The Rev. Dennis Blackwell is weary of the news reports of people being shot, many times Black people.
“Every morning, I turn the television on,” said Blackwell, a United Methodist pastor at Asbury Community Church in Woodlynne, New Jersey. “There are people who've been killed by stray bullets, young people on the way to school being shot down, people in a restaurant eating being shot.
“But no one in the faith community seems to be doing anything about it collectively.”
Blackwell, a member of the United Methodist Judicial Council, said he recognizes that violence can be born out of poverty, unemployment and the lack of social resources.
“Systemic and systematic racism, white supremacy, are the major issues that produce this,” he said. “That's a long-term fight.”
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