A Conversation Guide To Racial Reconciliation In America
We can no longer be passive in our treatment of equality and racism in America. Their reality is before us daily. Regardless of where you live, who you are, or where you work, you will be brought face to face with this struggle and ongoing dialog in one form or another. It is your duty to handle these issues, charitably with love and respect lest you facilitate the burning of our known world. Put your pride and preconceived notions of race and racism to death and allow them to be born again with a fresh perspective. We can not afford any lackluster participants on this road. For better or worse, all of society must participate, as we all participate in the economy or traffic laws. Even if you try to avoid it, your avoidance itself will be recognized as a form of participation. Avoidance, contrary to popular belief, is far from being neutral, as it serves to bring about only negative outcomes. Refusing to move while an avalanche is rushing towards you does not mean it will not hit you, but rather it ensures that it will hit you and bring you down in the process. Likewise, a lackluster or neutral approach to the tension in America will only bring about adverse outcomes both in your personal and public life. Chaos, disorder, and suffering are the rules, while peace, love, and order are the exceptions. As exceptions, to the rules, they require active participation to bring them into actuality. They are not principles entirely natural to humanity. Thus if you wish to bring peace to the areas of racial tension and inequality, you must actively pursue them. The road ahead is long and fraught with many treacherous pitfalls. Nevertheless, we all must persist in the incremental pursuit of justice, love, and peace, for the sake of ourselves and future generations.