Unless you’ve
been living under a rock, most people living in the U.S. are aware of the
protesting and extreme violence taking place in Ferguson, MO which has been
plastered across every city newspaper and television screen across the 50
states.
As I try to
separate fact from fiction regarding what the media is recycling about the
street execution of an unarmed, 18 year old Michael Brown and despite the
reports from the Ferguson Police Department, what continues to puzzle me is the
destruction of property within the community.
Mark 3:27 states
“In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house with out first tying him
up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s
house.”
I personally
live by that statement, as I am careful to watch over the ways of my own
household. So for the life of me I cannot
understand why people choose to voluntarily loot and burn down their own
communities in a fit of anger. What type
of Justice can any of us expect to receive by tearing down the very communities
we need protection for?
History has a habit
of repeating itself as we’ve seen during the 1968 riots in Washington after Dr.
M.L King was killed. Again in 1991 in
New York during the Crown Heights riots, and a year later in Los Angeles
following the assault on Rodney King.
When, as a whole, will the African American community especially those
who consider themselves activists figure out that burning down your own house
will do nothing more than leave you without a voice or a home?
