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Can We Just All Get Along (Again)?
“As I have prayed for my son’s healing, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, I also have been praying, even before this, for the healing of our country…We are the United States. Have we been united? Do you understand what’s going to happen when we fall? Because a house that is against each other cannot stand. To all of the police officers, I’m praying for you and your families. To all of the citizens, my Black and brown sisters and brothers, I’m praying for you. I believe that you are an intelligent being just like the rest of us. Everybody, let’s use our hearts, our love, and our intelligence to work together to show the rest of the world how humans are supposed to treat each other.”
Julia Jackson said those words. Ms. Jackson is the mother of Jacob Blake, the 29 year old man, shot in the back seven times by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Her son is fighting for his life and somewhere within her, she found compassion. She could have, but didn’t, call for blood. She rose above the fray. She was not going to be the violence and racist chaos that is America. As was said in Minneapolis weeks back by Kimberly Jones, America is lucky Black people want equality, and not revenge.
We have been here before. Rodney King, still traumatized from the brutal beating he suffered at the hands of four police officers, also made a similar plea for peace as Los…
