Protest, Aggression, and Self-Defense |
From his pulpit, Bishop Patrick Wooden recently weighed in on the now notorious disruption of a church service in Minnesota by anti-ICE agitators and Don Lemon.
While delivering a sermon to his congregants, Bishop Wooden cautioned activists generally and Lemon specifically against attempting to violate the inviolate character of worship at his church.
The cleric made it clear in no uncertain terms that the authorities are the last people about whom Lemon and his fellow partisans would have to worry. Rather, it is Wooden and his congregants who should inspire fear, for the kinds of tactics endorsed by Lemon and on display in that Minnesota church would be met with a response that would not bode well for the latter.
Given the racially-charged dynamic of the attacks against ICE, as well as the attack against the predominantly white congregants of the church in Minnesota, it is worth noting that both Bishop Wooden and his flock happen to be black.
While some have criticized Wooden for explicitly advocating violence in the cause of protecting his church from those who would assail it, he received overwhelming support from the hundreds of people who enthusiastically commented on the YouTube video of his sermon.
“Protest” is a term that tends to have positive connotations in the American........