A CALL FOR MORAL AND COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP

An Open Letter from the Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the United States Congress To the sitting and incoming members of the House of Representatives and the Senate: There is no honor in holding office while failing to fulfill its duties. When the people you have sworn to serve are being harmed, your silence is betrayal. You were not elected to protect the powerful from accountability. You were elected to protect the people from the abuse of power. We write as bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church—a church born of resistance to racial exclusion and sustained by the conviction that no human being was created to live beneath another’s heel. We speak from the experience of Black America: the labor of Black women too often taken for granted; the dignity of Black men too often denied; the hopes of Black children too often deferred.

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