The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.
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The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
People believe in the power of education to change lives.
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
Education is a vacine for violence.
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
Education is the vaccine for violence.