by Contributing Writer, Dr. Monica Crooks
We are taught to avoid the subjects of Politics, Race, Religion, and Sex, but those topics are what life is all about. To make meaningful progress in any form, we must be open to discussing these topics honestly and open-mindedly. Agree to listen with the intent of understanding rather than with the intent of responding.
What we all witnessed recently is the 401-year old festering putrefaction of white supremacy erupting like a pustule from the belly of our nation. No one condones the murder of a defenseless man face down in the street with the knee of another on his neck as we watched his spirit leave his body. If any fool slaughtered a dog in the street in like manner this country would come unglued and rightfully so. George Floyd’s lynching galvanized the entire World against historical white supremacy, institutionalized racial injustice, police brutality, excessive force, and our profit-driven criminal justice system. There are much more noble, sincere, hard-working honest police than there are obnoxious, disgusting, immoral ones, but that does not excuse the masses of Black people murdered for no reasonable cause, or their murderers from facing significant consequences.
I cannot fail to say something about all of this. Too many people fought, suffered, and died to allow me in my perma-tan the opportunity to become a dentist and own practice so I can use my God-given talent, to lovingly care for my patients. I am thankful for the massive, worldwide protests. I am thankful for the representation of ALL races in those protests. Along with the 5 European American women I met at the BLM-Black Lives Matter march, I/we have started a Facebook page (CLICK HERE – None Of Us Can Breathe-Police & Criminal Justice Reform Now) which is a compilation of U.S. history none of us were taught in school. Why hidden? Because if children were taught the true history they could not grow up proud of this nation. As adults, we need to take steps to learn the reality, as only then can we understand how and why we are in the appalling situation we find ourselves in. …ALL of us regardless of which color we elect to associate ourselves with should learn the reality of the root cause of this nonsense. Only then can we finally stamp it out!
Who knew a Congolese man was housed in the monkey cage in The Bronx Zoo? Who knew there were at least three government-sanctioned massacres of so-called “Black” communities that slaughtered over 300 people on average each time? Who knew the Union Troops erected a Concentration Death camp in Natchez, Mississippi where hundreds of emancipated people met their deaths of starvation and disease? Knowledge is power; understanding is resolve.
CLICK HERE as you are encouraged to learn more about critically pertinent history; succinctly delivered by Dr. Joy DeGruy Lear.
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