February is Black History month. What the heck is that? Elon Musk recently advised that it is "ok to be white."
Apart from being tone deaf, being white in society has much more to do with mind set than skin color. There is a divide which is exacerbated in pubic by a dismissal of history. Make no mistake, colonial, religious and political oppression has led us to where we are today.
Any honky whitey that does not feel a least a twinge of guilt is responsible for perpetuating a systemic bulwork that simply needs to be fixed. Society has proven to be resilient and resistant to any attempts to prevent splitting and lumping. The barnyard is as intact as ever.
It still is a jungle out there. This means we must continually remind ourselves of our history, as painful as it might be and find new and creative ways to find reconciliation. Some have cited calls to action, others restitution but on a practical day to day basis it is simply the acknowedgement that wrongs were done, must not be forgotten and at the very least we owe respect, appreciation and brotherhood if not love to the colourship.
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NASA pilot Victor Glover CLAPS back after being asked what it means to be the first black man to visit the moon: “It’s the story of humanity, not black history, not women’s history, but that it becomes human history.”
There is a dynamic tension in society which we pretend to ignore between genders, between races, between urban and rural, between east and west, english and non english, jewish and non jewish
Black history is a reminder but not a cure for the ills of humanity. We simply must learn to get along.
I appreciate the thoughtful reply.
Guilt, the gift that just keeps on giving, drives the change that has occurred. I agree, things are better but far from good.
I live in Ward 13 where King, Ottawa's first Black councillor is praised for his DEI and incumbent now once but largely ineffective in most meanful ways.
I don’t know if you’re being cynical or serious..Whiite people shouldn’t feel guilt. You could say any race sometimes doesn’t care about the other..Everything of what happened in the past is true but shouldn’t be on us now..There’s also a lot of good..The writer sort of has the tone that nothing‘s changed(if that’s what I’m reading)That’s simply wrongSo much is over corrected now and trying to wipe out the good things and disparage the past as well..If we’re really all equal then we don’t need to specifically target people to show that everybody’s different..We can celebrate our different cultures and accomplishments but not to do in such a way that blames everyone—especially whites—for the past.