by Patricia Britt
Charlottesville, VA showed our flaws once more as Americans, that left us to wonder once more, where is the love, last month in August?
Clearly we need more love here, and everywhere else with the eclipse of reason, and soul over materialistic shades of obsession.
A bird's feather for Heather Heyer, forever remembered in the shadow of regressive thought patterns that took her life, when her right to free speech, and assembly was violated, not by an authority in this case, by another citizen in the shameless baggage of a lynch mob mentality suddenly in the afternoon.
We need to educate with the truth so that people, particularly youth aren't so messed up, and isolated with hatred they act in a blind rage of irrevocable destruction.
Yet American heroes have achieved, and bonded through eyes, spirits, song, philosophy, agricultural innovations, microscopic business, and grand commerce in spite of physical torture, tight laws, and loopholes weaved with regard to slaves.
Abolitionists, the written word, military enlistment, politics, transportation, technology, and will power incrementally advanced blacks, who out of necessity to preserve family status i.e. togetherness, a spec of dignity, or a spiritual choice to communicate or understand the oppressors motives, beyond economics in order to achieve equality, rebuild, and enhance the American spirit as a result. This is the quilt we're composed from as Americans.
As each set of people with various ethnicities arrive in America across oceans in chains (African - Americans), or in search of Manifest Destiny to inhabit Indian, and Mexican land, that created the gumbo that exists today in this gorgeous landscape of the "Real McCoy." We became one, however with a few mutations.
Charlottesville poses the question, is this violent deterioration reversible for safety, spirit, economics, and our legacy as a nation.
We the people recently stood strong together through Texas's "Hurricane Harvey," Florida's "Hurricane Irma," as a united people, not to earn a gold star, it was to keep our fellow American's alive, and above board. If we can show the same support for the brave state of Puerto Rico hit by "Hurricane Maria," and every state hit by storms infinitely while we reach across borders to help as we always have as individuals materially with concern, empathy, hope, and love we will meet every challenge always.
With humans purity equals an open heart, which attracts love, and happiness when free to pursue lofty values minus interference, in an atmosphere of determination to be just for all, because it is statistically the natural state of the heart, and the goal of our, free within reason, Democracy.
To substitute obsession with freedom is a constitutional concept. The right to fall in love is a remarkable concept evolved in the vital words of the constitution that means love is worthy of protection, across any lines of ambiguity.
Vulnerability lends strength to weather storms is our truth. When one can choose love we grow, evolve, and renew some of the creed of our constitution instead of a no win scenario that doesn't represent our initial ideals.
We need some dreamers, artists, pragmatists, statisticians, scientists, healers, construction workers, teachers, lawyers, humanitarians, and every day people to perpetuate positive change.
Salvation is within each of us, when love owns the moment, and we protect each other, however we can, especially children we live truth.
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