CM Mealy questions OPHC on Christian and African American clergy hate crimes
CM Darlene Mealy asks whether Christians and African American clergy experience hate crimes, noting bishops face harassment on social media. Ramjatin responds about the 67th Precinct Clergy Council (God Squad) as a PATH partner and describes the Interfaith Council on Words and Symbols of Peace and Hate.
Yes.
Thank you.
I'm glad that we have the...
this committee because so many things are going on right now.
But what is very alarming to me, could you explain, do you think Christians do not get harassed?
faith-based Christians.
Because we have bishops that say they anti this, anti that, and on Facebook they get harassed.
And I haven't heard anything about African American Christians dealing with hate crime also.
Could anyone explain that to me?
Where do the African American clergy fit into this hate crime?
Because Catholics get
So I hear everything else.
I just want to make sure that we're putting that faith base in this scenario.
And strong.
Don't everybody answer at one time.
Sure, I can.
And I would like to, if you could please give to the council members one of these books, I'd appreciate this.
This has a report that has a very deep description of all our programmings and our partners that we work with.
One of the partners that we work with is specifically the 67th Presbyterian Theology Council that is based in Brooklyn, New York.
And they work with the clergy specifically and a lot of programs in Brooklyn where they amplify programmings in the...
communities and with faith-based partnerships as well.
Our office also has what's called the Interfaith Council on Words and Symbols of Peace and Hate, where we have diverse faith leaders in that space where we work with them specifically to provide programming and we give seed grants to these.
Anyone who comes to us and say, hey, we're experiencing bias, discrimination in our church, in our faith, and we give them programming funding to do that, those in the communities.