Episcopal Church Pilgrimage to Ferguson's Holy Ground

The Episcopal Church is organizing a youth pilgrimage to Ferguson, which the Bishop of Missouri, Wayne Smith, describes as "holy ground."

The Saint

“A tourist merely passes through a place; a pilgrim comes to a place in a posture of vulnerability and then allows the place and its people in. No one intended it, but through the ravages of racism, past and current, St. Louis has become a place for pilgrims. There is holy ground here," stated Smith, referring to Ferguson, "And no one can stand on it and encounter its people without being changed.”

Lives Being Changed, by The Saint

Without being changed? Like the way a shopkeeper's life was changed when Michael Brown assaulted him before rushing a cop, punching him and then trying to grab his gun? Or the way people's lives were changed when their shops were looted by off-the-hook thugs?

The Saint's Friends Getting Some Change

There's nothing holy about Ferguson at all, it's an urban ghetto hell-hole, and trying to invent a phony race martyr out of a person like Michael Brown isn't going to fix anything. Except maybe salve your guilty, upper middle class, white privileged conscience. 

White Privilege

Bishop Wayne Smith, you and your fake pilgrimage to the fake shrine of the fake saint is risible at best. You are a mountebank and a fraud, like Al Sharpton and Lesley McSpadden.

The Frauds

Tickets to pilgrimage cost $500. Pilgrims get to visit the shrine of Michael Brown and take part in community organization and racism awareness workshops.

Pathetic.

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Civil Rights Hero, Lesley McSpadden

This is Michael Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden. She was invited to speak to a UN Committee Against Torture last year. After testifying, the UN panel recommended the immediate arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown, after Brown rushed him on the same day that he robbed a store.

Lesley McSpadden

Darren Wilson was acquitted, though he had to leave Ferguson PD. Lesley McSpadden is facing a felony armed robbery indictment. Why? Because this civil rights heroine decided to trash Pearlie Gordon's Michael Brown T Shirt stand, in the parking lot of a BBQ joint in Ferguson.

Civil Rights

Pearlie is the mother-in-law of Michael Brown's father, who is divorced from McSpadden, and she wasn't too pleased to see someone else making a bit of unauthorized tin on the Gentle Giant Franchise.

McSpadden, and her crew of 20 or 30 people, attacked the rival vendors. According to a police report, Gordon said that McSpadden approached her tent and told her she couldn't sell the merchandise. When Pearlie refused, McSpadden's mother, Desuria Harris, began pulling down t-shirts that were hanging on a line, and then other attackers started tearing apart her booth and beating the Brown memorabilia sellers.

Hero

Gordon claims that McSpadden repeatedly punched her in the head during the assault, which left one person hospitalized. Pearlie alleges that Brown's stepfather, ex-con, Louis Head, was also involved in the fighting.

Louis And Lesley, Cashing In

Reflect on this. Louis Head and Leslie McSpadden were invited to testify before the United Nations.

Michael Brown

Two policemen were shot, early today, during a demonstration against police brutality in Ferguson. Some say that Eric Holder and President Obama have blood on their hands.

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Martyr Saint Hero?

Holy civil rights martyr?

Victim of endemic racism?

Or just another ghetto thug who rushed a cop and got shot? And an excuse to loot and burn your neighborhood.

And then there's Al Sharpton.

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