“As the system excludes consideration of Chauvin’s character, the character of George Floyd is being examined.” Unjustly, people are being brutally mistreated and even murdered with the permission of the state. Cable news and newspaper analysts are arguing about the interpretation of the overwhelming statistical evidence that something is wrong. Heaped upon that are the accompanying comments that point to other videos that defy the reality that witness videos have repeatedly captured. My Facebook timeline and Twitter feed are filled with threads that contain videos of people being brutalized and unfairly treated by those who operate with the sanction of state authority. To defend or witness the death of Jesus would have only added to the disciples’ feelings of frustration, futility and fury. The function of their actions was justification, not justice.īecause his very being called into question their entire religious and social systems, Jesus, the target, was put on trial. These are the trials of Herod and the Sanhedrin. Those who looked upon the crucifixion took pleasure in his torture. It is what has come to be known as “violence porn.” The people who supported this system of sanctioned violence utilized the “justice apparatus” to lay upon their brutality a thin patina of legitimacy. In their innocence they also would have seen themselves in the unjust torture of their friend, their friend who also was fellow human and Savior.Īs a Black man, I get the intensity and pain of being connected to the unfolding, brutal miscarriage of justice. They would not have been able to stop the agony and pain. The disciples would have had to watch their friend being killed by state-sanctioned violence.
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