{"id":284,"date":"2014-12-05T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/12\/no-justice-no-christmas-why-michael-brown-and-eric-garners-deaths-make-advent-matter.html"},"modified":"2015-04-29T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:50:08","slug":"no-justice-so-christmas-why-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/12\/no-justice-so-christmas-why-michael.html","title":{"rendered":"No Justice, No Christmas? Why Michael Brown and Eric Garner\u2019s Deaths Make Advent Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">This week the streets all over our country have been filled with protesters expressing grief, anger, shock and sorrow that Officer Darren Wilson (who shot and killed the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown) and Officer Daniel Pantaleo (who held the also-unarmed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during his arrest) failed to be indicted for their actions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Last night crowds across the U.S. staged sit-ins and die-ins, clogged bridges, and shut down major highways. Many of them chanted, \u201cNo Justice, No Christmas.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><em style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">No Justice, No Christmas.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">At first glance, I agreed with them. Screw it. Let\u2019s just shut it all down. Shut down the bridges, the roads, the rivers, the train stations and the airports. Shut down the mall Santas and the Christmas pageants and the holiday parties and the family get-togethers. And then let\u2019s shut down Christmas itself.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Because who wants to open a stocking filled with candy and socks and lip gloss when the Brown and Garner families will be grieving for their loved ones who are no longer with them? Who wants to sing about joy when our country is feeling so much pain? Who wants to proclaim, \u201cPeace on earth, good will to men\u201d when peace and goodwill are precisely the things we\u2019re lacking right now?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\"><em style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">No Justice, No Christmas.\u00a0<\/em>Seems like a good idea, right?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Last night, after reading countless articles, watching live news feeds and following the #ShutItDown, #ICantBreathe, and #HandsUpDontShoot hashtags that were trending on Twitter, my heart was overwhelmed. I shut off my laptop and climbed into bed, watching a candle on my nightstand flicker in the dark.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 18px;margin-bottom: 20px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/sojo.net\/blogs\/2014\/12\/05\/no-justice-so-christmas-why-michael-brown-and-eric-garners-deaths-make-advent-matt\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the streets all over our country have been filled with protesters expressing grief, anger, shock and sorrow that Officer Darren Wilson (who shot and killed the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown) and Officer Daniel Pantaleo (who held the also-unarmed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during his arrest) failed to be indicted for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Justice, No Christmas? 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