Southern Baptist leader tells Washington Post that George Zimmerman was wrong and engaged in "vigilante justice." WAPOST: How do you feel about the verdict? DR. MOORE: "Regardless of what Trayvon Martin was doing or not doing that night, you have someone who was taking upon himself some sort of vigilante justice, even by getting out of the car. Regardless of what the legal verdict was, this was wrong. And when you add this to the larger context of racial profiling and a legal system that does seem to have systemic injustices as it relates to African Americans with arrests and sentencing, I think that makes for a huge crisis. ... I think many people assume our racial tensions are in the past because we have a Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, an African American president, but these sorts of situations demonstrate the raw reality that that’s not the case." washingtonpost/local/an-interview-with-russell-moore-of-the-southern-baptist-convention/2013/07/18/40957c32-ef2a-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 22:34:43 +0000
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