Quote of the Week January 16, 2009
Posted by Adrien in quotes.Tags: Oscar Grant, Proposition 8
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The Reverend Al Sharpton brings it home for California:
“There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end brutality and poverty, but to break into people’s bedrooms and claim that God sent you,” Sharpton told a full house on Sunday.
“It amazes me,” he said, “when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being [relegated] into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners.”
via Femenisting (via Harriet’s Daughter (via Pam’s House Blend))
it amazes me too.
(good quote of the week!)