July 19, 2012

white priviledge is something that "whites"

often take for granted.

As a white child growing up in the south during the 60's, I never knew what it was like to have to fear that I might be harrassed just for the color of my skin. I never had to worry about having to drink from a seperate water fountain or go to the back of the bus because I was "colored," or get my food at the back door of a resturant since I couldn't go in.

It wasn't until I was much older that I realized that I had a very "priviledged" life even though my parents were "blue-collared" workers. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be shunned for the color of my skin, but today,I certainly try to see it through different eyes. Many still don't. I'm not sure what brings someone to that point where they can "see" the plight of others, but I suspect it's a combination of how you were raised and "walking a mile in another's shoes."

March 21, 2012

I have no doubt that Zimmerman will be arrested

but it won't happen because of the Sanford Police Dept., or the DOJ finally stepping in, but because of the many who have risen up to this senseless and very sad murder.

Martin Luther King Jr., said:

" He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

MLKjr., would be very proud to see what is NOT going to be shuffled under the rug. I can't help but wonder if history would be telling a different story if more "good" silent people had spoken up years ago before the Civil Rights Movement.