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The purpose of this blog is to share my passions and insights on topics that are relevant today and yesterday. I hope this blog, journal and journey offer insights on subjects and other relevant topics on how we can see and do things differently to make change in the world.
I woke up one morning thinking how little we have changed in comparison to how much the world has changed. I found myself seemingly suffocating, drowning, in a reality of existing in a landscape out of sync with my thought processes. I wanted to scream, “wake up everybody”! Really, after all, our thoughts drive our actions. Specifically, our actions are driven by a consciousness deep inside that we are unaware. To be stuck inside boundaries, that no longer serve meaningfully is tragic. There is only so much time we have on this earth, so to “get it right” holds more importance to me than one will ever know.
Most recently, the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, yet again, brought to surface the subject of race in America. The same race relation dialogue and rhetoric echoed so loudly that, in some instances, the fact that a mother just lost her son could not be heard. We will always have racism in America and we will never live in a color blind society. A colorblind society is a myth. Black people cannot be invisible souls that dot the landscape when the color of their skin screams “look at me”. A conundrum of sorts, sometimes with bad consequences. Dash those hopes and dreams because they are a veil cloaked in denial.
The reason racism still exists, simply put, is the stigma of slavery still exists and always will. No one has yet the ability to erase it from the psyche. When we begin to “get this”, we can start making meaningful changes in race relations in America. Our legacies do not make us bad or good. Perhaps, blindsided by guilt and shame, many of us cannot look in the mirror and reason the inhumanity of it all. We turn a blind eye pretending racism doesn’t exist or offer a colorblind solution that has never worked. The reason it has never worked is the legacy of the “oppressor” and “oppressed” is ingrained in our institutions, as well as, imprinted in our nervous systems; the very essence of who we are. Our autopilot is always operating beneath the surface.
We can all agree, our thoughts originate from somewhere. What drives our actions reside mainly in our subconscious mind. I think you get the idea. Understanding how we are built psychologically is a precursor to knowing that the legacy of slavery bears an imprint in the nervous systems of everyone in America today.
Looking back to moving forward, maybe a new horizon is coming into view. On this horizon is a blank page, of sorts, and as we start to formulate ways to do things differently, new answers begin to appear and fill this blank page. A whole new way of being emerges. We take this “better in us” and bring this “better in us” into the present to shape the future. As we do so, we begin to co-exist with our autopilot.
Let’s start. Take a look at the some of the FACES OF HURRICANE KATRINA 2005. The fact that police officers gunned down those who were fleeing for survival, speaks to the conscious of all blacks in America. That was then. This is now, the death of Trayvon Martin. What’s the difference in racism then and now?
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