Friday, January 15, 2016
Rally Point: Chase Bank 560 Mission Street
(between First and Second...right outside Montgomery BART)
11:00 a.m.
Join the rally for economic justice for Pastor Yul Dorn and Family! Your stand helps the Dorn Family and others.
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In advance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday,
Mercy Grace Martinez of ACCE among those arrested to help keep
the Dorn Family in their home of 20 years.
(click image for video)
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In this benign moment of a sheriff's deputy compassionately carrying out Pastor Yul Dorn's grandson in the midst of this economic war that has no artillery blasts, but is nonetheless destructive, hearts break in San Francisco. Is that the problem? Are there so many broken hearts in San Francisco that are so damaged they can't work together to keep people in their homes while finding solutions to give banks and investors the money they are legally due? That photo is tragic in another way, a young black male in the hands of law enforcement. May the psychic terror that this photo speaks to me not be realized in this child's life is my prayer for him and I pray for there to be a change in the dynamics that have so many Black people carried away by the injustice system.
May it be as in Psalm 144:11-15.
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks lying words,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood-
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
That our daughters may be as pillars,
Sculptured in palace style;
That our barns may be full,
Supplying all kinds of produce;
That our sheep may bring forth thousands
And ten thousands in our fields;
That our oxen may be well laden;
That there be no breaking in or going out;
That there be no outcry in our streets.
Happy are the people who are in such a state;
Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!
(That baby in the arms of the law reminded me of the song I heard as a child about "Sweet Jesus," "He Never Said a Mumbling Word." That is the sweetest child with the sweetest spirit. He did not cry out one time through the entire ordeal. My Lord! Our children deserve better. Our children deserve the best!)
How is it that in the "City of San Francisco," "the City of Refuge and Mercy," "the City that Can," that in the midst of preparations for the millions of dollars to be
spent on Superbowl 50 and the millions to be
spent for Superbowl 50 by the public and government, San Francisco has not figured out how to use the money San Franciscans' voted to put aside to
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| Yul Dorn, SF Sheriff's Chaplain stands ground for his family and home fighting against billion dollar Chase Bank and a speculator looking for a quick ROI. |
help people in this housing crisis? Whatever happened to the "stimulus money" that the federal government sent to municipalities initially to help homeowners after "we the people" bailed out the banks?
All of this so-called intelligence in the Bay Area and folks can't figure out how to re-calibrate paperwork to keep working people in their homes.
Two things were telling for me...1) As I called newsrooms about this heartbreaking situation, I was asked "Are there any guns?" "Is the situation about to get violent?" No on site media coverage except Saleem's that was posted on "48 Hills." KGO Radio carried the story about the eviction. 2) Someone called me as I was at the site and they knew I had been there the day before, the inevitable question came up..."Well, didn't he do something wrong? and that is always the question that overhangs the foreclosure crisis.
My response: "I DON'T CARE IF HE DID SOMETHING WRONG! FOLKS WITH MORE POWER AND MONEY HAVE DONE MORE WRONG!... I told my fellow Christian that I'm standing close to Jesus on this one: Messianic Psalm 22:24..HE DID NOT DESPISE THE AFFLICTION OF THE AFFLICTED.
I am not despising what has happened. Yes, something went wrong, but I just want to see families hurt by forecloser helped. I'm not going to ask questions as to "how did it get to this point."
Before the day ended, January 14, 2016 I do believe the answer was given to that question of wrongdoing that hangs over folks that have experienced foreclosure.
IN US NEWS TODAY:
In this benign moment of a sheriff's deputy compassionately carrying out Pastor Yul Dorn's grandson in the midst of this economic war that has no artillery blasts, but is nonetheless destructive, hearts break in San Francisco. Is that the problem? Are there so many broken hearts in San Francisco that are so damaged they can't work together to keep people in their homes while finding solutions to give banks and investors the money they are legally due? That photo is tragic in another way, a young black male in the hands of law enforcement. May the psychic terror that this photo speaks to me not be realized in this child's life is my prayer for him and I pray for there to be a change in the dynamics that have so many Black people carried away by the injustice system.May it be as in Psalm 144:11-15.Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,Whose mouth speaks lying words,And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood-That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;That our daughters may be as pillars,Sculptured in palace style;That our barns may be full,Supplying all kinds of produce;That our sheep may bring forth thousands
