\u201cYou have been happy to play into the hands of anarchists at home and ignore slavery abroad,\u201d the letter said, referring to Black Lives Matter. \u201cAs leaders in the church, we can abide neither.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe demand that you immediately sever all business ties with China and acknowledge the suffering of the Uighur people,\u201d the letter said. \u201cWe demand you end your support to the violent Black Lives Matter movement and any affiliated causes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel like it is morally inconsistent for Nike to say that they want to eradicate racism here in the U.S. and yet overseas you have slave worker factories still in existence,\u201d McCoy told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re asking Mr. Donahue to be responsible enough to realize every time his organization gives millions of dollars into a Marxist organization, the very thing that you say you\u2019re supporting you are not supporting, because you\u2019re helping feed a narrative that\u2019s keeping America divided,\u201d Shines said at the press conference.<\/p>\n
The letter also spoke to the violent riots associated with the Black Lives Matter political organization that are taking place across America:<\/p>\n
We the leaders of Conservative Clergy of Color have watched with sadness and frustration as the country we love has been torn apart by violence and looting. This civil terror, perpetrated and lead by the Black Lives Matter movement, has turned American against American and possibly set race relations back decades.<\/p>\n
Black Lives Matter, a movement run by anti-Christian, self-proclaimed Marxists, hijacked legitimate calls for police reform and turned it to their own ends. This is not a group interested in constructive change; through their vicious campaign to defund police and silence anyone who disagrees with them, they have destroyed livelihoods and gotten innocent children killed. It is antithetical to the nonviolence that Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement stood for.<\/p>\n
You and your company have helped fan the flames of this unrest by caving to support Black Lives Matter and promising financial support to their allies. You have given Black Lives Matter a platform, and as such, have contributed to the chaos that is tearing apart every major city in our country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When asked by Breitbart News about the Black Lives Matter claim that America is \u201csystemically racist,\u201d Shines said, \u201cIt is,\u201d but added why he believes that is the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has come \u2026 primarily, from one political party,\u201d Shines said. \u201cIt\u2019s the party that fought against the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the same party that gave us Jim Crow laws,\u201d Shines said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same party that gave us the KKK.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the same party, actually, that continues even to this day to separate Americans based on their ethnicity and\/or their gender. And that is the Democratic Party,\u201d Shines said.<\/p>\n
And now, the clergy said, Black Lives Matter and its supporters are threatening to take away Americans freedoms again.<\/p>\n
\u201cCancel culture is the issue,\u201d Reid told reporters. \u201cCancel culture and the eradication of our civil right of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd groups like Black Lives Matter use and wield cancel culture \u2014 and corporations are complacent,\u201d Reid said. [Americans] are ostracized and publicly put on notice if they don\u2019t agree with Black Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not American,\u201d Reid said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about absolute suppression of what has made America great in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time a company like Nike gives validity to a group like Black Lives Matter by funding it in the millions and millions of dollars, it creates a false media narrative that this group personifies the heartbeat of America,\u201d Shines said. \u201cIt does not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will fight tooth and nail to maintain that America is still the greatest place on this earth to live,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And all of the participants at the press conference agreed that, as Christians, all lives matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe support the term Black Lives Matter,\u201d Vega said. \u201cAs Christians that was settled on Calvary 2,000 years ago \u2014 that God values black, white, and every ethnicity in between \u2014 that their lives matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read original article: Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Founders Bishop Aubrey Shines, Rev. Marlin Reid, Rev. Derek McCoy, and Pastor Francisco Vega\u00a0spoke<\/a>\u00a0to reporters at a virtual press conference on Thursday to share the letter they delivered to Nike CEO John Donahoe, expressing the dangers to the American Democracy the corporation is participating in by \u201cfanning the flames of unrest.\u201d<\/p>\n