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Some o f us who consider our
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forms who we are and what we say and do.
1 believe that those o f us who are Christians
must take back Jesus and those of us who are
people o f faith must take back our ability to
frame our positions on critical social issues in
the context o f our faith.
The Jesus I am talking about is the one who
turned over the tables o f the moneychangers
right inside the temple. The Jesus I am talking
about said at the beginning of his ministry, “The
Spirit o f the Lord is upon me because he has
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Federal enforcement
of civil rights laws have
dropped sharply even as
the level o f complaints
increased. According to
a study by Syracuse Uni
versity, the Justice De
partment recommended
It is this Jesus, and the God who requires us
to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly
with ourG od, who informs my positions on tax
cuts for the wealthy in a nation where one in
every five children lives in poverty. It is this
God who makes me ask what is wrong with us
when tens o f thousands'of people die every
day from starvation and the United Nations
estimates that $ 13 billion allocated above cur
Bernice Powell Jackson is executive minis
ter fo r Justice and Witness Ministries o f the
United Church o f Christ.
prosecution in one-third
less cases than it did five
years ago.
While the University
did not site any conclu
sive reasons for the drop
in prosecution, one must
look to the major differ
ence in A m erica since
1999: the administration and poli
cies o f George W. Bush.
The drop in prosecutions has
nothing to do with an improvement
in racial relations. On the contrary,
an FBI report stated that racial preju
dice (usually directed towards Af
rican Americans) was the primary
motivating factor in more than half
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moral values o f a pre-emptive
strike war which we now know
was based on half-truths at
best and lies at worst.
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rent spending levels would mean that everyone
in the world (including Americans) would have
basic food and health care. At the same time,
Americans and Europeans spend $ 17 billion on
food for their pets every year.
I do want to talk about moral values. I want
to talk about the moral values o f a pre-emptive
strike war which we now know was based on
half-truths at best and lies at worst. I want to talk
about the more than 1 ,(XX) Americans who have
been killed in that war, and the 10,000 who have
come back home injured, and the tens o f thou
sands who will return with significant mental
conditions. I want to talk about the tens o f
thousands of Iraqi women and children — civil
ians all — who have been killed since the
beginning of this war.
I do want to talk about integrity and truth and
honesty and fairness. I do want to talk about
democracy and freedom and justice for all.
Moral values is about how we live life to
gether in the 21st century, understanding that
as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The moral
arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards
justice.”
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The Jesus I am talking about said, “You have
heard it said you shall love your neighbor and
hate your enemy. But I say to you love your
enemies and pray for those who persecute
you."The Jesus I am talking about neversaid
one word about homosexuality. The Jesus I
am talking about ate with the sinners, the
outcasts and the tax collectors. He drew to
himself those who were marginalized by
those in the faith — the women, the children,
the lepers, the unclean.
here fo r o n ly a w h ile. W hy
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let alo n e y ea rs su ffe rin g n ee d
le s s ly ? F in d y o u r fre e d o m
th ro u g h g o o d h ealth N O W ...
n atu ra lly . F ind y o u r freed o m
th ro u g h C h i r o p r a c tic ...a n d
m ake each day co u n t. Is n ’t it
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Can ’t we all, just get along?
Featuring:
A Moment of Silence For All Youth
When: Sunday Dec. 12
Where: Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
4009 N. Missouri Avenue
Time: 3:30 PM
Spoken Word: Rev. Johnasen L. Pack
Director: Rev. Charles E. McCleoud
Pastor: Johnny Pack IV Pastor
Where is the love?
o f 2OO3’s 7,400 (reported) hate
crimes.
A key reason for the decline in
civil rights law enforcement is the
burgeoning climate of hate and fear
that has permeated the country for
the past four years. 1 find it suspect
that as G eorge W. Bush sought the
African-American vote, African-
American victims o f racially m oti
vated hate crimes and civil rights
violations have faced increased
suffering.
W hen hate crim e reports in
crease and the first line method of
dealing with them decreases, there's
a problem.
Beyond the problem, however,
lies a com ing crisis. The Justice
Department was not founded to be
selective in what it prosecutes. It is
there to act as the nations’ police
force. It is the stopgap measure that
protects citizens against crim e,
oppression and societal wrong.
When the Justice Department fails
or refuses to do its job, citizens
become disenfranchised, crime in
creases and the system fails. A
system that chooses to fail some o f
us. fails all o f us.
The questi< m now becomes what
isG eorge W. Bush and his new A t
torney G eneral going to c h o o se to
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Judfte Greg Mathis is chairman
o f the Rainbow PUSH-Excel Board
and a national hoard member o f
the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.