As many of you know I dont generally respond here to negative or misunderstood comments on my posts but I feel compelled to do so today. For clarity, not to be right. I have no desire to be right. Regarding my comments - which were few about Ferguson and Michael Brown specifically, this is all I said, and I quote.. So while I view the events in Ferguson as tragic, certainly for the young man, unarmed, gunned down, life stolen... and I pray for his peace and peace in that town. No where in that did I mean to imply he was right and police were wrong. What I was saying, in context to the larger post was that this is a tragedy, no matter how you slice it. It is part of our humanity under construction. Whether Michael Brown was in the wrong or the right, this is a human tragedy, for him, for the officer who shot him, for Ferguson, for our country, and for our humanity. Those who commented in opposition to my words, I agree, we do not fully know the events that led up to this tragedy but it IS, nonetheless, a human tragedy, and more specifically toward my larger message, a sad but true event in the construction of our humanity. That was the point. We are a humanity in development. And for anyone who has ever built anything, or trained for a sport, there are ALWAYS setbacks, some small, some tragic, but growth is never a constant forward motion. I suppose I have a larger issue with the general responses to my post yesterday and that is that I ended it with a hugely positive step forward, toward the construction of our humanity...the magnificent success of MoNe Davis and the Little League World series. She is a glimmer of Light, a Hope, that despite our setbacks, we are moving forward toward, toward humanity, toward equality for all, toward our God Given right and design of magnificence. So few of you seemed to comment on that. She is the Light that is forever intertwined, if by timing alone, with the tragedy in Ferguson. To my friends in St. Louis, fear not that your city has been blemished. You are an extraordinary city with a memorial that celebrates the very coming together of two sides - the arch. You are, as is Richmond Virginia and the woeful history here of slavery, simply a part of our story. Richmond today is a thriving city, exciting, filled with talent, hope, ingenuity, fairness, and some of the kindest people I have ever known. As to what is happening in your home now, there are those four simple words I alway recall in times of despair... this too shall pass. That said, we must also keep in our hearts four other words, let us not forget. Those two simple phrases this too shall pass, and let us not forget have been cornerstones in our history and built what is, despite its appearance and tragedies today, one of the finest, fairest, strongest, bravest, most promising countries on this earth. God Bless Michael Brown and his family. God Bless Officer Wilson and his family, God Bless Ferguson, God Bless us all with your Grace and Glory. This too shall pass. Love
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:06:34 +0000
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