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When the Rev. Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, President of the North American region of the World Council of Churches and pastor of First United Church of Tampa sat for an interview at a meeting of the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference (SDPC), and tacitly suggested that American Blacks are the real Jews, not a single media outlet covered it. Despite the press release.
SDPC, a recognized NGO of the United Nations, was co-founded in 2003 by the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., pastor emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Dr. Iva Carruthers, a member of the National African American Reparations Commission and former Chair of the Sociology Department at Northeastern Illinois University, and Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes III.
13,000 people of faith, 45 organizations reject attacks on Rev. Warnock and the Black Church
Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and her allies have attacked Black liberation theology and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s faith throughout the Georgia Senate runoff. In response, 13,292 people of faith and 45 faith-based organizations have released a letter calling these attacks an immoral, dangerous attempt to hijack religion for political gain.
The letter states in part, “As people and organizations of faith, we applaud the Rev. Raphael Warnock for preaching our shared values of nonviolence, righteousness and justice in the prophetic tradition of the Black church, following in the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his predecessor at Ebenezer Baptist Church…