[Thespiritexpress] Focus on the "Why" not the "What"

[Lydia Ruby Shepard]

Always good to get different perspectives--thanks for sharing those two videos.
My point is that George Floyd was tortured/murdered by the very people that are to protect all of us.  This time was once too many and it ignited a movement.  It didn't occur to me to check if he had a rap sheet and it doesn't matter--no one deserves the treatment that he got.  He became a symbol.  It was time.  I was sad that the "movement" found it necessary to make him into a hero, especially for his wife and kids.  It must be very confusing for them.   Bless them and bless us.


Lydia

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Here a different  narrative about racially related police brutality from a black woman... with numbers and statistics...
and she is very passionate as well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPfoEvNJ74
Viktoria


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How antiracism hurts black people- perspective of John McWhorter academic and associate professor at Columbia University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT2rlJe9cuU

V

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Enough is enough ~ !!!! ~ how much can these people take is what I’m seeing.
Minneapolis has been in constant ongoing conflict/protest w/police brutality.
~~~~  we’ll be needing a real revolutionary approach to take a hold here.
I am never a fan of destructive violence ~  tho’ 400 yrs + of oppression and cruel injustice with no end in sight can fuel a lot of fires for sure.

I say buckle up our seat belts ~ !!! ~~~~~~~ the chaos and desperation is just getting started.
~m.🌟

Real generosity towards the future
consists of giving all
to what is present.

Camus


On Jun 7, 2020, at 10:41 PM, Lydia Ruby Shepard via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org<mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:

Thanks for forwarding this clip, Ron.  I am almost shaking in my boots.  Very much affected by her pain, honesty, rightful indignation, clarity, reference to how when blacks were so succesful in those two places I had never heard of, how these were destroyed by whites.  I am learning anew about asking "Why", not "What" and the monopoly game--masterfully illustrated.  I felt like I was drowning, gasping for air.  Fortunately I'd also just listened to Obama and other young leaders, which left me with some hope.

Lydia
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~~~~~We are just coming out of a week of incredible unrest across the country ~~ I just heard that the rioting and looting is slowing down but that does not mean there are as yet any solutions to unrest or changes in the mindset of racism~!   All of this is happening in midst of the Pandemic that has spread around the World ~~~ and if this is not enough there is political unrest as well~.

~ This clip below is exceptionally powerful and to the point ~~~  I know that all of this has sent currents of unrest throughout the World with thousands of protesters in cities filling streets~.  There are very good reasons and this woman tells it like it is from a very deep emotional state~~~~This is a deep issue in my cellular tissue as well ~~~ I marched for civil rights in the 60’s in support of Martin Luther King like many others ~~ I did civil rights work in the South and narrowly escaped with my life in Macon County, NC when the vigilante committee came to teach us a lesson…

~ I’m wondering how everyone is doing ~~ are you effected~?  What are you feeling~?

This woman cuts to the core of systemic racism.

How Can We Win<https://youtu.be/sb9_qGOa9Go>

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