Selah

Diversity training won’t fix this.  Carefully crafted apologies are absurd.  Protests and candle light vigils miss the point and the greater need.  I don’t want to hold hands and sing of what will be.  I don’t want to reenact it, create a choreography that walks in his footsteps. And justice is not the word.  I’ll […]

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Michelle Alexander talks about the future of race

Lawyer and advocate, Michelle Alexander talks about her concern for criminals and the prison system at a Tedx talk in Columbus.  She argues that the criminal justice system functions like “a system of social control (“race control”) instead of crime control.”  She argues that these prisons serve to create casts and manage “caste control.”  And she […]

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When the law is not on your side

While I support the law and its enforcement, I do not believe that police officers are above it.  This video of Mr. Levar Jones being shot in the hip by South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert is beyond disturbing and something deeper is troubling me.  It keeps happening. Sure, there are those who will say that it […]

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Police brutality and the unjust judge

“Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city, there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.  In that city, there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my […]

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