Bishop urges blacks to show commitment to what's right
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Angela D. Chatman
Plain Dealer Reporter
African-Americans must espouse what is right even as they face challenges, one of the nation's top religious leaders said Saturday.
"Don't allow pressure to cloud your vision of what is right and what is wrong. Don't allow clutter to silence our voices," urged Bishop Vashti McKenzie, the first female bishop in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
She cited several concerns of the black community. These include failing public schools; the billions spent in Afghanistan and Iraq while this country is unable to find the money to rebuild neighborhoods, and the military's successful hunt for Saddam Hussein while authorities cannot find the source of the crack cocaine that is brought into urban neighborhoods.
"Who will speak up against evil and atrocities that are happening in this 21st century?" asked McKenzie, preaching to people at PowerNetworking 2004, FraserNet Inc.'s third annual business networking conference at the Cleveland Convention Center.
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