Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.- Matthew 2
I remember reading this when I was younger and thinking about the horrible injustice of murdering all of those children. I sometimes think about the government that is capable of such things. How did the people sit back and just let their kids be slaughtered by the government? How did they let that kind of evil stand?
So about two days ago at the time of writing this, there was a man named George Floyd that was murdered by police. The guy was arrested for writing fraudulent checks, but that by no means excuses nor justifies the police response of having him in cuffs and face down, placing their knee on his throat as Floyd begged for his life because he couldn't breath. This was murder. There is no excuse for that, full stop.
In response to that, I've seen bunch of responses on Social media. I've seen believers advocate that it was all racism that lead to the murder of Floyd while dismissing any other facts or statistics to be a racial smokescreen to excuse the police that murdered him. That breaks my heart, two fold.
I don't think that citing the statistics that show a demographic disproportionately commits more crimes justifies police murdering anyone and I think that the framing it that way doesn't help the problem. Where people of any race should be unified against arbitrary laws and an increasingly hostile police state that has abandoned justice, instead it becomes a racial divider with implications that any one race is to blame. What happened to Eric Garner was murder. What happened to Tamir Rice was murder. What happened to Duncan Kemp was murder.
Was Garners life more or less valuable than Kemps? No. Bother were american citizens whose lives were revoked by a totalitarian system that is increasingly hostile to citizenry. What should be a unifying cry against that oppressive body of government, of all races, gets lost in the crowds.
Have people asked why? Have they asked themselves why we're not unified?
Some would simply conclude that the answer is racism, and they'd be right to a degree but not to the degree in which they might expect.
Garner, Floyd and Rice were black and Kemp was not. Did masses riot in the streets over Kemp? Did the people that push the racial framework for government killings not care about Kemp because he didn't advance the racial narrative? Is racism in America a problem? Absolutely.
I lived in new Mexico where I was a fat white kid getting beat up every other day. I lived on the racial divide in Michigan where I was mugged and running through the neighborhood begging for help because I was chased by a hoard, all the while people laughed. In. My. Face. As I ran for my life lungs on fire, burning. I know what racism is. My opinions are credentialed. The city of Grand Rapids wasn't at fault, the neighborhood wasn't at fault, blacks or Mexicans weren't to blame, but those that perpetuate the evil are responsible. Those that wronged me. To stir up my situation as a white cause would perpetuate hate and wrongfully stigmatize the races of which my aggressors belong. Be angry, be righteous in your anger. Do not be unjust in your anger.
You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice - Exo 23
In order to have more support when true injustice like this happens it shouldn't be framed as a racial issue but instead put in the right context, an increasingly violent and authoritarian government is murdering people that do not deserve death. That important distinction unites citizens of all races against the true enemy, instead of further perpetuating the racial divide by blacks blaming whites and whites responding to blacks. The answer to injustice is not more injustice. And people shouldn't burn down autozone, they didn't do anything either. Justice, the real justice, says we are equal in the eyes of the law. Its blindfolded. Racial prejudice is disgusting and wrong regardless if it is white one black, black on white, native, green purple or blue.
‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly. - Lev. 19:15
Also, if you want to help the cause, truely... differentiate between the righteous and the unrighteous. Eric Garner and Tamir Rice were murdered, flat out, no two ways about it... Michael brown was not. They're not the same and shouldn't be treated as such. Their are agents within the partisan black lives matter group that seize every instance to push the narrative, and this is disadvantageous to real reform, it poisons the truth. hands up don't shoot was a lie and these false "leaders" seized upon to not let a good crisis go to waste. The murder of Garner, Floyd, Rice, they're cheapened and diminished when put in the same context of convenience store robber Michael Brown that was shot going for a cops gun. These are not the same. Cops that murder people are guilty. Cops that help other Cops murder people are accessories to murder and should be arrested and tried as such. This does not mean that all Cops are bad. I've worked with law enforcement officials that have gone so far out of their way in justified shooting situations because they value human life.
My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. 2 For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, 3 and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,” 4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?- James 2We as people; as Citizens, if we are ever to gain ground on the reform and resolution on the issue, We must come together on this. God set the example of one standard of Law regardless of Race, and that was Righteous. That Law is for everyone, to come weather Jew or Gentile regardless, the call was to not show partiality or mob rule or a fraternal order of police deathsquad with a license to kill. It was an open invitation to everyone to unite as one Race, The Hebrew Race.
The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.”Exodus 12:49
