After Ferguson and Eric Garner decisions, more white Christians say it’s time to stand with blacks
c. 2014 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) “African-American brothers and sisters, especially brothers, in this country are more likely to be arrested, more likely to be executed, more likely to be killed.”
It’s the kind of statement that’s often cited by black clergy and civil rights activists. But hours after a grand jury on Wednesday (December 3) chose not to indict the New York City police officer who put Eric Garner into a fatal hold on Staten Island, those words came from none other than white Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore.
