by Dr. John E. Warren
While the daily media has us focusing on the dismantling of America’s institutions, healthcare, and services both here and abroad, we see that the issue is not Trump as much as it is those who sit silently and allow his breaking of every law and oath he swore to “protect and defend” as President of the United States. The Members of Congress, both the House and the Senate, also took the same Oath of Office as the President when elected. Clearly, their refusal to act as required under the separation of powers provided in the Constitution makes them complicit with the President in the usurping of powers, breaking of laws, and the placing of unqualified and destructive people in positions of power being used against the American people.
The solution to all this is prayer. Prayer for and by a Nation that was founded on Christian principles; a people who really meant it when we put “In God We Trust” on our currency; a people whose very Pledge of Alliance” speaks of being “One Nation Under God”. We as a nation need to go beyond the National Day of Prayer, which has become a ritual. We need to pull out our Bibles, dust them off, and read 2 Chronicles 7:14 which says:
“If my people which are called by my name, shall Humble themselves, and PRAY, and SEEK MY FACE, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and Will heal their land.”
We don’t need organized daily prayer groups, although that could be powerful if the people are earnest and serious with their prayers. We just need individuals to start praying against the evil of those in power, remembering Ephesians 6:12:
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
It was prayer that got us through the Civil Rights Struggle. It is prayer that should fuel our protest marches each day against this Administration, and against those men and women who swore allegiance to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is prayer that will lead us to their replacements in the weeks ahead, but we must not be afraid to speak truth to power.
As our Black newspapers print truth, as in this editorial, You, the reader, must not be afraid to respond to this call to prayer as an action against the assault on us and our values. Protect the papers that are not afraid to print this truth. Pray first, then protest and vote. We have so little time and so much to do.
(Dr. John E. Warren is Publisher, San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper, Chairman of the Board of Directors, NNPA)
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