We must learn to listen Will White People Ever Acknowledge Systemic Injustice” Pastor Leonce Crump provides some valuable insight that should guide the response of white evangelicals. Beyond the problem of racism, we must see the pain that injustice inflicts. Leonce shares: “I am 6’5”. I weigh 270 pounds. I’ve been called imposing. The police have stopped me, both walking and driving, nearly once a year since I was 15 years old. Though I have been asked to leave my vehicle, thrown to the ground and against my vehicle, interrogated, frisked, and cuffed on these occasions, I’ve not been cited. Not once. Until you feel the humiliation of this moment, particularly as a “decent, civilized, educated black,”—Yes, that’s an actual quote of how someone referred to me once, behind my back of course—then you cannot say that it is an anomaly. You cannot say that someone was “just doing his or her job.”
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:10:03 +0000
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