Posted on 04/25/2021 3:50:44 PM PDT by Marchmain
Following the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who on April 20 was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Black Catholic leaders say it's a "small start" in both the country and the church's long overdue efforts for racial justice.
"It's a small start," said Ralph McCloud, the director of the U.S. bishops' domestic anti-poverty program, Catholic Campaign for Human Development. "But I can't help but think what it took for us to get here."
"Millions of people had to see the video of Floyd's killing and then take to the streets in protest for many Americans to see how the systems are skewed against people of color," McCloud told NCR. "So many other trials that are looming and so many other trials that have passed didn't have the luxury of this kind of exposure."
For three weeks, jury members heard gripping testimony from 45 witnesses, punctuated by devastating video footage of Floyd dying from cardiopulmonary arrest as Chauvin's knee rested on his neck.
The viral video is estimated to have been viewed more than 1 billion times following Floyd's killing on May 25, 2020. In the weeks that followed, protests and social unrest rippled across the globe, sparking an ongoing nationwide debate on policing and greater attention to America's unfinished work of guaranteeing civil rights for Black Americans.
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Following the verdict, the U.S. bishops' conference said "the death of George Floyd highlighted and amplified the deep need to see the sacredness in all people, but especially those who have been historically oppressed. Whatever the stage of human life, it not only matters, it is sacred."
“Racial justice”?
Justice rendered to abstractions of persons, to mere entities, to satisfy an entitiy’s attributed wants and demands (which mere abstractions cannot actually harbor, not being flesh and blood persona) is not justice at all for actual persons.
Not even if the results coincide with what actual justice would otherwise look like.
The US Catholic Bishops are woke. What a surprise.
And especially those who have held guns to the abdomens of pregnant women.
The Catholic Church continues its mission to drive more and more people away. I say this as a distraught Catholic.
How are Catholics doing in China?
The Church seems to want this to be the pattern.
Shame on them. Or damn them. Not sure what’s best.
“The systems are skewed against people of color,” McCloud told NCR.
Empty, spoiled brats pretending to be Catholic leaders have nothing original to say and nothing to offer mankind.
All political power has one job: to preserve the Catholic Church.
You can't stop discrimination by discriminating (Affirmative Action) and you can't correct past lynchings with more lynchings.
“The Catholic Church continues its mission to drive more and more people away.”
THAT, they are doing extremely well.
“Millions of people had to see the video of Floyd’s killing and then take to the streets in protest for many Americans to see how the systems are skewed against people of color,” McCloud told NCR
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This character is a freaking moron and so are the people who employ him.
The US Catholic Bishops are woke. What a surprise.
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The interesting thing about these Bishops is that they aren’t Catholics!
The Catholic Church continues its mission to drive more and more people away.
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Of course, that’s what they were directed to do by the prelates who orchestrated the Satan Vatican Council (1962-65)!
Shame on them. Or damn them. Not sure what’s best.
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They’re already shamed and damned, and unbeknownst to parishioners around the world, these prelates are no longer Catholics and neither are any of the people who attend Mass in what they mistakenly believe to be Catholic churches!
And now they approve of lynching.
So, black Catholic leaders come out in favor of lynching. Who’d a thunk it?
As a Catholic I have this to say to these bishops:FU.
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