Black Lives Matter? It’s A Spiritual Matter! - a podcast by Body of Christ

Black Lives Matter!  White Lives Matter!  Blue Lives Matter!  All Lives Matter!  All are slogans meant to express the feelings surrounding the loss of life due to violence, especially when law enforcement is involved. Over years and decades, unjustified killing of blacks by police has inflamed the black community across the United States.  Invariably, on the heels of these “incidents” blacks initially engage in peaceful protest seeking solutions.  Marching in hopes that solutions will appear in similar fashion to those remedies that seemed to be born of the Civil Rights marches in the Sixties.  It hasn’t worked. 

All too often these marches turn violent.  Then rioting, looting, burning and violence prevail.  And when the dust settles the law officer or officers involved in the killing walk free.  Why?

Why hasn’t the marches and complaining worked?  Why are some law enforcement officials apparently scared to DEATH of black men and kill them?  Why do other law enforcement officials seem to be able to commit murder with impunity?  Why, why and why?

Black folk feel angry, sad, hurt and helpless.  The protests, marches and outpouring of grief in social media attest to the desire of black folk to eliminate these atrocities from ever occurring again.  The trouble is it’s all been done before.  And… It hasn’t worked.

What will work?  What will best ensure that not only black men will cease to die at the hands of police, but at the hands of other blacks? 

The bible offers answers to many of the challenges in life.  Can it possibly offer an approach to take to heal this decades long festering wound on our society?

 

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