Sonya Massey and Police Depravity

It’s Beyond Police Brutality; It’s Police Depravity

A Sharp Rebuke

Rebuke: to express sharp disapproval or criticism of someone because of their actions, behavior, or judgment.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus” was among the last words of Sonya Massey as she was summarily executed by deputy Sean Grayson of Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office near Springfield, Illinois.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus” ~ Sonya Massey

To rebuke is to disapprove, dislike, or not endorse. To rebuke someone in the “name of Jesus” is to disapprove of someone because the standards at which Jesus exists, or has existed, are notably higher than the standards of your current proven behavior, actions, or judgment thus far. I rebuke you because Jesus is the Most High, and you most certainly have strayed from his philosophy concerning what it means to be good in this world and the next.

For my white and other non-Black cousins: this phrase is most certainly a Black, Afro-American thing. It’s beyond me how a large well-built man finds threat in a small woman stating her disapproval of mere words.

Sonya Massey rebuked Sean Grayson in the name of Jesus. What does that mean? One thing it means is that in this place where so many white Americans claim to be a Christian nation, Black people aren’t allowed to be Christian.

To so many white people of America, to be Christian means to be white, which is something Sonya Massey can never be. The concept of Christianity equaling whiteness is so prevalent in America that many Black people also cosign the idea, which is among the basis of Black abandonment of Christianity. If you listen to Black atheists of America, Christianity is a white construct. To an extent, such as how we observe it here in the U.S.A., yes, they are correct. But Christianity existed before white powers took it, so my agreement with my anti-Christian Black atheist friends is limited. It would be in poor taste to suggest that Sonya Massey’s observance of Jesus — the hero of Christianity — is the reason why she got murdered in her own home.

Sonya Massey rebuked him in the name of Jesus; Sean Grayson rebuked…