Did a white cop hunt down and execute
a black teenager? Was it an
execution? Planned or spur of the
moment, did Officer Wilson decide that the color of an 18 year old was reason
enough to kill him? Many in the
community think so. And they believe the
prosecutor colluded with the police to make sure he faced no charges for his
actions. They responded with riots.
What are to do? How do we sort out right from wrong, innocent
from guilty? How do we allow the
‘system’ to do its work when it is believed that the system protects the
guilty? How do we respond to a community
so despondent, up to its neck in racial and economic inequality, a powder keg
of angry response, when the fuse has been lit and the detonation has occurred?
Do we take days and weeks to sift
through all the public data to arrive at our own conclusion? Do we take sides? Do we trust the Holy Spirit to give us
special insight into the circumstances of the shooting?
Instead of entering into a polarized situation
on one side or the other, shall we instead come alongside the person in pain
and seek to help bring healing, seek to help bring understanding, seek to help
repair the brokenness? Can we work
through our own grief and anger so that, in turn, we may help another to do the
same? Let us be there until they can
think again. Then shall we talk?
Lord, in our grief and anger, may you
hold us so very tight to you. Amen.
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