has been a lot of wildin’ (Black hate crimes against whites) going on by racist Blacks the dear preacher has managed to overlook.
The racists are the Blacks who demand the cop be indicted in a predetermined color centered way which is call injustice.
Whites who get involved in solidarity with racist Black causes usually end up dead.
Even if I thought the cop was unjustified in the shooting, I would not try to threaten the grand jury with a predetermined guilty outcome. I get outraged when the solid blue line of Unionistas derails a justified legal process to investigate a shooting in order to protect corrupt cops.
Blacks are "fearful for their children" because whitey is going to get them? Thanks for the laugh. Fact is, their children are probably 100 times more likely to be murdered by one another than by any white racist bogeyman.
And while we're at it, let's compare the number of whites murdered, robbed, or raped by blacks with the reverse, shall we?
What a load of baloney. Blacks have more to fear from other blacks than from whites...far more! Are we to believe that blacks are cowering in terror, fearful that some whitey will come and harm them? Oh, the poor, timid creatures! It's not like they ever speak up about their plight. It's not like they ever protest or riot. They just stay inside, quivering in fear of whitey, I suppose.
Well, what about all the black-on-white crimes, which are far more common than the reverse? It would make far more sense to tell blacks to "act less black" so that white parents can be less fearful for their children! But of course, that would be "racist."
Does anyone ever consciously think about “acting white”?
That just seems like a weird concept to me.
In the ghetto communities, "acting white" simply means not being a street thug, learning to read, write, and speak understandable English, and attempting to better yourself in some way. It's the internally-enforced social pressure against any kind of upward mobility in the community.
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