I am a hope-filled person of resurrection faith and while I will continue teaching the message of Love & Justice, I'm deeply grieved that Black people are denied experiencing the "unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" described in the Declaration of Independence. 

The truth is that Black people aren't recognized as "created equal", they are tolerated as human beings. Blackness has been (since 1619-slavery) and continues to be problematic in our nation - legally, socially and spiritually. 

Until the humanity of Black people becomes legalized, embraced and recognized in "all men are created equal" (in the image of God) vs. "the other" (3/5 human, dangerous, intellectually and spiritually inept) - Love and Justice ("God's will on earth as it is in heaven") continually will be rejected. 

Some say slavery is a mute issue in 2016, perhaps, but here is why I am grieved - because everyday I witness and experience that current generations and future generations have been/are being taught the same indifference toward and rejection (legally, socially and spiritually) of humans in Black skin. 

What is truly disconcerting is people of faith are the purveyors and doorkeepers of this exclusionist "Weltanschauung" (worldview) which rejects the inclusive God of humanity who not only loves, embraces and recognizes Christians, Jews and Muslims but all of creation. 

No where in the creation story does God identify ethnicity or race (an intentional divisive social construction) rather God looked over all God created and for the first time "God saw that it was "very good"!"