Hearts have evolved for a very long time even if it doesn't seem that way at times. Thirty years ago when I was driving as a young black woman who didn't realize the dangers of bald tires, and the importance of placing a dime inside to check the tire tread condition. I'll never forget driving on a Michigan highway in the snow, and ice when I spun off the road into the gulf between the east, and west lanes. After spinning in a circle a few times, and stopping abruptly backwards, with an angel on my shoulder on the roller coaster ride, it seems like within seconds a white man was there to see if I was ok, and towed me out of a dangerous position, equipped for anything in Michigan weather, and sent me on my way.
There have been increasing tensions with white, and black on both sides of the opinion scale about police, and disturbed citizens actions toward mostly young black males, and recently innocent church goers. But disturbed people with, or without authority are a smaller percentage of the population that bask in feature stories. In viewing the wrongs committed always remember there are good people on both sides of the growing equation.
Remember abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Remember the Morris Dees www.splc.org, the Anderson Coopers who spoke truth to power during the Katrina episode of our collective concious, and ever since, even if he occasionally has an outrageous sense of humour. Don't forget the Chris Matthews of MSNBC who forgets the color of someones skin, because he's listening to their words, the big hearted Joe Bidens of the world who spout poetry, and tie emotions to public service while wearing shades, and most of all the first responders who actually protect, and serve. Scientific studies show there's still more good in the world than bad.
Don't ever forget the good guys in the eye of the storm. Maybe these guys can raise some flags, and bring some outdated flags down from their perch of an oppressive background.
Some of us have undoubtedly been hurt by racial attitudes. We've all been helped out by a Good Samaritan of another ethnicity on the road, especially in the Midwest. Follow your heart in whatever avenue you're travelling in the human condition. Together we stand. Divided we're lost.
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Ambassador Andrew Young ~ "There's not problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
Song: If I Had a Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary
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