You simply cannot make this up.
In order to find this reasonable, one would have to be totally turned off to over four hundred years of Slavery, Jim Crowe, the Prison Industrial Complex and the continued fight of black people against racial oppression and police abuse in America.
One would, however, be able to understand why these maladies have been so intransigent and difficult to stop
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A group of black Christian conservative leaders are calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan, R‑Wis., to censure Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters of California for comments she made last month urging supporters to directly harass administration officials at “anytime” and “anywhere” they see them.
African-American conservative activists and religious leaders gathered on Capitol Hill Thursday to pressure Ryan to formally condemn Waters on the House floor and proclaimed that Waters doesn’t speak to the “faith of all black America.”
In question are Waters’ comments at a California rally in late June in which she called for critics of the administration to confront Donald Trump administration officials when they see them at a restaurant, a gas station, a department store or wherever else they might be found in public.
Waters’ remarks came as there was much media coverage over Trump administration officials — White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — being kicked out of restaurants because they work for the Trump administration.
“Her call to extremism based on where another American citizen works and who they associate with must be sternly addressed by Speaker Paul Ryan,” Star Parker, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, said at a press conference. “An apology is not enough, nor did she offer one when asked by House Speaker. As we move into two months of intense debate over SCOTUS nomination, the censuring of Maxine Waters becomes of extreme urgency.”
Bishop Aubrey Shines of the nondenominational Glory to Glory Ministries in Tampa, Florida, asserted that lawmakers like Waters who say these types of things are also putting law-abiding supporters of the president — such as themselves — in harm’s way. Read more here:https://www.christianpost.com/news/black-christian-leaders-call-on-paul-ryan-to-censure-maxine-waters-call-to-extremism-225995/#.W0l-7JKvCJk.facebook