Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
BUM-RUSH INJUSTICES, PLEASE!
BUM-RUSH INJUSTICES, PLEASE!
There is little value in our merely protesting against racial injustice using logic and sentiment, as it did not arise by just logic or sentiment .
Injustice arose by means of various forms of power, and it is maintained and sustained by various forms of power. Power's varieties must be used to convert injustice to justice. It must be done by everyone that has been or may be affected by it.
The reward-retribution dichotomy is a power matrix whose varieties might be profitably employed by us to combat and to rectify injustices, since a reward-retribution power-matrix was used to institute them originally, perennially, historically .
Racism is a form of citizen-based injustice. Its exercise is rewarded; its non-exercise, reviled, punished.
A counter-reward retribution matrix must be used by other citizens with the same zeal used by the unjust.
No one can afford to wait for some other one to deliver them from the pangs/ pains of systemic injustice.
Each must "work out its own salvation, with fear and trembling." The Bible declares that there is no need, reason for you to wait for any local, state, federal, government to help you, or me, to end all injustice!
Neither can any nor all: civil rights organizations, politicians, banks, preachers, teachers, lawyers, schools, police, churches, militia, charities, nor anybody, alone, end injustice . Each inherited injustice whole! Each one is a beneficiary of its maliciousness, its invidiousness!
Everyone, every day, affected by injustice , whether child or elder, of any hue, of any class, must resist all injustice wherever it is found, by any means available and expedient!
Bum-rush our nation's execrable and too-long-lingering injustices, somehow, somewhere, everybody, please! pretty please, every day!