Posts from the ‘Leroy Barber’ Category
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Featured Videos, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“We are fighting for peace,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “There are more African American, Latino, Asian, Native folks who are for peace than there are who want to burn down things.”
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“Absolutely not,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “But I don’t think it’s as simple as ‘You broke the law: that’s the end of the conversation.’ It’s so much more complicated than that when you can get arrested simply for your skin color.”
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“My brother is a police officer,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. Leroy’s mistrust of the police isn’t about individuals, but about a broken a system. “It doesn’t appear that this system has been set up to walk alongside those who are poor or persons of color as much […]
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“I’d like to see us talking more about what it means to be a brother or sister in Christ,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “To be a community that loves another, has hard conversations with one another, supports one another, outside of our efforts to enhance the system […]
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“My experience as a black man in America leans me toward not trusting the police,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. Leroy’s deeply personal experience being profiled and harassed by police has made it difficult for him to trust law enforcement to be on his side. “Little stories like […]
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“What does that mean for us, when a case doesn’t go the way we think it should go?” asks Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. While we all hope for the best and desire a healthy, fair legal system, very few people would say they believe the outcome of every […]
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December 1st, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“In our country, we really lack the depth of relationship to be able to ask hard questions,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “We want to answer harder questions that people may not have the relationships to be able to ask.”
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September 11th, 2014 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“85% of [non-profit] boards are made up of white males,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “Meaning, that is the predominate culture making decisions for people of color, predominately, because about 52% of the missions and the work of non-profits are to communities of color.” Because of the lack […]
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September 11th, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
Many people find it difficult to believe that black people are truly treated differently by police; they are left wondering whether the boys who are pulled over or approached by police have made choices of dress, appearance, or behavior that arouse suspicion. “My son, who is a college student, who is big, who has many […]
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September 11th, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Justice & Ethics, Leroy Barber
“Profiling [occurs because] the officer has the right to pull over a car or a pedestrian because they pose a threat. And that threat can be posed – in the officer’s mind – simply based on the color of skin,” says Leroy Barber, Author and Global Executive Director of Word Made Flesh. “So, a black […]
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