Not exact matches
But for some black
racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily
embraced.
They
embrace racial and economic
justice and creation care; they affirm the full dignity and equality of women; they take for granted that faithful Christians must
embrace evangelism and social action; and they hold to a biblical sexual ethic while vigorously opposing mistreatment of LGBT people and defending their appropriate civil rights.
For Dr. King,
racial justice was intrinsically coupled with economic
justice — and today's activists and allies do not merely acknowledge that intimate connectedness, but demand its
embrace.