Last night, in my view, justice was served.
A jury of George Zimmerman's peers overcame invested emotion and political and cultural pressures to find a
While I find myself relieved, I'm also completely aware that a family is missing their 17 year old son.
My heart goes out to them and to any family losing a loved one violently which brings me to the challenge.
As of 3 days ago, 21 people have been killed in Chicago in July, a number of them younger than Trayvon.
Many more have died since the first of the year and over 500 people were murdered last year.
And again, those numbers are just for Chicago.
Where is the emotion over these deaths?
Where are the calls for justice over these murders?
Why isn't social media aflame over these killings?
The challenge ought to be obvious.
Take all the emotion, take all the calls for justice, take all the anger and all the head shaking in disgust and channel it all into attacking what I consider to be the root causes: moral apathy, fatherless families and a prevalent and violent thug culture.
I challenge Jesse Jackson. I challenge Al Sharpton. I challenge all civil rights leaders and all who are outraged today to apply all this energy toward seeking justice for the far too many that are being murdered in urban neighborhoods across the country.
Let's set aside the demagoguery, the political leveraging, the focus on that which divides and separates and instead do what is right so that evil can be conquered.
Lord, show us humility and grant us unity to get this done.
Quickly.
Mother Mary, pray for us, pray for peace, and point us all toward the Prince of peace.
