OT favorite Mitch Landrieu comments on "No Justice, No Peace!"

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The phrase "No justice, no peace," is probably as misunderstood and misconstrued as the phrase "Black lives matter." The same people who hear "Black lives matter" as indifference to other people's well-being are likely the same people who hear "No justice, no peace" as a promise to hurt somebody. If somebody said, "No rain, no flowers" or "No pain, no gain," the meaning would be clear: the second thing won't happen without the first.

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At his final state of the city address at the Civic Theater on July 6, Mayor Mitch Landrieu talked about violent crime, a problem that he noted "has been with us for a very, very long time." Landrieu said we need a long-term approach to solving our crime problem even as we keep trying to come up with short-term solutions. But one of his main points was that it's wrong to talk about violence as if it happens in a vacuum. We have to acknowledge and address its context. "Where there is no justice, there is no peace," the mayor said. "We have to become a just city if we want to become a peaceful city. Think about it. Don't get angry. Just think!"

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