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Stand Your Ground - Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Paperback)
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"If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on
that sidewalk?" --President Barack ObamaThe 2012 killing of Trayvon
Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subsequent
acquittal of his killer, brought public attention to controversial
"Stand Your Ground" laws. The verdict, as much as the killing, sent
shock waves through the African-American community, recalling a
history of similar deaths, and the long struggle for justice. On
the Sunday morning following the verdict, black preachers around
the country addressed the question, "Where is the justice of God?
What are we to hope for?" This book is an attempt to take seriously
social and theological questions raised by this and similar
stories, and to answer black church people's questions of justice
and faith in response to the call of God.But Kelly Brown Douglas
also brings another significant interpretative lens to this text:
that of a mother. "There has been no story in the news that has
troubled me more than that of Trayvon Martin's slaying. President
Obama said that if he had a son his son would look like Trayvon. I
do have a son and he does look like Trayvon." Her book will also
affirm the "truth" of a black mother's faith in these times of
stand your ground.
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