The FBI has traced & identified several juveniles responsible for calling in more than a dozen bomb-threats to Black colleges since the beginning of February’s Black History month. Neo-Nazi groups recently gathered in Atlanta, GA & Orange Co, FL, harassing & attacking passersby on the street; some Neo-Nazis appeared on 1/22/2022 at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, passing out flyers with pictures of two doctors, condemning them for giving “preferential healthcare policies for non-white patients”, in response to those hospitals trying to amend their storied-practice of institutional racism. This incident resulted from a Fox Network, Tucker Carlson story, and was parroted by Donald Trump at a recent rally, where Trump also said, “IF I run again in 2024, and IF I win, I will give pardons for the Jan 6th people” (insurrectionists). There have been countless brutal attacks on Asians, and numerous threats to synagogues & churches. These kinds of threats & attacks have escalated recently. We must not allow domestic terrorists to takeover America. We must fight back with justice, restraints, education & compassion. From whence do these terrible urges arise? Why do some parents seem more concerned with banning books than guns in our schools & society, displaying more fear of their children learning, than in their dying? We must neutralize this FEAR with knowledge, acceptance & radical LOVE.
The authoritarian urges bubbling up from the boiling cauldron of fearful-humanity are similar to the first half of the 20th century. Are we doomed to repeat a damned history, enslaving others by our own twisted willpower, trafficking, torturing, keeping others bound, imprisoned, starving & homeless? Book-burnings as occurred in 1930s Germany, is now happening in 21st century America! Private-prison-enslavers, Klansmen, neo-Nazis, racists; we are teaching our children to hate, and WE, are the only ones who CAN CHOOSE to CHANGE; we can re-form Hate with ‘the universal solvent’ of Love. We must simply apply it. We can strive to bring our better angels to the forefront of our minds, hearts & lives. We can CHOOSE tolerance, allowance, even embracing an appreciation for others’ cultures & traditions. What will it take for us to do so & HOW? There is room for different tastes in music, dress, literary & religious thought. The Bible says, in Acts 17:26, “God hath made of one blood all nations to dwell on the face of the earth”. Jesus repeatedly urged us to “Love one another”, and He was the embodiment of Radical Love. Let us TRY to emulate that.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Feb 17 2022
TEACHING LOVE; HOW?
The FBI has traced & identified several juveniles responsible for calling in more than a dozen bomb-threats to Black colleges since the beginning of February’s Black History month. Neo-Nazi groups recently gathered in Atlanta, GA & Orange Co, FL, harassing & attacking passersby on the street; some Neo-Nazis appeared on 1/22/2022 at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, passing out flyers with pictures of two doctors, condemning them for giving “preferential healthcare policies for non-white patients”, in response to those hospitals trying to amend their storied-practice of institutional racism. This incident resulted from a Fox Network, Tucker Carlson story, and was parroted by Donald Trump at a recent rally, where Trump also said, “IF I run again in 2024, and IF I win, I will give pardons for the Jan 6th people” (insurrectionists). There have been countless brutal attacks on Asians, and numerous threats to synagogues & churches. These kinds of threats & attacks have escalated recently. We must not allow domestic terrorists to takeover America. We must fight back with justice, restraints, education & compassion. From whence do these terrible urges arise? Why do some parents seem more concerned with banning books than guns in our schools & society, displaying more fear of their children learning, than in their dying? We must neutralize this FEAR with knowledge, acceptance & radical LOVE.
The authoritarian urges bubbling up from the boiling cauldron of fearful-humanity are similar to the first half of the 20th century. Are we doomed to repeat a damned history, enslaving others by our own twisted willpower, trafficking, torturing, keeping others bound, imprisoned, starving & homeless? Book-burnings as occurred in 1930s Germany, is now happening in 21st century America! Private-prison-enslavers, Klansmen, neo-Nazis, racists; we are teaching our children to hate, and WE, are the only ones who CAN CHOOSE to CHANGE; we can re-form Hate with ‘the universal solvent’ of Love. We must simply apply it. We can strive to bring our better angels to the forefront of our minds, hearts & lives. We can CHOOSE tolerance, allowance, even embracing an appreciation for others’ cultures & traditions. What will it take for us to do so & HOW? There is room for different tastes in music, dress, literary & religious thought. The Bible says, in Acts 17:26, “God hath made of one blood all nations to dwell on the face of the earth”. Jesus repeatedly urged us to “Love one another”, and He was the embodiment of Radical Love. Let us TRY to emulate that.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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