Day 239 – The root of racism and its solution…
A couple of my friends were discussing the current horrific tragedy on everyone’s lips.
We regularly talk about the problems of the world and like all other challenges faced by humanity, I reverted to the solution that I believe can heal all manner of profound issues:
The last thing that I can say on this situation is no matter how good a political standing may look, there’s not a single human mechanism or system on this planet that can deal with the problems we’re talking about here.
This is not pessimistic because my optimism lies in Jesus.
He’s quite literally the only solution to the problems we regularly talk about.
The root issue behind these problems isn’t a specific government or how they’re conducting themselves.
Governments and their operation are catalysts to an age-old problem with the human condition itself.
The reason why you see institutionalised racism in the police force is the same reason why prisons form gangs determined by race.
It’s the extreme scenarios…
The result of these extreme circumstances…are like a high-pressure cooker…bringing the inherent evils of man to the surface.
One cannot be surprised that there is institutionalised racism, when at the heart of man is his own subjective moral code, self-preservation, pride, and fear.
Racism is the HORROR of a world willingly subscribed to self-preservation, survival, and the notion of evolution.
This is moral-relativism or subjective morality – just a side of it that a majority quite-rightly find repulsive.
This is the human condition without God.
So often, the Bible shows what happens when man goes at life on his own, independent of God.
It’s a bloody mess…literally…
Bottom line is the problems we’re talking about are dealing with a brokenness that exists in every single human being – no one is exempt.
Martin Luther King Jr’s movement was uniquely special – one might even say Godly or divinely anointed.
It wasn’t because he had some unique strategy of his own making or some innovative system to bring about change.
It was because he was Christ-centred.
King knew what Jesus can do to heal and transform a human.
He also understood what Jesus stood for when he walked this Earth.
We–broken humanity–need help from another source other than a broken human.
That source is Jesus.
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