(ChurchLeaders) Racial profiling is not an exception, but is the norm for many in the black community. As protests have spread throughout the U.S. and across the world in response to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and many others, some black pastors and ministry leaders are sharing their experiences with being treated unequally.
“Never will people know what it’s like from the other side to be black or to be a person of color,” said Davoreon “Tiki” Broome, a black pastor from Mississippi, “but the best thing you can do is to sit and listen, to put your bias aside, to put politics aside, to put your agenda or what you want to accomplish aside and just listen.