Who we are?
Lazarus is a Collabrative project of Ms. Kathy Jackson of Hobson City Alabama, Brenda Faye Surles of Anniston Alabama, and Rev. Fred Williams of Brooklyn New York. It is suggested that anyone so moved to join our effort for social justice for Young Men and Women of Color, should read Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail, written on April 16th, 2013, 50 years ago.
http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/dos/mlk/letter.html
It is our hope to focus our efforts in two distinct pathways:
Lazarus the Beggar - For the ones who remain
Lazarus of Bethany - For those who are bound in grave clothes
The Second Lazarus: The Beggar
The
Key point of "Lazarus the Begger" is the desire of the Rich man to have a
transitory message of redemption given to his five brothers, who are
still living.
The Number Five (5) is important in the context
that it has been Five decades since Dr. Kings Letter from the Birmingham
Jail, and the blight of Racism still haunts the United States on the
Macro, Alabama on the Micro. Unlike the Parables
author, who suggests that sending Lazarus back from the Dead to warn
the Rich Man's brothers of their potential fate is faulty, we believe
that we the living, in this "E Pluribis Unum" union must call our racist
brothers and sisters to reconcilation, by the means of NonViolence
protest and legal action.
Luke 16: 28 He said, "I ask you
therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; for I
have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come
into this place of torment."
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