Opinion: How will the images from Los Angeles shape the rising generation?
A U.S Marine guards a federal building June 13 in Los Angeles. (Noah Berger/AP)
Joshua Henry Narcisse
The Rev. Joshua Henry Narcisse is director of spiritual care at Church Health and serves as parish associate at Idlewild Presbyterian Church. He is co-host of “The Mystic”, a monthly discussion forum hosted at Crosstown Concourse, and he lives in Downtown Memphis.
“This week (today’s teenagers) saw the military apparatus of their country deployed against their fellow citizens under the guise of ‘serving and protecting.’”
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