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Nosotros Somos La Justicia

10/9/2018

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At a recent community service of lament and healing in the wake of the Jason Van Dyke trial, a member of the Hispanic congregation offered the following reflection:
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I have come to talk about the human rights situation here in the United States, where it is proclaimed that we are the country of human rights. But in this moment, they are completely broken.

Human rights in this country have been completely broken. If our dead, like Martin Luther King, who defended the rights of his people, were here now, I believe he would suffer even more than what he suffered at his time- suffered like [Laquan McDonald’s] mother, whose son was taken. It was something so horrible, something- in that moment- that was only pain for her. 

I come from a country [of El Salvador] that also has suffered violence. So many died, and so many disappeared. For that reason, we feel the pain of every mother that sees her son die, [albeit] in different circumstances. We were jailed, we were put in dungeons where, supposedly, we had disappeared.  Our only commitment was to work for our people. The pain of the people, like here in the United States- we are all in pain in this moment.

We identify with the God of love and justice.  That justice has been broken for years and years.  But we are the justice that we must lift up and carry forward to be in better conditions.

We are the justice.


Un miembro de nuestra congregación hispana compartió la siguiente reflexión en un servicio de lamento y sanidad después del juicio de Jason Van Dyke:

Vengo a hablar sobre la situación de los derechos humanos aquí en los Estados Unidos… donde se levanta la voz que somos el país de los derechos humanos,  pero en este momento se están quebrantando de total.

Los derechos humanos en este país se han quebrantando totalmente. Si nuestros muertos, como Martin Luther King, que defendió los derechos de su gente, si estuviera aquí ahorita, creo que sufriría más de lo que sufrió en su época- como esta madre [de Laquan McDonald], que levantaron a su hijo- fue algo tan horrendo, que en ese momento, nada más fue de dolor para ella.

Yo vengo de mi país [de El Salvador], que también se sufrió de la violencia. Murieron muchos, y fueron muchos los desaparecidos. Por eso sentimos el dolor de cada madre que ven morir a un hijo en diferentes circunstancias. Fuimos encarcelados, y fuimos puestos en mazmorras donde, supuestamente, éramos desaparecidos.  Solamente el compromiso de nosotros era trabajar por nuestro pueblo.  El dolor del pueblo, como aquí en los Estados Unidos. Todos estamos con dolor en este momento.

Estamos identificados con ese Dios de amor y de justicia.  Esta justicia que se han quebrantado por años y años.  Pero nosotros somos la justicia, que tenemos que levantarla y seguir adelante para poder estar en mejores condiciones. 

Nosotros somos la justicia.

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