Milwaukee, WI - When a vandal sipped out the word "Black" from a "Black Lives Matter" sign at a Hartland church, it became the latest in a series of similar actions at Unitarian Universalist churches.
In Milwaukee and across the country, church signs showing support for the nationwide movement calling attention to what demonstrators say is racial inequality in the justice system.
The Rev. Amy Shaw said she believes Lake Country Unitarian Universalist Church's banner was slashed Sunday — the anniversary of the day Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
On Tuesday — for the second time in two weeks — someone cut out the word "Black" from a similar banner at a Unitarian church in Bethesda, Md. The word has also been recently painted over on multiple "Black Lives Matter" signs in Mount Pleasant, Wash.
In Milwaukee, First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee on N. Astor St. put up a "Black Lives Matter" banner of its own in February in response to police shootings of young African-Americans, the city's racial segregation and the disproportionate number of incarcerated and unemployed black men. It, too, was promptly vandalized.
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