As the President and General Secretary of the General Commission on Religion and Race, we join with other social, spiritual, and political leaders who have expressed their outrage and denounced the racist comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump in relation to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and some parts of Africa.
The comments themselves are willfully ignorant, hurtful, and unbecoming of any person who calls themselves a leader. The fact that the very nations criticized by the President have been subject to an insidious history of colonization, where their rich human, natural, and material resources have long been and even today continue to be exploited, stolen, and unethically controlled, only gives further evidence to the reality of ongoing systemic racism. For too long communities of color around the world have been simultaneously targeted for their gifts and contributions, yet at the same time they are stereotyped as having no gifts or contributions worthy of acknowledgment and embrace.
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