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I love, Lord, all right, he heard my cry. A white police officer who shot and killed a 26 year old black man in his own home in Dallas in 2018 has been convicted of murder.

The verdict came down Tuesday, more than a year after off-duty police officer Amber Geiger

killed both in Jean. I'm starting today's episode like this for many

I'm starting today's episode like this for many reasons the least of which is not to establish the fact that as all

of you know and I've said time and time again on this show without any reservation I am a Christian and I have been one since the age of

seven I was born into a Christian family and it only makes sense that I become a

Christian even though I found it for myself as I got older and came back to it, that's my story.

I want to establish that first and foremost.

Because I have to talk about a pathology that exists amongst Christians, that black

Christians in particular that enables white supremacy to go unchecked in this country day after day after year it is the pathology of

forgiveness without actual justice. We are constantly asked if we forgive our abusers.

We're constantly asked if we forgive those people who brutalize us

systemically.

Do we forgive the white police officers who killed our nephew, our friend?

Do we forgive the officer who killed Cori Jones? Do we forgive the officer who killed

Baltham Jean? Do we forgive the officer who killed Michael Brown them John do we forgive the officer who killed

Michael Brown do we forgive George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin we are

constantly asked in the black community whether or not we forgive someone and

black Christians time and again because this is what

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