An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest
…called me home. I got on a plane and flew back in time. When I arrived on Thursday, August 14, 2014, West Florissant was an occupied territory. It looked and felt like Watts, Birmingham and Palestine all at once, and I did not see you. Your absence made my presence suspicious. A clergy collar has come to signify cowardice—a scarlet letter deserving rebuke. Expletive after expletive was hurled not only at me but also at our entire class—and rightf…
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