Replace violence with love, and impatience with peace.
That was the message from the Rev. Kevan Franklin of United Trinity Church as the Wooster-Orville chapter of the NAACP held a rally Saturday in response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
It was a crisp 24 degrees when Oliver Warren, emcee and NAACP first vice president, began introducing the six featured speakers. Where do we go from here? asked NAACP President Juanita Greene. It s time for us to stand up and take responsibility, Greene said. We ve got to make sure our family, our friends and our neighbors take this seriously . . We all have complaints about America: Black people and people of color are not treated equally, women don t get the same pay as men. But we don t have a dictatorship, we have a democracy.