T.D. Jakes on Michael Brown: Racial Profiling Puts Black Men 'on the Endangered List'
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REUTERS/LUCAS JACKSON)
BY STEPHANIE SAMUEL , CHRISTIAN
POST REPORTER
Protesters gesture as they stand in a street in defiance of
a midnight curfew meant to stem ongoing demonstrations in reaction to the
shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 17, 2014. The group of
protesters angry at the shooting death of Brown, a black teenager, by a white
police officer remained on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Sunday
minutes past the declared curfew, as police began to clear the streets in a
tense standoff.
Texas Megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes blamed racial profiling
for the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, saying America is
far from being a post-racial society and that racial profiling is putting black
men "on the endangered list," in a blog published on Huffington
Post.com.
In the essay posted Tuesday morning, Jakes wrote "We
are a far cry from the post-racial, peace and love society envisioned by '60s
idealists or the melting pot that our forefathers portended."
He argued that cities like Ferguson are still being governed
with race-related tactics such racial profiling.
"Although legislation was put forth to end this heinous
exercise, the state of Missouri's own 2013 statistics show the disproportionate
execution of 'just-us' Ferguson-style: Of the 5,384 police stops, 686 were
white, while 4,632 were black. Of 611 searches, 47 were white, 562 were black.
Of 521 arrests, 36 were white, 483 were black," he wrote. Read more >>
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