The American experiment has never been perfect; it’s a process. America is a long game. It is as perfect or as imperfect as the people who foster and protect it in each generation. We’re a country that’s gotten it wrong many times before, but we’re a country that over time does tend to make things right. And our challenge now is clear. Let’s not be the first generation to wimp out on the job of making right in America something thats so clearly wrong. In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Justice in America isnt magically bequeathed from one generation to the next; no written document can guarantee it always. Justice has to be vigilantly defended and expanded, the longing for it alive in the hearts of committed citizens year after year. And thats whats happening today, as people all over America are making it clear that the issue of a skewed criminal justice system will not go away. This is not a bad thing, its a good thing. And its why I stood applauding those who marched up Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles last night, protesting not necessarily one grand jury decision but rather an legal system now reeking with the stench of entrenched injustice. Darren Wilson will not stand trial, but our criminal justice system absolutely must. The jury is the American people and the trial has only just begun. May justice be done, in this and in all things. And may it be done through us.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:59:22 +0000
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