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Majority Views Plus Minority Needs Eventually Explode
To navigate the mine-field of rage over racism we have to tread carefully
Not in a comfortable zone
Many of us are strolling through mine-fields these days.
To reach a fair and honest November election that ensures civil society, means watching our progress with alertness and extreme caution. To create a beloved community requires that we enlist the former racists to become anti-racists, instead.
No one has said that it is not a big ask.
In the greater hierarchy, it is just a small minority, who don’t want change. We should not forget this. The current explosion in the streets over race and justice was inevitable. Indifference to the conflicts, especially on the part of most people just too busy, and too uninformed, to notice, has shifted now to moral majority outrage over social injustice.
After many of us have effectively expressed our exhaled indignity with a collective: “It’s about ______ time”, we have work to do.
The biggest challenge remaining is whether leadership will read the room, read the writing on the wall, and read the majority will of we the people.
With all the extra time during pandemic lockdown, many people got a tiny taste of deprivation…