Per Caritatem: "For Douglass to gloss over this all-too-recent contemptible American history because he is no longer in chains would be to turn a deaf ear to the “mournful wail of millions” and to once again allow the white, hegemonic culture to write the black story. Moreover, Douglass reminds his audience—who, after all, function as analogues to the captors of God’s people of old—that God’s heart bleeds for the weak, the humble, the downtrodden. Though a merciful and forgiving God, divine justice unlike human justice will not, in the end, be mocked."
While the above has merit, I offer a correction.In the end, justice will not be mocked because human beings will finally have chosen the ontological values of tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry in sufficient numbers to create a world where justice is ever more common.
Updated 10 August 2012
