Yup, the National Council of “Churches” is playing the
race card, big time:
In the
wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of the murder of Trayvon Martin, the
National Council of Churches joins other people of faith and conscience in a
renewed call for racial justice.
This
summer as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we are reminded that
racism is alive and well. We have seen this in the Supreme Court’s recent
invalidation of parts of the Voting Rights Act and now in the shocking impunity
granted by a Florida jury to a man who stalked and killed a black child.
Oh and J. Herbert Nelson, the former head of the
Washington Office of the mainline Presbyterian Church, is at it, too:
I have
heard both blatant and subtle inferences that the actions of George Zimmerman
had nothing to do with race. The State Attorney for Florida [That’s Angela
Corey, an impeccable source – Ed.] declared last night that Trayvon Martin was
profiled, but she would not affirm that race was the basis of the profiling. Those
persons who believe that this killing had nothing to do with race are either
mistaken or naïve in their view of what history and our present reality reveals
about the United States of America. This tragedy is only one example of many,
that show that continued, insidious, and pervasive racism persist in this
country.
Once again, I am thankful I
shook the dust of the mainline Presbyterian "Church" and other members of the NCC
off my feet decades ago.
