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Learning To Cope With Tumultuous Change
Life amid protests and pandemic is challenging, but don’t get mad, get calm
Times, they are a changing
Everywhere around you, the world is changing.
Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are retiring, at long last.
Monuments to slave owners and confederate “heroes” are plummeting to the ground. Even Jesus, depicted as white, is coming under scrutiny. Gone with the Wind and Song of the South productions and themes are being called out for racism, and canceled in some cases. Chokeholds, no-knock warrants, and lethal force are being eliminated from police department procedures. Unfurled flags and being furled for good. Corporations, ever fickle with profitable trends, are changing products, slogans, and practices. Street names, and even some city names are slated for revision.
Globally, demonstrations against racism, and for promoting pride among all human beings, are still unfolding with protests and sometimes, clashes, in hundreds of cities and towns.
Even Bob Dylan has a new kind of music out, and as he so famously and prophetically said in that last tumultuous decade, the 1960’s, times they are a changing.