“If you’re not working for justice, stop calling for peace.”
—Bernice A. King
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If you’re feeling upended by the chaos of this several days, I get it. And I’m not surprised to have read countless calls for peace and prayers for unity.
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I’m all for peace and unity. That’s part of the end goal. BUT-
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Working towards peace is NOT the same as going back to how things were a week ago, a year ago, five years ago, or decades ago. For people of color, especially our black neighbors, there has never been peace.
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So please, keep praying for peace, because I believe that when those prayers are said sincerely, they’re met with a call to justice. And that will mean listening, learning, speaking up, voting, advocating, donating, and creating new systems.
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And make room for righteous anger. If God did not want us to ever get angry, he wouldn’t have put anger in our emotional toolbox. Anger is our God-given indicator that our sense of justice has been violated. And in our country, from the very beginning, racial justice has been very much violated.
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