The Smoke
A trans-gendered woman from Minneapolis by the name of Iyanna Dior was beaten during a mob recently. Someone captured a one minute video of the incident. All you could see are (sorry to say) black individuals taking turns at swinging and kicking at this individual. The reason why I included the detail of their race is because during this time of protest and unrest, we're saying #BlackLivesMatter, but we're doing this to our own black lives. The contradictory frustrates me, but not enough to kill my spirit. You would think we only have to fight one battle at a time, but bullets are coming in all directions. Every community is nearly being attached, whether it's the black community, that of the LGBTQ, and even our white allies who are striving to understand our struggles. I was talking to my brother the other day and he reminded me the lack of relationships creates barriers between us constructed by our own biases. Why must we entertain the separation?
We must stop threatening the human race because it's one category in which we all fit. If you stand in a room filled with men and women of all classes, you can ask a few questions that could be answered from all sides. Most , if not everyone, would have a child who is growing into an adult and needs guidance. They all would know how it feels to be angry, heartbroken, tired, and eager for happiness. Sounds simple...because it is when everyone has the same agenda, but based on reality, it doesn't appear that way. When you turn on your television or open your apps, you see black men dying at the hands of white men. What the news doesn't show is black men being killed...by black men. Why is that? Cancer from the inside can be more deadly than something affecting just the surface. I'm not blaming my culture for our ultimate downfall, but I am saying that at some degree, we're apart of the issue, just not now. That should be for another time, but here we are, beating a trans-gendered woman for no apparent reason...via the hands of 30 people. Where's the justice in that?
"Ball of confusion /that's what the world is today" is a famous line from one of The Temptations' hits. This is the best way I can describe it. I have my own take on what's going on, but I'm trying not to speak from my emotions because they literally go with the wind. My overall question is for those who aren't taken this seriously (black and white, in this case): what are you fighting for? What matters the most to you, life...or just your own? I see Jesus' name mentioned a lot these days because Jesus fought not just for everyone, but those who sought after Him. Jesus paid attention to those intentional with change, even the thief that hung next to him before he gave up the ghost (Luke 23:39-43). How can we fight a cause if we're adding to the cause from a different angle? When it comes to "burning", we may not be lighting the match, but some of us are adding the gasoline.
If you are tired of hearing about #BlackLivesMatter, #TransLivesMatter and everything else, stop creating a reason for it to exist. No, we're not excluding everyone else, but simply saying these lives matter...too, because based off what we're seeing, they don't. Again, we have so many battles, so many people fighting, bruised, bleeding, and dying because many of us are choosing to downplay the general concept of a human being. If you're tired of this America, let's make it better. Everything was perfect before the first sin. It got so bad, God removed His presence from this earth. The fullness of it will never be experienced until the absence of sin. Racism and bigotry are symptoms of this much bigger war. As we protest and confront legislation, lets continue to fight this spiritual tyrant with spiritual weapons. Let us think, pray, and act upon our urges to better the world in which we are bringing up our kids, the next generation. It'll suck to leave them scraps from what we couldn't salvage because we simply chose not to so.
We must stop threatening the human race because it's one category in which we all fit. If you stand in a room filled with men and women of all classes, you can ask a few questions that could be answered from all sides. Most , if not everyone, would have a child who is growing into an adult and needs guidance. They all would know how it feels to be angry, heartbroken, tired, and eager for happiness. Sounds simple...because it is when everyone has the same agenda, but based on reality, it doesn't appear that way. When you turn on your television or open your apps, you see black men dying at the hands of white men. What the news doesn't show is black men being killed...by black men. Why is that? Cancer from the inside can be more deadly than something affecting just the surface. I'm not blaming my culture for our ultimate downfall, but I am saying that at some degree, we're apart of the issue, just not now. That should be for another time, but here we are, beating a trans-gendered woman for no apparent reason...via the hands of 30 people. Where's the justice in that?
"Ball of confusion /that's what the world is today" is a famous line from one of The Temptations' hits. This is the best way I can describe it. I have my own take on what's going on, but I'm trying not to speak from my emotions because they literally go with the wind. My overall question is for those who aren't taken this seriously (black and white, in this case): what are you fighting for? What matters the most to you, life...or just your own? I see Jesus' name mentioned a lot these days because Jesus fought not just for everyone, but those who sought after Him. Jesus paid attention to those intentional with change, even the thief that hung next to him before he gave up the ghost (Luke 23:39-43). How can we fight a cause if we're adding to the cause from a different angle? When it comes to "burning", we may not be lighting the match, but some of us are adding the gasoline.
If you are tired of hearing about #BlackLivesMatter, #TransLivesMatter and everything else, stop creating a reason for it to exist. No, we're not excluding everyone else, but simply saying these lives matter...too, because based off what we're seeing, they don't. Again, we have so many battles, so many people fighting, bruised, bleeding, and dying because many of us are choosing to downplay the general concept of a human being. If you're tired of this America, let's make it better. Everything was perfect before the first sin. It got so bad, God removed His presence from this earth. The fullness of it will never be experienced until the absence of sin. Racism and bigotry are symptoms of this much bigger war. As we protest and confront legislation, lets continue to fight this spiritual tyrant with spiritual weapons. Let us think, pray, and act upon our urges to better the world in which we are bringing up our kids, the next generation. It'll suck to leave them scraps from what we couldn't salvage because we simply chose not to so.
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