How many years
slavery raping rights
before laws catch up?
How many years
fears and prejudices persist
until humanity catches up?
(For Reena’s Exploration Challenge:Juneteenth. Image mine.)
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We must do what we can and realize the just like with every other type of systemic brokenness we need a higher power to help us walk the path to recovery.
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…and a higher focus. Thanks for your input.
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Yes indeed. Time to elevate ours eyes and hearts.
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There has to be deliberate and transparent change! We can’t keep sweeping these issues under the rug. Archaic mindsets need not be in today’s world.
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Yes! Well said.
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Thank God, looks like some of us are catching up, hopefully our voices will be heard.
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I hope so too!
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How many years, indeed! Do we all have the will to change?
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Oh, I hope so! For our children and grandchildren’s sake.
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I hope and pray we do!
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One of the ironies for me is that hatred and willful ignorance take so much psychic energy to maintain and perpetuate.
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I agree. I think of that often – what’s in it for the hater? Surely peace and the reward of expanding one’s circle is worth being open.
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You’d think so, wouldn’t you?
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I wish there were answers to these questions. But in the meantime we need to keep asking and insisting on answers that trigger change. Time is of the essence.
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Absolutely. Well said.
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Thanks.
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Welcome
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Reblogged this on Reena Saxena and commented:
Juneteenth …. by VJ Knutson
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Humanity has been the slowest to catch up. Perhaps, we are all guilty to a certain extent when we nurse a bias against certain elements or personalities, not necessarily racial.
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Good point. We cling to ideas – right or wrong.
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I appreciate your word VJ. 400 years and it’s still going on. When is this country going to wake up and change? Hate should never be tolerated. 😢
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Is it hate or ignorance? Thanks Christine.
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Unfortunately ignorance teaches hate 😢
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Did you know today is National Indigenous eoples Day in Canada? It kind of relates. Not slavery per say but certainly discrimination and theft. I wrote a post on it yesterday.
Well written V.J.
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What we did to our indigenous peoples equates with genocide. I didn’t note the date, but yes this applies. Thanks Jen.
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How many years indeed….?
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Too many it seems to me.
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It seems to me as well.
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