Come Together

Here we are in the season of "peace on earth, good will toward men". Yet, we continue to avoid the honesty of understanding, of compassion, of love for each other and a direct unbiased dialogue on the controversies of race relations in this country. 

Until we understand and come forward and talk openly and discuss our fears, hopes and dreams in a candid, non-defensive way will we open the floodgates of understanding and the rational perspectives of love. 

Until we understand that we are cultures more than colors we will begin to break this horrific barricade that divides us. This is not the world I   envisioned for my children and grandchildren. Life threw a curveball. Those of my age demographic were supposed to be the last generation to know these kinds of racial iniquities. 

There is no integrity in keeping our heads buried in the sand when it comes to understanding cultures and people; what inspires us, what hurts us. One man's hurt, should never be another man's pleasure. One man's ignorance should never beat touted as tolerance. 

The wounds that divide us are the decadent human stains of our nation. These are atrocities that we can never take back. The past cannot be changed, but the future can be what ever we want it to be. 

Based on the events that have happened in our country that continue to go unchanged, we can never create the future that we need to create unless we have an open and clear discussion about what divides us and we really listen. As long as we remain divided  through controversies we will never have authentic peace.

We have become a nation that sleeps through our controversies. We ignore our controversies by covering them with a frosting of continued ignorance only to be repulsed by the stench that it creates. This is why our divisions do not go away.

It shouldn't be that a major disaster has to occur before we allcome together and realize that we are all part of one race, the human race. The reality is, that none of us are all one ethnic "thing". We are all mutts in the kennel of life and are all

related.

Our only race issue should be the human race issue. Our understanding of our differences should be expounded upon by 

opening ourselves up to understanding the diversity of our 

cultures. Until we understand these diversities, understand and acknowledge them with clarity and really listen to each  

other instead of skimming through the dialogue, only then 

will we become one.