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Equality and
justice for all
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Ferguson,
Mo.
awakened
many
Americans to a real-
ity too well known in
communities of color
throughout the na-
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City to Los Angeles,
Cleveland, Cincinnati and – just
this month – Milwaukee, the
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African- American male is shot
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This is an issue that warrants
further and even continuous
attention, because it is a wide-
spread malady. Not only the
shooting deaths, but what usu-
ally rises to the surface is years
and years of concern and re-
sentment about and toward the
police.
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is region alone, Ferguson was
only one of several municipal-
ities where the justice depart-
ment found clear evidence of
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racist policies and practices tar-
geted at African Americans.
In this article, titled “Fer-
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but Bias Knows No Border,”
Vanita Gupta, the Jus-
tice Department’s top
civil rights prosecutor,
makes the point, say-
ing, “Ferguson is one
dot in the state, and
there are many munic-
ipalities in the region
engaged in the same practices a
mile away.”
Just as the 50th anniversa-
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Montgomery commemorates
the culmination of just a single
chapter in what has been an on-
going struggle for racial justice
and equality, we may one day
look back on Ferguson as the
beginning of another chapter in
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cern was about desegregation
and the basic right to vote. Po-
lice brutality and abuse of force
was a reality then, but voting
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after many years and all too
many incidents of unarmed Af-
rican Americans being gunned
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questionable circumstances, is
the behavior and accountability
of these public servants the fo-
cus of advocacy for change.
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many things have changed. One
of the changes that is a direct
result of the Voting Rights Act
is that there are many more
African-American elected of-
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We can celebrate these changes
and accomplishments, but only
as steps toward the ultimate
goal – equality in all facets of
American life, including and
especially our systems of law
enforcement and justice.
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standing of racial justice has
evolved as well. Racial justice
is about equal justice for all
Americans. We need to empha-
size all, without neglecting the
historic experience and partic-
ular concerns of any racial or
ethnic group. It is about equal
treatment under the law for Af-
rican Americans for sure, but it
is also about equal treatment in
law enforcement and the justice
system for Native Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Asian
Americans, Arab Americans
and Euro Americans.
It is important to note that
this is a concern for all and that
we cannot continue to live un-
der the illusion that racism and
racial injustice are problems
for African Americans or other
racial ethnic groups to contend
with exclusively. In truth, much
of the needed change has to do
with the attitudes and behaviors
of Euro Americans.
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Montgomery brought togeth-
er people of all races and reli-
gions in the struggle for justice.
This new chapter requires that
all people of good will, people
who envision an America where
our values and our realities are
aligned, take up the cause.
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ica is becoming a very diverse
society, probably the most di-
verse nation in the world. It is
in the best interest of all that we
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gether.
The Rev. Geoffrey A. Black is
general minister and president
of the United Church of Christ.
