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Prompt: Based on this case study, is it credible to claim that “one can see the
justice of God working in the world” (197) if this is a world where black persons can be
killed without consequences for their killers? Stated differently, is it possible for God
and humans “to create the world we crave for our daughters and sons” (227)? If yes,
how? If no, why?
Required reading: (please base essay solely from these sources)
Body: A Guilty Body” (ch. 2), and “Manifest Destiny War” (ch. 3) in Stand
Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015), pp. 3-132.
“Jesus and Trayvon: The Justice of God” (ch. 5), and “Prophetic
Testimony: The Time of God” (ch. 6), in Stand Your Ground, pp. 137-227.
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Justice of God
Ideally, there are times in our lives we tend to question the role of God in our lives,
especially when we are undergoing trying moments. In particular, when faced with all sorts of
social atrocities such as the case of racism, where we are categorized as minorities at the center
of the supremacy of the majority who believe they are more superior to us and are more entitled
to some rights than us, we tend to question if our God is just. And if for sure God is just, we
expect that He should promptly deal with those inflicting pain on our lives and causing us all
sorts of social injustices, sometimes even taking our lives away. All these can be put into the
context of the “stand-your-ground” culture that forms the basis of Black sufferings. Looking
deeply at Kelly Douglas’s book: Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God, it is
clear that one can visualize the justice of God in the world by particularly focusing on the
crucifixion of Jesus that can be connected to Trayvon’s murder.
Nevertheless, in the world where black persons are killed without consequences for their
killers, most people, especially the vic...
