JUSTICE

On this day honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., and in the lead up to today, the words of his many speeches calling for justice for the oppressed has reverberated through the halls of many churches and institutions of note. The sad reality is that they were primarily words without soul, repeated with the same manufactured fervor every year in the hope that repeating them will render them as powerful as when they first were spoken. But words with such depth and of such magnitude fall listlessly unless they find a kindred spirit and a kindred soul to birth them. They would prefer to be left unspoken, lest they be rendered sophistry. The powers that be know when the words, as spoken, lack soul; they know that this current generation is "drunk with the wine of the world" (James Weldon Johnson).