As of today, May 30, 2020 there have been 4 straight days of protests and rioting over the killing of George Floyd (an African American) by a white city police officer in Minneapolis Minnesota. Many businesses have been destroyed and looted, Wendy’s, Target’s, Autozone’s, new apartment complex’s completely looted and/ or destroyed. Quite possibly, driving these businesses from these neighborhoods forever.

These protests have broken out in many cities. I notice that whenever there is a racially motivated killing, (or what appears to be a racially motivated killing) tremendous anger and oven protests break out, sometimes rioting and looting and vandalizing. Anger over this is understandable given our country’s history.

The police officer who choked this man to death with his knee has been arrested and is being charged with murder. No one has defended his actions or is saying what he did was appropriate.

So why the sustained rage and rioting and spreading of protests? What else might be going on here?

What Else is Going On Here?

I think something else is going on here that few are talking about. It’s easy to say its politically motivated and bad actors are at play (even though they may be) but I can’t help but wonder if the anger and rage may be misdirected. I wonder if the rage and violence we see is actually a result of other feelings of different types of disadvantage that people are experiencing.

For example, in Minneapolis there are many video clips of white kids destroying black-owned properties. I’m sure they were not thinking this through but, destruction of others people’s property not knowing (or caring) who it belongs to, (it may have even been owned by George Floyd himself) is a display of rage aimed at money privilege, not racial privilege.

Furthermore, I believe there is a good chance that the killing of George Floyd was as much motivated by government privilege (manifesting as police brutality) as it was by race. That officer likely had an attitude that “I will do what I need to do to restrain this man even if he is not resisting any more.” Even though he had all his weight on his neck and his life was in danger and people were calling his attention to it. Also George could be heard saying “I can’t breathe”, what sort of lunatic thinks they can inflict that on someone else? A government thug drunk on his power, who thinks they can do what they want to people to maintain control. To be fair, we cannot know his motivations with certainty?

The End of All Wordly Privilege

As in all things the cure and reversal of all the evils on earth is found within the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ has destroyed all racial privilege, hatred and prejudice in himself. Ending the racial divisions from Adam and Eve and creating in himself one new humanity. In Jesus Christ, there is no Jew, no gentile, no black, no white and no Asian people. All are one in Jesus Christ, all are equal, in Him our physical genetics no longer matter. Jesus Christ has destroyed all racial animosity once and for all within himself.

Jesus Christ has destroyed all financial privilege. In Jesus Christ “let the poor say I am rich.” In Jesus Christ the rich are to give to the poor and the poor are to work with their hands so they too can have money to give to other poor. In Jesus Christ the abundance of one Christian is intended to supply the lack of another Christian.

Jesus Christ has destroyed all government privilege. The evil principalities and powers who have terrorized mankind since the fall are subject to the Lord Jesus. The ecclesia exists to pray for the government. The government powers are to be separated from one another because they are not to be trusted and Jesus is the only real rightful king of the earth. The government exists to maintain peace and quietness. The government is to be held accountable to the people of the ecclesia of Jesus Christ.