Communications Alert
UFCM NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS ALERT
National Office of Communications
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Archbishop Carl Bean, Founder of UFCM, Inc., makes powerful statement about the election of President-Elect Barack H. Obama
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE (389) YEARS FROM JAMESTOWN TO WASHINGTON, DC. THAT’S ONLY A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, IN DISTANCE AND IN HISTORY! BUT 389 YEARS OF FAITH, STRUGGLE, HOPE, DETERMINATION AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS A PEOPLE WHO REALLY HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE LOVE OF GOD THROUGH THIS JOURNEY.
THIS NIGHT, PROVIDENCE HAS SPOKEN AND THE HAND OF GOD HAS MOVED BEYOND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE IN SECRET AGAINST US. EVERYTHING DONE IS IN SECRET HAS BEEN PULLED INTO THE MARVELOUS LIGHT. THIS MOMENT THAT SCRIPTURE COMES TO LIGHT AND WE SEE THE HAND OF GOD HAS MOVED ACROSS THE LAND.
REV. DR. KING SAID THAT ‘I MAY NOT GET THERE WITH YOU BUT WE AS A PEOPLE WILL GET THERE.’ THIS IS WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. LET US NOT FORGET THE BACKS ON WHICH WE STAND, FROM THOSE FIRST BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO WERE SHACKLED AND FORCED ONTO THE SHORES OF JAMESTOWN. REMEMBER THAT. REMEMBER THAT DIGNITY AND THOSE THINGS THAT THEY PLACED IN US. LET US MOVE FROM THIS PLACE DOING MORE, STANDING UP MORE, TAKING BETTER CARE OF EACH OTHER MORE AND, MOST OF ALL, LET US STAND IN THE DIGNITY THAT THEY MUST HAVE HAD INSIDE OF THEMSELVES, AS THEY ON THAT SHORE IN JAMESTOWN, VA, WHERE THE FIRST SLAVES WERE TRADED SOME 159 MILES FROM THE PLACE WHERE OUR NEWEST PRESIDENT WILL LIVE AND LEAD.
WE, THE ONES, HAVE GOT TO REMEMBER GREAT GRANDMAS, AUNTIES, UNCLES, AND THAT THEY DID IT ALL WITH DIGNITY. IF EVER BEFORE, THIS IS THE TIME FOR US TO OWN THAT DIGNITY AND THAT FAITH AND LIVE WHAT THEY GAVE US AND LIVE IT PROUDLY AND VOCIFERIOUSLY AND REMEMBER THAT IT IS ALL FROM STANDING ON THEIR BACKS. WE WON’T MESS IT UP IF WE REMEMBER THEIR BACKS. WE MUST REMEMBER THEM AND REMEMBER THEM WELL.
WE MUST SURROUND HIM, PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, AND LIFT HIM UP AS HE ASCENDS TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS LAND. WE ESPECIALLY NEED TO KNOW THAT FROM THIS MOMENT ON IT WILL BE MADE TOUGH FOR HIM, OUR 44TH PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, AND WE MUST PROTECT HIM AND GIVE HIM WHAT HE NEEDS FROM US AS A PEOPLE.
The primary work of the UFCM is to proclaim the “SACREDNESS OF ALL LIFE,” thus focusing on empowering those who have been oppressed and made to feel shame. Through an emerging international network, the UFCM works to facilitate social change and improve the life chances for those who have been rejected by society’s institutions and systems. The scope of its work is inclusive and has significance for all people.
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Elder Kevin E. Taylor, Vice President
UFCM National Office of Communications
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