The following is my opinion. It is not a judgment on any individual.<\/p>\n
The election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States is not, as some would have it, the end of racism in our country. We all hope it is the death knell, but dying organisms stink a lot until you bury them.<\/p>\n
America has never dealt with its inherent racism. It merely stitched the wound closed without treating it, leaving it to fester. This election opened the wound — hopefully to clean it out and let it heal — but the deep infection is exposed, and it smells awful. It is up to each of us to pray for the healing, rather than reseal the wound in its untreated condition.<\/p>\n
For the first time, I have REAL hope, instead of merely wishes, that we can heal America. If we can do that, think of what we can do for the rest of the world. If we do not, I would rather refrain from thinking about what we will do TO the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
I am reminded of something I learned while working in wastewater treatment in my youth. Most treatment ponds tend to attract vegetation and other life. Since the vegetation tends to grow roots through the sealing layer of the pond, they present a problem, in that the contents of the pond could infiltrate the local groundwater. So for years, people in the business of wastewater treatment would poison these plants. What they discovered was that dying plants suck up many times more oxygen than living ones, and most times the whole pond and all the life in it died from not having enough oxygen in the water to breathe. A dead treatment pond provides no treatment, it just sits there smelling like something died (which it did). Some states finally passed laws prohibiting this practice… others did not.<\/p>\n
If there was ever a time for not only thinking outside the box but destroying the whole damned box, this is it.<\/p>\n
I ask for your prayers for everyone. Whenever any one person is not equal, there is no equality. And there is SO MUCH we could do together.<\/p>\n
I hope I’m preaching to the choir. And I further hope the choir takes the word out into the world.<\/p>\n
Hugs,
Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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