Subj : Re: Black Lives Really Matter To : Lee Lofaso From : Tim Richardson Date : Sun Jan 31 2016 11:20 am > Hello Everybody, > Talk about insulting. > Really insulting. > And to think a man of the cloth said it. > Or rather, wrote it. > On Facebook. > The medium of our times - > Franklin Graham > March 12, 2015 · > Listen up--Blacks, Whites, Latinos, and everybody else. Most > police shootings can be avoided. It comes down to respect for > authority and obedience. If a police officer tells you to stop, > you stop. If a police officer tells you to put your hands in > the air, you put your hands in the air. If a police officer > tells you to lay down face first with your hands behind your > back, you lay down face first with your hands behind your back. > It’s as simple as that. Even if you think the police officer > is wrong—YOU OBEY. Parents, teach your children to respect and > obey those in authority. Mr. President, this is a message our > nation needs to hear, and they need to hear it from you. Some > of the unnecessary shootings we have seen recently might have > been avoided. The Bible says to submit to your leaders and > those in authority “because they keep watch over you as those > who must give an account.” > Who the hell does Franklin Graham think he is? He seems to smarter than you give him credit for. And he's right! The place to argue the right or wrong of an encounter with a cop is not on the street trying to wrestle the cop's gun away from them, but in a court of law. > Just because > he is the son of Billy Graham does not give him the right to say > or write such filth. I wonder what the Good Lord would say to > those who treated others in the way Franklin Graham suggests? He'd probably give them a pat on the back for not resisting dully sworn authority, and simply obeying lawful commands from a police officer. > Black lives matter, Mr. Graham. Black lives really matter. As do all lives matter. Injecting racism into the nation at the rate Al Sharpton and Louis Farakhan do is in no way helping the situation. Race baiters are a dime a dozen. If many blacks' simply obeyed the law and respected authority, much of such encounters would never happen. > Anybody who told you, or tells you otherwise, is trying to deceive > you. Assuming he/she has not already done so. That's absolute nonsense! --- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32 * Origin: Telnet://valhalla.synchro.net - Richmond, Virginia (1:275/93) .