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God’s Prophet in Non-Violence
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the quotes are never put in a con­
text,” he says.
Haynes says context is so criti­
cally important because King can­
not be accurately portrayed with­
out his faith tradition or without his
radical perspectives.
“We who followed him at that time
were willing to die for the movement,
and die for freedom. That’s not the
King that America is creating.”
Not one to denote the title of
“radical” to himself, Haynes says
he is “a prophetic Black Freedom
Fighter,” implementing the tools of
se le c tiv e b u y in g , p ic k e tin g ,
marches, and civil disobedience as
effective and non-violent methods
for making racial progress today.
Repeating a focused drawl be­
fore finding the right words, he says
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leadership of Stokely Carmichael
who would later go on to found the
All African People’s Revolutionary
Party. Carmichael changed his name
about a decade before his passing
in 1991 to Kwame Toure and is cred­
ited with coining the term “Black
Power.”
The SNCC would merge with the
local chapter of the Black Panther
Party, an ever-growing national
movement that also called for the
liberation o f black A m ericans
through organizing, but was not
hesitant to meet violence with vio­
lence when it came to the terrorism
directed towards blacks, either by
authorities, racist hate groups or
u o o s rropnet in Non-Violence ’ by Portland Pastor Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr. explores the non­
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violent activism of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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emerge in the nation at the time.
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for alternative modes of achieving Church, has been in operation since
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not only racial equality, but pride of 1971 and represents 125 churches in
self, he says.
the Portland area, most of which are
Where previously blackness was stationed in north and northeast
seen as a negative, black activists Portland.
began to remake it into a positive.
Though he says many of the
“The Black Cultural Revolution problems black Americans face in
really brought about identity and Oregon are not far removed from the
the beauty of blackness and the plights they tend to face nation­
beauty of black culture,” Haynes wide, issues like education, eco­
says.
nomics, affordable housing, mass
Ideologies clashed when the non­ incarceration, black-pn-black crime,
violent methods of the Civil Rights and institutional racism, there is a
Era began to fizzle out. Before long major difference in how the contro­
the two groups would part ways, versies are addressed here.
leaving many members left to de­
“Now the difference from the
cide on which group to align with; Southern tradition of racism, in Or­
Haynes would choose the more egon and in particular Portland, is
militant of the two.
that sometimes it’s hidden, and
He went on to head the Dallas sometimes it’s masked, and some­
Black Panther Party and form cadres times it’s institutionalized, and it’s
With more than 60 different degree and
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given a very liberal progressive face;
Haynes’ newfound militant ways and there is certainly a very strong
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in the Christian faith saw him once Haynes says.
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again dedicating himself to a belief
In “God’s Prophet” Haynes says
looking to start a career, change careers,
system of non-violence.
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or launch your own business, Cascade
He forfeited his position as co­ brought to police shootings in Port­
Campus has what you need.
organizer of the Dallas Black Panther land over the past decade, such as
Party and began to dig deeper into his the Aaron Campbell and James
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Haynes cautions people that the
All the while, Haynes continued ideas of “love” and non-violence
his work against racial oppression; King preached were not ones of
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