Look to yourself for justice

     With so much going on in the world does it make sense to anyone that acting out in violence against violence ever works? I know that right now in America the black citizens are outraged at the grand jury's decision not to indict two white officers who "killed black men".
     We stand on our soap boxes shouting that we want justice for the people wrongly "killed", yet we offer up as a way of social change, violence. Has anyone stopped to consider that if we as out spoken people of America want social equality, then violence has to be the last action we take against one another.
     Look you may not like that I'm quoting from the bible, but sometimes what we cry out for what has already be set in example. Don't forget, "Do unto others' as you would have them do unto to you." And yes that means that sometimes when we think that something awful, some higher form of injustice has occurred, we must stand quietly, hold each others' hands and lift up our voices for change.
     That path is never easy, it requires courage from a place far greater than most of us are willing to give. That level of courage must come from our hearts along with forgiveness, another aspect from the bible. Learning how to have that big social change means understanding that violence for everyone is wrong no matter the reason you think it is necessary.
    There will never be a time in our history where there is complete and true equality, that will only happen in the movies. People can come together as close as we can get, still demanding that all others' must live in peace, void of violence. This is a concept that far too often we expect for everyone else, but ourselves.
     That thing that you would demand from your neighbor, you must also demand from yourself, there in lies true equality and justice for all. Look to yourself for justice, for it is right inside of you, deep down within your heart, right where God placed it at your birth. We should never lose sight of justice without violence, equality for all, by all.
     Praise be to all mankind, be merciful, kind and loving.  True Peace from within,  will surely survive on the outside.

CJ