Black History Month
Thinking about February….as I find it the longest -shortest month of the year (hence a lot of time for rumination) I am reminded of the several different journalistic pieces that I had written over my school years to celebrate black history month. From this, my thoughts led to thinking about the “current state of our country”.
Despite our national differences that – unfortunately, some of our ‘leaders” seem to want to draw more attention to…not less, I am reminded that I was raised in a household and a community where I was taught that one of America’s greatest attributes is our diversity of opinion, race, religion, etc. From our differences, we draw strength, develop new ideas and creatively solve problems that many others can not overcome.
Our freedom, our liberty is a blessing albeit, I am afraid, a somewhat fragile one. We should use this blessing to build each other up and not tear each other down.
Maybe naively – this is how I was raised to think and view our world. I am an optimist. I hope others can and will join me in optimism. We must persevere in this as well as the relentless pursuit of equality of liberty. RRS.
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