Confrontation: A Right and A Duty

On February 13, 2018, a RPD officer told me I should avoid confrontation with my neighbors. Excuse me. Who initiates the confrontation? I will not allow these neighbors for whom I did much and now go out their way to destroy my peace of mind to go un-confronted. And, I have good company on peaceful confrontation.

As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own ‘‘pilgrimage to nonviolence’’ in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and in subsequent books and articles. ‘‘True pacifism,’’ or ‘‘nonviolent resistance,’’ King wrote, is ‘‘a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love’’ (King, Stride, 80). Both ‘‘morally and practically’’ committed to nonviolence, King believed that ‘‘the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom’’ (King, Stride, 79; Papers 5:422). [from google] “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” King wrote. “It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” [fron google]

I will not shy away from peacefully confronting and documenting worsening acts of evil by my racist neighbors.

[When will the Richmond Police Department realize that it caused the Anne Street crisis and can no longer igknow (choose not to know) the tension? CrowJimism is more than Anne Street. It dramatizes the inherent institutionalized black racism that is growing and eating at the core of civility everywhere in America. It fuels some the angry white rage of the far right. CrowJimism is a threat to the Primary Moral Imperative of saving life on earth from climate change.RSB]