I haven’t said anything in so long on Facebook because every time I do, I get beat up. But at times, for whatever reason, what is given me to say is so strong that I know that if I don’t say it I will explode, brains everywhere.
My heart, my spirit, my soul aches so badly today, right now. It only takes about five minutes on Facebook and reading posts for me to completely fall apart these days. I can’t take it. I can’t take how hard-hearted and closed-minded people are.If people want to tear down a statue of a bad person, a slave-owner from the past, why do you care? They aren’t trying to erase history, they’re trying to keep history from repeating itself.
Why would YOU want to stand for making a hero out of a villainous person? That’s the real question.
Thirty years ago, most of us didn’t have any clue who most of these people were who have these statues. I’ve talked to people this year who have NO IDEA what the confederate flag actually stands for or why it’s hurtful. Please take some time to look on the internet or go to the library if you prefer and read up before you stand up for something. Bottom line for me, if a statue hurts a victim of the holocaust or a person of color or some other nationality, tear the bitch down. People before concrete.
What it is is, people are terrified of change. And they are terrified to admit that maybe they’ve been wrong about something. I have so much respect for people who can say, hey, wow, maybe I’ve been wrong on this subject. Maybe I’ve been blind or ignorant of some facts or information or maybe I just really have not tried to understand someone else’s pain. Lack of empathy and compassion is literally killing us, people. Quite literally.
I’ve changed so much in the last twenty years and I am still changing yearly weekly, sometimes daily. I feel very differently today than I did thirty years ago, but why? Because I opened my mind to learning new facts and information. I got to know people who are different than me, people from other countries, other backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.I decided my growth was more important than my pride or ego.I admit I was wrong about a lot twenty years ago, ten years ago, last week. I am continually learning. Which makes it so hard to sit and watch people spout out ugliness, hate and ignorance at each other, simply because they fear change, they fear admitting that they’ve maybe been wrong.I’ll ask one thing of anyone and everyone who reads this, don’t make a fast angry reply but rather sit with yourself and think. Pray if that is something you do. Meditate. Look deep within, and ask yourself the hard questions. Have you put some THING above people? Have you had a hardened heart? Have you been cocooned in your little world for so long that you have absolutely zero compassion for other people? People who may have had experiences totally different than yours?Have you lacked empathy? Compassion? Love?? Have you had tunnel vision? Have you believed only what your political party has asked you to believe for the last FOREVER??
If you cannot think with introspection and love and compassion at a time like this, when the hell could you?? Likely never.
If you will always be closed-minded, insist on ignorance and hate, please remove yourself from my Facebook feed, I beg of you.
People first. PEOPLE. Love. Understanding. If that’s not where you’re at, I do not need to be anywhere near you for a time, because I cannot take it. Take yourself off and join the White Supremacists and the other whack-jobs mucking up the world right now.Those of us who love and care, we don’t need you. We’re too busy loving, learning, growing, and getting over our damned selves.
Peace Out