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I don’t know what else to do, so I’m just talking into the void now, I guess.
I study theodicy not because it’s some abstract philosophical problem.
I study it because there is something ontological about black suffering. Something that exceeds institutions.
I study theodicy not because it’s some abstract philosophical problem.
I study it because there is something ontological about black suffering. Something that exceeds institutions.
As I say in #blacklifematter, sitting with a suffering beloved is not the moment to offer theodicean explanations. Jesus *might* work it out—and we hope that he does—but to offer this in the acute moment of pain seems insensitive at best and downright foul at worst.
To sit with someone is to look at their pain and see that it isn’t limited to them. It is to see the source of that suffering clearly, “to know and do and be from there,” as @hystericalblkns might say (I’m quoting from memory, so that might not be precise).
