10 If you falter in a time of trouble,
how small is your strength!
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
Or what they haven't done.
There are a lot of errors of omission on the table in our treatment of minorities, especially blacks. There's a tendency to treat "inner city" problems as something that small-towners or suburbanites don't have to worry about.
There's a reason that's the "Black lives matter" manta is in play. If blacks are viewed as an other (and loyal Democrats to boot) then your silent-majority folks will not go out their way to help, shrugging their shoulders and saying "What can we do?" in a way that shows their lack of interest in doing anything that requires effort or money.
Solomon is calling out the silent majority for being silent in the face of injustice. I don't have any good policy prescriptions for dealing with the issues on the table, but doing nothing doesn't seem to be a godly option.
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