Radical Black Christians in the New Civil Rights Movement
by BROOKE OBIE
AUG 29 2015, 10:45 PM ET
... at least one tie remains between the movements of the past and today—many protestors and movement leaders are Christians.
A far cry from the right-wing Coalition of African American Pastors that vowed civil disobedience in response to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the constitutionality of marriage equality in June, many Christians in the black liberation movement are informed by an understanding of Christ as a table-turning, women-empowering, government-overthrowing, freedom-loving, social justice radical.
Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, an ordained elder in the Church of God in Christ and a self-described "queer ally" would certainly count himself among that number. Rev. Sekou—who was just arrested in Ferguson after storming a police barricade with Cornel West and many others during protests for Brown—tells NBCBLK that his decision to fight for black liberation begins with Christ's example.
"God chose to become flesh in the body of an unwed, unimportant teenage mother in an unimportant part of the world. Then, after living a life dedicated to serving the least of these, He was killed by the State. That's how I understand Jesus" ...
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