I was sitting here and the alert on my phone went off. It was to remind me that we are under a curfew tonight, to stop or at least slow down the protesting of another person being killed by a police officer.
This has become an epidemic in our world. Both the killing and the protesting. It’s okay to protest and to say what is happening is unjust and unhealthy for us as a society. But when protesting leads to destroying have we lost sight of what message we are trying to convey?
I think I am more worried about the killing in our society than I am about protesting. Have we decided that life has so little value that we feel it is okay to take away someone else’s life? When did this become the norm? Does this make people any better than the person that just lost their life? NO! all it does is create more hurt and hatred and we don’t need that.
For me, it was Uncles, for others it was Fathers and still others it was Sons that fought in WWII against the hatred of the Jewish people in Europe, all it took was one person with that hatred to start that spread and it spread like a wildfire out of fear. You joined with the haters or you were prosecuted like the Jewish people. Horrible choice. Hate or be hated.
I would have thought that we learned from these stories of people hiding in the woods, hiding in churches, hiding in attics so as not to be killed for no reason other than their beliefs. But here we are 80 years later, and we are still hating each other. Let’s take that a step further and we are still fighting a Civil war based on the color of skin. STOP! The color of your skin, your belief, your sexual preference, is not a reason for hatred, for killing, it is a reason to love you.
We need to learn to embrace our differences, love those that are different than us, not fear them. I would hope that if we have learned anything from our past it is that fear is liar and it clouds our judgement.
Please know that I am always a safe place, I do not judge based on the color of your skin, your sexual preferences, or your beliefs. I will listen, I will help where I can, I will hug you and cry with you and most of all I will love you.
Until Next time.
Juli
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