This week has brought a lot of tears. Some of them due to the fact that I am an emotional wreck on week's like this. Others because of my actions or the actions of those around me. The thing is that I could easily find myself hiding in my room away from everyone and everything. Just going out into the world when I had work or stop by the store for this or that. I could keep quiet when I see posts being made that I don't agree with. I could live my life not impacting anyone or anything, just going through the motions day in and day out.
That's not how I believe that I was meant to live my life. That is not what I believe that I was created for. I see so much hate in this world. I see so much making fun of this or that. Labeling all republicans this or all democrats that.... and it makes my heart hurt. Labeling all people with certain skin color one way, and all people with certain skin color another way. People sharing posts that are talking about how great the confederacy was. How the confederate flag was a Christian symbol. I just can't do it anymore. I can't sit on my computer and be okay with all of the hate.
Here's the thing you don't have to agree with everyone. We won't actually ever all agree. But to claim that people need to just be okay with how things are in the world, that a statue is history, and tearing down a statue is going to somehow damage that history? What? Claiming that black people shouldn't be upset because of a confederate flag or statue. Frankly you are wrong if you think that. And here's why....
There was a time not too long ago in our country when white people thought they were superior. Do you know what? There are actually still people who feel that way. There are also black people that have had to deal with the bruises, and damages done by their ancestors having spent so many years enslaved just because of their skin color. The statues of confederate men, mean nothing but making a hero out of someone that believed owning another human being was okay.
Are we really going to teach the generation coming up that we can't take down statues of people that should not be heroes, because it is going to ruin our history? Are we really going to teach them that our white history is more important than the good of our country.
Our country is bleeding. There are people so angry right now that they are willing to do whatever it takes to get their voices heard. You know why that it? Because we haven't been listening. We are stuck in whatever world we think we live in, only trying to take care of ourselves. I'm done letting my country bleed, letting my neighbor feel like nothing.
Do I think that there are people of every color with hate in their hearts? Ofcourse! But you know what, there are also people of every color with love. There are also people of every color waiting to be heard, waiting for you to reach out a neighborly hand and listen to how they feel.
My goal is to be a neighbor.....and to not get on FB as much. It's just breaking my heart to see the hate that people don't realize they have.
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