Featured George Floyd Not a Christian?

I've reported this post. If this was just a stand-alone post and your first time to slander black people and put the entire burden of society's failures on them - I would have just ignored it

The Bible says "ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

The Bible says "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked - who can know it" [That's ALL hearts]

I'm telling you that the heart of the problem in our nation is the sinful condition of the heart of ALL people as the Bible teaches.

 

I disagree a little.

The eulogy began strictly political (telling President Trump, although not using his name, that he could not use George Floyd as a prop while the DNC and BLM is using Mr. Floyd as a prop. That was wrong of Mr. Sharpton.

He was right, however, that we cannot (or should not) use Bibles as a prop and for pandering (this has been done, I believe, with both political parties). Up to this point, four minutes into the speech Mr. Sharpton has been directly political. And Mr. Sharpton keeps a political theme against President Trump even to the 17:12 marker - nothing to do with Mr. Floyd, just a political speech advocating much needed change. Even almost 20 minutes into the speech Mr. Sharpton is still talking politics (praising President Obama and condemning changes made by the Trump administration).

And twenty minutes in he shifts stronger to race. Mr. Floyd's death was not, as we can tell by the facts, related to his race. It was murder and police brutality.

In fact, the entire eulogy is unrelated to Mr. Floyd himself. It is related to using Mr. Floyd as a prop for reform. I am not saying this reform is not needed, but Mr. Floyd is probably not the best mascot for the cause.

That is why I disagree. A man was murdered. Both sides are using that man as a tool for their agenda rather than looking honestly at the situation and fighting for legitimate and sustainable change.

 

Jon, I only edited your post for the sake of shortness.
For the most part I do agree with you.
However, we should consider two things.
1) until - a conviction is decided by a jury - it is only an alleged murder.
2) and an important fact has been forgotten - Mr. Floyd could have avoided the situation by not allegedly passing that fake $20 bill.
But since he as now passed - he can never be convicted of that allege crime. Is it possible that he did not know it was fake - of course.
Is it possible -he knew it was fake? - YES. Now with his rap sheets of at least two States - and his physical size, and his resisting arrest,
does not give Mr. Floyd much credibility. Is the Police officer guilty of murder - YES, he could be - but at what point - Everyone talks about
the 8 minutes and some seconds - but at what point did it become excessive.?
Is it too much to wait on the trial - and accept the facts.
IF the officer is found guilty of murder or manslaughter - then yes he should serve time.

 

Just because a person mentions race - DOES NOT mean he is racist.

Suppose a person robs me of my wallet. When I talk to the police and they ask me to ID the individual.
So I say - Well, HE was about 5'6", was BALD, walked with a LIMP, wearing OLD and SMELLY CLOTHES,
and he carried a bag that said US ARMY. And he was BLACK.

Does this mean I hate males, short people, those who are bald, and handicap as well as Veterans and poor people.
NO - those things I mentioned are simply for identification. But when it comes to race - many want to assume racism.