Dear Colleagues:
I would like to invite you to a lunch with Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin on Feb. 8th at noon to be held at Faith Congregational Church, 2030 Main Street in Hartford.
This meeting has been arranged by the Rev. Steve Camp, pastor of Faith and I am grateful that he has made this engagement possible. Mayor Bronin is interested in hearing from clergy about the needs of the greater Hartford area as well as to discuss some of the challenges he is facing in leading the city at this time
The words above indicate something is brewing in the City of Hartford and it smells like old rotten fish heads resting on sidewalks in June. A perusal of the words above must take into account several things, 1.) white supremacy is seeking to disrupt any chance of popular dissent by the unwashed masses, 2.) only certain selected leaders that white folks feel comfortable with were invited to the meeting above, 3.) the clergy in Hartford is ineffective... weak... and more worried about gaining favor from white folk than seeking egalitarian rights for the oppressed.
We most also note that clergy activists that have been involved in social activism for the last 2-3 years in Hartford, and were not invited to this shindig. This writer specifically means religious leaders Pam Selders and her husband Bishop John Selders, founders of Moral Monday CT. These two pillars of social justice have led marches, street demonstrations, visited offices of CT Governor Danell Malloy asking for justice, and both Pam and John were arrested for their beliefs. Now let me juxtapose the Selders work of direct action with the non action of moribund clergy summoned to the above mentioned meeting Feb. 8, 2017. When rallies were held by MMCT, clergy in many instances vanished like Casper the Ghost. In particular Negro clergy did not weigh in on issues affecting people of color. Yet now that ol' Cap'n Boss done summoned the house Negroes to a meeting, it is seen as advantageous to these buck dancing Negro clergy to show up ... grinning in front of Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin like Sammy Sunshine in those old Little Rascals comedy series.
For years the white supremacist machinery in Hartford has used meetings with selected clergy to consolidate a hold on the city's political machinery, power, finances, and thinking of the majority population consisting of blacks and people of color. These same religious leaders coming to this meeting in Feb. seem to have no shame whatsoever in opening churches for whites to hold meetings, that are only good for taking pictures of grinning Negro preaches et al. What is really disturbing to this writer is the unmitigated gall and temerity of black clergy who are comfortable with embracing the white power structure. Well. Maybe it is time to gather people together and protest outside or inside the churches of black clergy in particular who placate the Mayor Bronin in their houses of worship. What the hell, activists have a moral obligation to confront injustice wherever it manifests itself and also to denounce traitors of the unwashed masses. Just perhaps members of the true vanguard will turn up [ protest ] inside of the church of this meeting Feb. 8th and make their voices heard.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.- Erasmus Darwin
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