Sunday, February 12, 2006

Alabama Church Fires - Here is My Solution

Once again, another rural Alabama Church is set on fire. Although some have attempted to make a racial connection between the fires, not all churches have been Black Churches. One definite simularity in these fires is that all these fires are attacks on the people of God. The article, Alabama communities feel a searing loss, states the following:
Frank Wilson, a Rehobeth deacon, said congregants stand ready to protect each other because a lone deputy sometimes must cover the more than 600 square miles of Bibb County, where five churches (including Rehobeth and Ashby) were burned Feb. 3.

"If a single woman hears a noise outside her house, it could take him 45 minutes to get there," said Wilson, who also serves with the volunteer fire department. "We tell her, 'Don't call the sheriff. Call a church member.'"
For a possible solution, lets look back to the year 1964, and the Deacons for Defense and Justice. According to Wikipedia...
The Deacons were African Americans and most of them were war veterans with combat experience from the Korean War and World War II. In some cases, they had a symbiotic relationship with other civil rights groups that advocated and practiced non-violence: the willingness of the Deacons to provide low-key armed guards facilitated the ability of groups such as the NAACP and CORE to stay, at least formally, within their own parameters of non-violence.

Amin Sharif says, "The Deacons -- Black men -- had armed themselves against the terror of white racism." If standing up to terror worked in the 1960's, it can work again today. Where are some good Deacons when you need them?

Additional information:
The Deacons for Defense, by Larry Pratt

# posted by Eric : 9:15 AM
Comments:
It's expected that the media and civil right hustlers would try to make the church arsons a "racial" aka hate crime. Did it ever occur to them that maybe just maybe the arsonist might have something against god and religion? I don't think race ever plays apart when a person steal or hold up a church. This could be racial motivated, but I will reserve judgement until the person is caught. To bad the media and the shakedown artist can't do the same. I still think its just a wacko who doesn't like god.
# posted by Blogger Alpha Conservative Male : Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:29:00 PM
 
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