Lessons from the Lacrosse Party: The Proof Will Be in Where We Go From Here

By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.

President, N.C. NAACP

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18 (King James Version)

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32

Since the North Carolina State Bar disbarred Durham County’s District Attorney, Michael Nifong, we have received many inquiries about what lessons we should draw from the way the media and the criminal justice system handled the acts of the participants at a lacrosse team party in Durham last March.  The official process of collecting evidence for a criminal trial has been stopped.  But the learning process of each of us as we seek to live our lives in tune with God’s will must never end. 

The first lesson is we must remember is how we got here.