{"id":637,"date":"2018-03-30T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2018-03-24T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T19:33:58","slug":"our-just-got-tougher-we-need-to-fight-both-inequality-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/our-just-got-tougher-we-need-to-fight-both-inequality-and-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Our just got tougher &#8211; we need to fight both inequality AND racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"638\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/our-just-got-tougher-we-need-to-fight-both-inequality-and-racism\/people-844212_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/people-844212_640.jpg?fit=512%2C640\" data-orig-size=\"512,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"people-844212_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/people-844212_640.jpg?fit=512%2C640\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-638\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/people-844212_640.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/people-844212_640.jpg?resize=240%2C300 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/people-844212_640.jpg?w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Read this incredible article that was recently published in the New York Times:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/03\/19\/upshot\/race-class-white-and-black-men.html?mc=aud_dev&#038;mcid=fb-nytimes&#038;mccr=TAFIMarchMC12&#038;mcdt=2017-12&#038;subid=TAFIMarchMC12&#038;ad-keywords=AudDevGate<\/p>\n<p>Words cannot describe the pain that I felt after reading this.\u00a0 I was moved to tears by the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Our job just got tougher.\u00a0 Not only must we fight inequality &#8211; we must fight racism as it is so tied in to the plight of black men everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>*Sigh!*\u00a0 When you think about it, though, Jesus always fought for the oppressed.\u00a0 Why should I be surprised?\u00a0 Instead I should be thankful for the opportunity to fight alongside Him and champion the plight of black men in our country.<\/p>\n<p>Come join us in this fight!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this incredible article that was recently published in the New York Times: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/03\/19\/upshot\/race-class-white-and-black-men.html?mc=aud_dev&#038;mcid=fb-nytimes&#038;mccr=TAFIMarchMC12&#038;mcdt=2017-12&#038;subid=TAFIMarchMC12&#038;ad-keywords=AudDevGate Words cannot describe the pain that I felt after reading this.\u00a0 I was moved to tears by the Holy Spirit. Our job just got tougher.\u00a0 Not only must we fight inequality &#8211; we must fight racism as it is so tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-ah","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/people-844212_640.jpg?fit=512%2C640","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}