Through technological advances and its democratization, the camera is found to have dual functionality. It is both a prophetic and a missiological tool used to awaken the collective conscience of a nation apathetic towards the Black experience and to offer a counter-narrative reorienting the US to becoming a more racially just society. This paper considers definitions of gospel, missions, and the prophetic, outlining a framework for how the camera functions in all three. It briefly explores the use of the camera from Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Civil Rights Movement, to the contemporary citizen with a camera phone, all capturing anti-Black violence. As we will see, like the parables of Jesus were to his kingdom message, the content of the camera has proven vital to acquiring justice by exposing the realities of racial injustice, confronting the status quo, and energising viewers to take positive action.

通过技术进步及其民主化，人们发现相机具有双重功能。它既是预言性的又是宣教性的工具，用于唤醒一个对黑人经历漠不关心的国家的集体良知，并提供一种反叙事，重新定位美国，使其成为一个更加种族公正的社会。本文考虑了福音、使命和预言的定义，概述了相机如何在这三者中发挥作用的框架。它简要地探讨了从小马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King, Jr.）在民权运动期间到使用可拍照手机的当代公民的相机使用，所有这些都记录了反黑人暴力。正如我们将要看到的，就像耶稣对他的国度信息的比喻一样，相机的内容已被证明对于通过揭露种族不公正的现实来获得正义至关重要，