Bending towards justice.
September 22, 2011
The woman appeared on the TV screen at around 10:20 Chicago time to announce the murder of Troy Davis in the name of the people of the state of Georgia.
Without saying a word to Anne, who was sitting next to me on the couch, I reached for the remote and turned the TV off.
We went to bed.
Nothing needed to be said.
This morning I heard Dr. Raphael Warnock of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church on the car radio. Ebenezer was the home church of Martin Luther King.
Dr. Warnock quoted King.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
I believe that.
Addendum: But as my old friend Jim Skillman reminds me, the arc needs all the help it can get.
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This whole story is such a sad commentary on the state of our culture as a whole. There are so many recent cases of justice denied; the inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning and other “detainees”, indefinite detention of terror suspects, the asinine war on drugs and the resultant record prison population, crowds cheering for Rick Perry’s record of executions at a Republican debate; it is very hard to say that we have progressed much at all since the days of the Salem witch trials.