So true. We must learn from history, both the good and the bad. And learn from what came in the past, not hide it. And we still need to work on DEI, not suddenly cancel these civil rights practices that we are not ready yet to begin lessening.
Having lived through and worked to promote Civil Rights and peaceful resolution of conflicts during my white, male, 1960's adolescence, believing we could really change the world in general, and American society in particular, it breaks my heart to have to acknowledge that Dr. Bernice King's quotation from her mother, at the end of the video, is absolutely true. Every generation has to learn it, earn it and win it in the context of their own times. For reasons I can neither really understand or explain, the cycle repeats continuously throughout history. The biblical Garden of Eden story does not report factual historical events, but it absolutely warns us that we cannot learn the difference between good and evil while living in a paradise.
So true. We must learn from history, both the good and the bad. And learn from what came in the past, not hide it. And we still need to work on DEI, not suddenly cancel these civil rights practices that we are not ready yet to begin lessening.
Having lived through and worked to promote Civil Rights and peaceful resolution of conflicts during my white, male, 1960's adolescence, believing we could really change the world in general, and American society in particular, it breaks my heart to have to acknowledge that Dr. Bernice King's quotation from her mother, at the end of the video, is absolutely true. Every generation has to learn it, earn it and win it in the context of their own times. For reasons I can neither really understand or explain, the cycle repeats continuously throughout history. The biblical Garden of Eden story does not report factual historical events, but it absolutely warns us that we cannot learn the difference between good and evil while living in a paradise.