By Errol Louis
Not that she needed any more bad news, but it looks like Hillary Clinton
has a problem with a segment of black voters who could sink her
campaign in the final week before Election Day.
On Monday, a group of ministers and theologians affiliated with the
Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an evangelical Christian denomination
with more than 6 million members, marched to Clinton’s Brooklyn
headquarters to drop off a sternly worded “Open Letter to Hillary
Clinton Regarding Religious Freedom for Black America.”
I know and respect many of the people who signed the letter and
organized the effort, including the leader of Monday’s action,
Jacqueline Rivers of Boston, and Bishop Charles Blake of Los Angeles,
the presiding leader of COGIC. They are morally earnest, thoughtful and
socially conservative leaders of a movement whose members collectively
staff countless storefront churches, soup kitchens, homeless shelters
and other institutions aimed at the rescue and redemption of the poor.
They are a world away from the popular caricature of black ministers as
hustlers who spend more time on scheming than salvation. These are folk
who aren’t looking for money, favors, fame or photo ops.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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