AMERICAN MENTORS: A Gulf of Mistrust, Christmas Present

Youth Achievers USA

Last week we called on friends to include 2.1 billion Christians to touch and agree that Black Lives Matter. From our 2014 Christmas narrative we learned that lynching was a widely acknowledged practice in the United States until the middle of the 20th century. The U.S. Senate resolved to apologize for its own failure to enact anti-lynching legislation. As Ebenezer Scrooge might observe, that should be behind us as our ghost of Christmas past. For demonstrators taking to the streets protesting, proclaiming and declaring equal justice, it’s a new season! The injustice is called by another name, but the results are still the same. The numbers add up to an increase in dead folk and an ever-widening Gulf of Mistrust. The President’s assessment of events on the streets and in the courtroom accurately portrait the problem America faces this week of Christmas present. You can ask any of 2.1 billion Christians on earth about the jacked up arrest, trials and lynching of Jesus the Christ 2000 years ago, to get your sense of what needs to be done. In Christmas present, WE THE PEOPLE will need to realize WE ARE THE WORLD. Our friends are watching, hoping for a brighter day. So, let’s start living like Christmas future is a goal worth sharing by coming together to bridge what the president has termed, a Gulf of Mistrust. What will you do to make a change? What will you do to save our own lives? You can tweet us @YouthUSA, like us on Facebook.com/YouthAchieversUSA or call in during our live show 657-383-1405 Saturday, 12 noon ET, 11 am CT, 9 am PT.