“My brother, why do these white pastors see me as less than a man? . . . . I'm so tired of being humanized as their ‘black friend’ only when it suits their agenda?” He said to me.

“Where the scriptures speak, we speak. Where the scriptures are silent, we are silent.” This is one of the bedrock principles of our movement, and also the greatest crutch we lean upon for abdicating our moral responsibility to speak the truth in love, to see ‘thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’