Thoughts on “Racial Justice”

I hate useless and euphemistic language. It is a personal quirk, but I prefer words to carry meaning, and for language to be a means of communication. The term “Racial Justice” is a euphemism. What does it mean? If it means justice, why is there a qualifier? Perhaps an apologist wanting “Racial Justice” to mean justice will explain to me that the qualifier only focuses our attention on the area where justice is needed. But is it just to focus on one particular aspect of a situation? Can justice be a racial question? I thought justice was blind, that any partiality was antagonistic to justice. I had in mind that justice meant something along the lines of lex talionis, of rendering to each his due. Yet, if our primary question moves from, “What is just?” unto, “What’s his skin color?” are we not showing partiality, are we not unjust?

Racial Justice appears to be a lie. On one hand, we are told it is merely justice by another name, and on the other, we are told that we are not to consider the individual person, his deeds, what he, as the image of God upon this earth, has done, but consider his skin color. Race has nothing to do with justice.