Stand your ground

Stand Your Ground

Listen up, people!

Let me take you to the corner where the law and injustice collide.

They call it “Stand Your Ground” – it's the dumbest law on the books! It amounts to reckless endangerment.

This law says: If you feel threatened, if you believe your life is in danger, you can shoot.

Just like that. Bang!

Your fear becomes a trigger, your suspicion becomes a sentence,

And someone’s child, someone’s father, someone’s Trevon– ends up six feet under. Trevon was minding his own business, walking down the street, grown man, a diehard hater accosted him. Fight broke out , travon was winning, the hater pulled and fired, and Trevor was gone. A juror of haters don't think there is anything wrong with a grown man fighting a seventeen year old boy. Stand your ground triumphs, the killer walks.

Two cases lit up the headlines in Florida –

Two lives, two verdicts, two worlds apart.

One man walks free.

Another man, guilty of murder.

Same law, same state, different outcomes.

Where is the justice? Where is the balance?

They told us this law was for self-defense.

But too often it becomes a hunting license for the fearful and the hateful.

Too often, it turns sidewalks into battlefields,

And turns arguments into funerals.

Let me preach it to you plain –

Justice with two faces is no justice at all.

Justice that changes depending on the skin you’re in

Ain’t nothing but legalized chaos!

The Word says, “Thou shalt not kill.”

But this law says, “If you’re scared enough, go ahead.”

The Word says, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

But this law says, “Be quick on the draw.”

My brothers, my sisters – we’ve got to do better!

We’ve got to fight for laws that value life over fear,

That honor truth over bias,

That demand justice, even when it’s inconvenient.

Travon gone, but his blood still cries out from the ground.

It cries out, “Where is my justice?”

And until we stand together, until we demand better,

Until we turn fear into understanding and anger into action –

We will keep digging graves for the innocent.

So I say today:

Stand your ground for love.

Stand your ground for peace.

Stand your ground for truth.

But most of all – stand your ground for justice,

Because without justice, there can be no peace!

Pop, pop, pop and there's no peace.