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\u201cSo we cooked my son and ate him\u201d (v. 29)\u2014a passing moment in the cycles of kingship that leaves little room for moral judgment. Famine in besieged Samaria has led Israel to cannibalism. When the woman who coaxes this mother into surrendering her child for their survival hides her own, the mother seeks justice. It is not the women but the leaders who have blood on their hands. The culture of economic disparity, political corruption, and religious malfeasance under which these women live cuts to the present.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sybrina Fulton is running for Miami-Dade County Commissioner. It took her son, Trayvon Martin, being shot down in order for her to stand up. With the other Mothers of the Movement she told the 2016 Democratic National Convention that she did not want the spotlight. She will now do everything she can \u201cto focus some of this light on the pain of a path out of the darkness.\u201d Grief rallies them to lift up the bereaved and take action in the quest for public safety, compassion, and equality.<\/span><\/p>\n

The king of Israel enacts his thoughts and prayers by rending his clothes and blaming Elisha. God\u2019s apparent disloyalty permeates this chapter and its accompanying passages. He seems well on the side of the Syrians as he cures their commander Na\u2019aman of leprosy and spares them becoming prisoners of war in Samaria. Elisha\u2019s servant Gehazi and the lepers who plunder the abandoned Aramaean camp might be forgiven for trying to make ends meet when the country is at war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is the mothers who call BS on the turmoil over which the king of Israel presides.<\/span><\/p>\n