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| Night Time in My Home Town |
I am TheHealthReverend. It is my duty, my calling, my obligation, to speak out when the health is threatened, compromised, at-risk in any way. It is my further obligation to always trouble the comforted amongst us, to let us know that NO ONE is safe/healthy until we all are! To that end, I am speaking on a coupla topics that cause me great heartache, but indeed, I speak!
Wow. Just today on my blogtalkradio show, I
discussed the killing of small girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama. What I
best recall about that day is how I wondered, in complete bewilderment, i) why
someone would BOMB A CHURCH, ii) why grown white men would hurt little girls
like me and iii) why, in the name of Jesus, didn’t anyone care? No one was
embarrassed. No authorities stepped up. No one was punished.
Then I wondered why white people
hated us so much. I never was one for asking, so I just wondered. I wondered
why white christians, preachers, teachers, even parents, didn’t seem to care
about us. It’s just too much to think, that all these same people are staying
home, locking doors and loading weapons.
I wonder why it is that every American and
every Christian must be better than someone and has the absolute right to hate
someone. And never feel bad about it. I heard a white woman, sitting behind me
on a plane, say ‘I hate southerners’. She said it more than once and with great
emphasis. I approached her as we were de-planing. She was kind, she said, ‘I
don’t hate you.’ Should I have felt good? Relieved? Special? Her husband is a
minister and she is a Christian but she felt no shame at her statement. Imagine
that.
I’d be willing to bet that she owns
at least one weapon.
I am a certified law enforcement
officer, trained and qualified in the use of handguns and shotguns. The
instruction is ‘never shoot until you are sure of your target and what’s behind
it’ and ‘look through the sights; not at the target.’ I must wonder if all
those Texans have had adequate training? I wonder how they carry their weapons
so that they can make a quick and accurate draw.
Even more importantly, I still
wonder if any of them are embarrassed afterwards? Or just dog-gone made, cause
they missed! Wow. It’s a scary situation, a very bad, very scary
situation.
I refuse to wonder what it will be
like in another 20 years after every able-bodied racist is able to kill
whomever they like. They will soon outstrip the big-city police officers.
The late, great Dr. Howard Thurman stated
that patriotism is a good excuse for national hatred. The time of true national
hatred must be at hand, and it’s full, active, often, expression.
Heaven, Help Us All!
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