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JDinTX's avatar

Do we need some aspects of the 60’s back again…. At least the truth-telling part

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Mike S's avatar

Maybe we all just need to accept the fact that we are not special and, instead, start treating everyone else as if they are??

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Peter Burnett's avatar

We are all far, far more than "special", we are EQUAL.

But we don't know what that means.

We don't know what that means, but my mother told me when I was 8, in 1948. And even if I couldn't understand her words then, she made me understand how deeply they mattered:

"We are all the children of the same God."

Even if that last word does not speak to you, the truth that it expresses remains unchanged. There are many ways of expressing truth.

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Diane Love (St Petersburg FL)'s avatar

Also,

We are all the children of the same Earth.

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Mike S's avatar

We are all far, far more than "special", we are EQUAL."

GREAT sentence. Thank you.

You don't need God to understand that this is, statistically true.

The mean differences between all our DNA are not much really. Greeen eyes or brown eyes are still eyes.

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Anne-Louise Luccarini's avatar

And more than that. This is where the Barger essay cut me to the quick: the tender description of places and things loved and known for centuries by ALL the people born and bred there.

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JDinTX's avatar

My brain just went into a tizzy, thinking of the magats as being anything but deplorable.

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Mike S's avatar

:-)

That's how white folks in LA feel about blacks though, right?

So, you know what you have to do. :-)

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