[DustyMoment]

"I am hurt. I am sad. I am shocked, but I shouldn't be," preached the Rev. Valarie Houston of Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Sanford's historic Goldsboro area.

Several times during her impassioned Sunday-morning sermon about George Zimmerman's acquittal, Houston's words brought church members to their feet.

"We are African-Americans. We are people. We are allowed to go the store and buy Arizona Ice Tea and a package of Skittles and go home," she said, recalling Trayvon Martin's trip to a convenience store that ended in his death.

"Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity," Houston said.

Gee, I can remember a time when people went to church to hear God's words of love, kindness and foregiveness!

[IbJensen]

mmm mmm mmm Arizona Iced Tea and a packet of Skittles. I’ve heard people say this combination was to die for.