If only those who were involved in the treasonous act that was the Secession and Civil War were not pardoned. Giving the Confederates a Get Out of Jail Free Card legitimized their belief that their cause was actually righteous and worthy.
Isn't it funny how pardoning bad behavior often leads to more extremes in bad behavior – I give you Roger Stone and Michael Flynn as contemporary examples.
If only those who were involved in the treasonous act that was the Secession and Civil War were not pardoned. Giving the Confederates a Get Out of Jail Free Card legitimized their belief that their cause was actually righteous and worthy.
Isn't it funny how pardoning bad behavior often leads to more extremes in bad behavior – I give you Roger Stone and Michael Flynn as contemporary examples.
And punishing bad behavior with bad behavior doesn’t work either. I give you corporal punishment in schools. Paddling a child for hitting another child is a bit of its own insanity of reason.
“Justice” as decided by men over centuries is wrought with prejudice and fear.
I celebrate today, Jeri and Daria, because love and reason has given me many good friends of color and opportunity to create community among diversity in the classroom. As a child, I was not taught to hate people of color but had no opportunity to be with children who looked different than me. All white suburbs, diverse in ancestry but not in skin color. I just saw white majority because it is what I saw. As a young adult, that is when I cultivated relationship with people of color because the opportunity was physically there. And to my surprise even today, with all I know of history, I am always grateful that a black person wants to cultivate friendship with me. So I celebrate Juneteenth today and know that today, NOT yesterday, it is possible, probable, and right to do so. The color of skin can no longer close our eyes to the Light of love and reason. That is fake news created by man only for greed. And the cat is so out of the hat.
Unitad for all of us on this day. Celebrate, and, if you weep, may they be tears of gladness for the circle of unity on this day.
If only those who were involved in the treasonous act that was the Secession and Civil War were not pardoned. Giving the Confederates a Get Out of Jail Free Card legitimized their belief that their cause was actually righteous and worthy.
Isn't it funny how pardoning bad behavior often leads to more extremes in bad behavior – I give you Roger Stone and Michael Flynn as contemporary examples.
And punishing bad behavior with bad behavior doesn’t work either. I give you corporal punishment in schools. Paddling a child for hitting another child is a bit of its own insanity of reason.
“Justice” as decided by men over centuries is wrought with prejudice and fear.
I celebrate today, Jeri and Daria, because love and reason has given me many good friends of color and opportunity to create community among diversity in the classroom. As a child, I was not taught to hate people of color but had no opportunity to be with children who looked different than me. All white suburbs, diverse in ancestry but not in skin color. I just saw white majority because it is what I saw. As a young adult, that is when I cultivated relationship with people of color because the opportunity was physically there. And to my surprise even today, with all I know of history, I am always grateful that a black person wants to cultivate friendship with me. So I celebrate Juneteenth today and know that today, NOT yesterday, it is possible, probable, and right to do so. The color of skin can no longer close our eyes to the Light of love and reason. That is fake news created by man only for greed. And the cat is so out of the hat.
Unitad for all of us on this day. Celebrate, and, if you weep, may they be tears of gladness for the circle of unity on this day.
The feral cat is definitely “out of the hat”! Loved this, Christine!💞
One could argue that Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon gave the presidency an aura of invincibility, even from the law.
Yup, two prime examples!