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Elizabeth Warren’s Embrace of Black Lives Matter Is an Example of Moral Leadership

Elizabeth Warren’s Embrace of Black Lives Matter Is an Example of Moral Leadership

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Wednesday, September 30th 2015 at 9:36PM · 1082 views
Elizabeth Warren’s Embrace of Black Lives Matter Is an Example of Moral Leadership In her Sunday speech, which tackled economic injustice and violence against African Americans, she threw down a gauntlet for the current presidential contenders. By: Peniel E. Joseph Elizabeth Warren is not running for president. But based on the dazzling speech she recently delivered on racial and economic justice, she most definitely should. Sen. Warren (D-Mass.) furthered our national conversation about race with a bold speech linking racial equality, public policy, economic justice and American history. Warren’s #BlackLivesMatter speech Sunday at the Edward Kennedy Institute in Boston threw down a political and moral gauntlet, as she became the first politician of national stature to articulate a full-throated endorsement of the battle against structural and institutional racism that has become the cri de coeur of Black Lives Matter activists around the nation and the world.

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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, September 30th 2015 at 9:38PM

Warren did this through a deft combination of historical analysis and policy brief, noting, “Coming out of the Great Depression, America built a middle class, but systematic discrimination kept most African-American families from being part of it.”

Read more: http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2...

Jeni Fa Thursday, October 1st 2015 at 2:08PM

..."Fifty years after the civil rights era’s heyday, “violence against African Americans has not disappeared,” she said."...The civil rights movement only scratched the metaphorical surface of the tapestry of racism and white supremacy—in housing; real estate; public schools; business; federal, state and local governments; the criminal-justice system—that current generations of black activists find themselves battling.

Powerful indeed! Definitely the violence and discrimination hasn't changed and this mess starts early as in the school system. Parents that are to preoccupied to notice this find themselves crying over young lives lost to drugs, crimes, and the imprisoning of their children. We have to do more to help ourselves, though no matter the cost... this is the difference between us now and our ancestors.

Harry Watley Thursday, October 1st 2015 at 10:15PM

The White Sen. Elizabeth Warren is not our permanent solution. God did not raise-up this White woman to deliver Black Americans out of the hands of White America!
Sen. Warren is not one of us; Black Americans descendants of plantation slaves; direct and indirectly.

Black Americans as we are now must under go a complete mental-transformation in accordance with God’s plan that we become a sovereign people in a country of our own as I’ve always been describing.


Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 2nd 2015 at 9:52AM

Why would you think that anyone is thinking that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a permanent solution in the first place? you have no evidence to make that claim. This is not even a poor excuse to troll this subject with this view point.

What Sen. Elizabeth Warren did was something you have not done yet and that is too recognize the movement of young Black American's making a statement that your life matters and that Black life's matter as well. Get off your as Harry and join the movement.




Harry Watley Friday, October 2nd 2015 at 5:50PM

You asked me a very easy question! Why I would think that you would feel Sen. Mrs. Warren is our permanent solution is because you posted her positive feelings towards Black Lives Matters. She is the image in your mind.

You hate that I am our permanent solution. Only our first genuine prophet would be our only permanent solution. When a prophet has been anointed then you know God is in the mix. Since God is in the mix how can we Black Americans lose? We can’t because when God is for you who can be against you?

In conclusion, I am not looking for an argument because my mind is a terrible thing to waste! So, this will be my last comment!

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, October 3rd 2015 at 12:58PM

That is no answer to the question I asked you. Simply because I posted Sen, Warren on Black In America for acknowledging Black Lives Matter don't mean that she is our permeant solution to Black Americans today.

Please take your failed attempt to divert this dialog with your trolling one issue fauls thinking with you. Be gone with your weak dim lit policy of the Black American being a new race of people. We are YAH'S creations and we have been on this planet since YAH formed the first man. What you need to do is hear the words of YAH and keep his commandments, then and only then you will begin to understand who you are and who's you are, that will set you free from your madness.

Now, that you have been set on the path of enlightenment, go forth and work on yourself, then you can help your Brothers and Sisters. Now go forth and learn Who YAH is.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 4th 2015 at 12:03AM

Economic violence against the black community has increased both the income and wealth gaps between African Americans and whites, with blacks still unable to recover housing losses (including those engineered through racist “mud people” loans engineered by Wells Fargo) sustained during the 2008 recession.

These are powerful words and ring true.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, October 9th 2015 at 3:49PM

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today.

— Deuteronomy 15: 12–15

Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation.

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