Comments on: You’ve Gotta Speak Out

By: Stoakley

Stoakley — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:49:10 +0000

Just read a very interesting article about speaking out within our community.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/fashion/african-american-atheists.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4

“In most African-American communities, it is more acceptable to be a criminal who goes to church on Sunday, while selling drugs to kids all week, than to be an atheist who … contributes to society and supports his family.”
-Wrath James White 41-year-old Austin-based writer of the Blog blog “Words of Wrath,”

By: Alecia_HBOP

Alecia_HBOP — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:33:24 +0000

‘ IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION, THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM- MALCOM X’ “Truly, God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” (Quran 13:11)

By: Alecia_HBOP

Alecia_HBOP — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:27:09 +0000

We must speak out against any injustice… in our homes, our families, our communities, our schools, our jobs, our cities, our states, our country and throughout the world… and we must teach out children to recognize it and speak out against it.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)