unbelievably, our culture will stand to be the contradiction in terms yet again. we boast mlk's dream that man be judged "not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character"...and then what do we do??? in one inaguration day...we elevate a plain and simple man to god status...why?...because of the color of his skin.
it's all over the media...
unreal!!! and head-shakingly ironic!!!! we are still defining (and celebrating) the measure of a man by something other than what our standard should be..."who" he (or she) is.
and i totally get that it is meaningful in the sense of how far we've come in history...but to make this guy the antithesis of the "dream"????
how small!!!
do people not get what mlk's dream was? that "the content of his character" would be considered far above and beyond race, faith, factions and on and on and on.
and so, while we've celebrated the victory of skin color equality, we completely ignore the intolerant separation (on ALL sides) between genders, religions, denominations, parties, groups, classes...which, in truth, are far more accurate encapsulations of the fullness of what the "dream" refers to...oh ya, we've come soooo far.
the broadness of the "dream" continues to be so unfortunately misunderstood and narrowed...so off point.
strange, strange, strange...
1 comment:
You're on to something here. Develop it and publish it for a broader audience...maybe Time or Newsweek's "My Turn"...
Martha
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