Reverend Rob Johnson: “Please Pray for Us”
Reverend Rob Johnson is Director of Partnerships with New Frontier Action Fund and No Justice No Peace. He is also Pastor at 2nd Baptist Church in Ft. Dodge, IA.
“The No Justice No Peace team (including Iowa State Director Al Womble, and William Sims) and I have visited close to 20 Cities in the State of Iowa registering voters and getting Black People to the polls to cast their votes.
I can’t tell you the feeling that comes over us when we are being followed out of town, or our location is being circled by white males in pick-up trucks, or being pulled up on and questioned as if we don’t have the right to be there. Or, when multiple whites pull over just to stare us down and try to intimidate us.
This thought from the newspaper keeps going through my head “They dared to register blacks to vote, and the KKK killed them”… That feeling in my gut when I yell to Al & Will to pack up because we are no longer safe is very real so again we say … Please Pray for Us!”