Social Justice—Inspired?—Motivated?—Effective?—Commanded?—Blessed?
\n– – –
\nIt’s just not right!
\nIt bothers me!
\nIt troubles me!
\nIt makes me so angry!
\nI have to do something!
\nI must let out my anger!
\nI’ve got to just hit something!
\nGotta hurt something!
\nGotta hurt somebody!
\nGotta beat on the first thing I see!
\nGotta hurt the first person in my way!
\nI’m so angry!
\nGotta use my fists!
\nGotta use the first object I see to hurt, to destroy!
\nGotta get my anger out, or else!
\nDoesn’t matter who gets hurt!
\nDoesn’t matter what gets destroyed!
\nGotta express my anger!
\nJust try and stop me!
\nI’m angry RIGHT NOW—that’s all that matters now!
\nSomebody’s got to pay, because I’m angry!
\nDon’t try talking to me!
\nI don’t want to talk about it!
\nI just want to be angry!
\n– – –
\nAnything is better than not having a purpose.
\nAnything is better than sitting around doing nothing.
\nAnything is better than wandering around doing nothing.
\nJust give me a cause, anybody, and I’m there—
\n—ready, fit to unload my anger.
\n—ready, fit to destroy something.
\n—ready, fit to hurt somebody.
\n– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
\nSocial Justice—Protests?—Progress?
\nSocial Justice—Commanded? YES
\nSocial Justice—Blessed? YES
\nSocial Justice—Instructions? YES
\n– – –
\n\u201cIs not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
\nto loose the chains of injustice
\nand untie the cords of the yoke,
\nto set the oppressed free
\nand break every yoke?
\nIs it not to share your food with the hungry
\nand to provide the poor wanderer with shelter\u2014
\nwhen you see the naked, to clothe them,
\nand not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
\nThen your light will break forth like the dawn,
\nand your healing will quickly appear;
\nthen your righteousness will go before you,
\nand the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
\nThen you will call, and the Lord will answer;
\nyou will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
\nIf you do away with the yoke of oppression,
\nwith the pointing finger and malicious talk,
\nand if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
\nand satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
\nthen your light will rise in the darkness,
\nand your night will become like the noonday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Social Justice—Inspired?—Motivated?—Effective?—Commanded?—Blessed? – – – It’s just not right! It bothers me! It troubles me! It makes me so angry! I have to do something! I must let out my anger! I’ve got to just hit something! Gotta hurt something! Gotta hurt somebody! Gotta beat on the first thing I see! Gotta hurt the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}