segregation: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
As I drove home from practice this morning I was listening to ESPN Radio. Elle Duncan was a guest on the Golic & Wingo show to provide commentary on DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson and in particular Senator Kelly Loeffler who have all made headlines or are trending because of recent utterances each has made.
Ms. Duncan made some interesting and insightful comments about the situations involving the aforementioned people. Her fervor for racial and social justice was front and center throughout. I appreciate when people speak their minds, especially when it is obvious they have well formed opinions whether I personally agree or disagree with the opinions they express.
On DeSean Jackson Ms. Duncan opined she felt naivete was at least partly to blame while still holding him accountable for quoting Adolph Hitler on anything. She further chastised Jackson for blaming one oppressed group for another groups oppression. While I believe the word oppression is both misused and overused in today's world, I understand her general overall position and even agree with it.
Then as she segued in discussing Senator Loeffler's comments concerning Black Lives Matters and LGB's Ms. Duncan committed a like transgression in inferring advocation for something I feel certain she is actually not in favor of.
As I listened to Ms. Duncan lambaste Senator Kelly Loeffler and suggest Sen Loeffler should be forced out as a part owner of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream because of views that have offended portions of the Black Lives Matter and LGB communities within the WNBA it occurred to me that Ms. Duncan was promoting segregation.
Because Sen. Loeffler has differing views from a suggested majority of WNBA players she should have to sell her ownership stake in the Atlanta Dream?
Why?
And more to the point, what good would that do?
Black Lives Matter is already an extremely divisive movement. Officially it is an admittedly Marxist organization financially supporting Democrat Party presidential candidates. Unofficially the nomenclature has been adopted by racial equity and social justice advocates as a call to action, at times violent action. Still others have embraced the nomenclature as an apologetic and cleansing rallying cry to align themselves in support of the black community. And there are those on video who are using BLM as a tool to promote segregation which is in and of itself yet another divisive decision surrounding the promotion of a purported noble cause.
How can we ever heal and progress if we are segregated from opposing views?
All white conservative ladies to the right side of the room, please.
All black LGB ladies to the left side of the room, please.
Now co-exist in society, but do not associate or interact with one another. Just stick to your side and your opinions.
Isn't that a recipe for insanity if doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is insane?
I am once again taken aback by how intolerant of tolerance those seeking tolerance can truly be. It appears to me what is often meant by "tolerance" is "it's my turn now." We've done it your way, not we're doing it my way. Role reversal. And that is precisely what it sounded like Ms. Duncan was advocating for this morning. Southern white Democrats were pro-segregation - they wanted the whites kept separated from the blacks. Today Ms. Duncan advocated for setting apart the mostly black pro-BLM WNBA players from a white conservative owner. This sounds more like revenge than reciprocity, doesn't it?
There is an opportunity at hand to educated and learn, but that can only occur if we interact with open minds, open hearts and a commitment not to change others, but to understand others. Only then can change begin to occur and gain momentum. It's not so much "you have to change to think the same as I do" as it is "I have to change so I can understand you." One of these we each have personal control of, the other we do not.
As I drove home from practice this morning I was listening to ESPN Radio. Elle Duncan was a guest on the Golic & Wingo show to provide commentary on DeSean Jackson, Stephen Jackson and in particular Senator Kelly Loeffler who have all made headlines or are trending because of recent utterances each has made.
Ms. Duncan made some interesting and insightful comments about the situations involving the aforementioned people. Her fervor for racial and social justice was front and center throughout. I appreciate when people speak their minds, especially when it is obvious they have well formed opinions whether I personally agree or disagree with the opinions they express.
On DeSean Jackson Ms. Duncan opined she felt naivete was at least partly to blame while still holding him accountable for quoting Adolph Hitler on anything. She further chastised Jackson for blaming one oppressed group for another groups oppression. While I believe the word oppression is both misused and overused in today's world, I understand her general overall position and even agree with it.
Then as she segued in discussing Senator Loeffler's comments concerning Black Lives Matters and LGB's Ms. Duncan committed a like transgression in inferring advocation for something I feel certain she is actually not in favor of.
As I listened to Ms. Duncan lambaste Senator Kelly Loeffler and suggest Sen Loeffler should be forced out as a part owner of the WNBA's Atlanta Dream because of views that have offended portions of the Black Lives Matter and LGB communities within the WNBA it occurred to me that Ms. Duncan was promoting segregation.
Because Sen. Loeffler has differing views from a suggested majority of WNBA players she should have to sell her ownership stake in the Atlanta Dream?
Why?
And more to the point, what good would that do?
Black Lives Matter is already an extremely divisive movement. Officially it is an admittedly Marxist organization financially supporting Democrat Party presidential candidates. Unofficially the nomenclature has been adopted by racial equity and social justice advocates as a call to action, at times violent action. Still others have embraced the nomenclature as an apologetic and cleansing rallying cry to align themselves in support of the black community. And there are those on video who are using BLM as a tool to promote segregation which is in and of itself yet another divisive decision surrounding the promotion of a purported noble cause.
How can we ever heal and progress if we are segregated from opposing views?
All white conservative ladies to the right side of the room, please.
All black LGB ladies to the left side of the room, please.
Now co-exist in society, but do not associate or interact with one another. Just stick to your side and your opinions.
Isn't that a recipe for insanity if doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is insane?
I am once again taken aback by how intolerant of tolerance those seeking tolerance can truly be. It appears to me what is often meant by "tolerance" is "it's my turn now." We've done it your way, not we're doing it my way. Role reversal. And that is precisely what it sounded like Ms. Duncan was advocating for this morning. Southern white Democrats were pro-segregation - they wanted the whites kept separated from the blacks. Today Ms. Duncan advocated for setting apart the mostly black pro-BLM WNBA players from a white conservative owner. This sounds more like revenge than reciprocity, doesn't it?
There is an opportunity at hand to educated and learn, but that can only occur if we interact with open minds, open hearts and a commitment not to change others, but to understand others. Only then can change begin to occur and gain momentum. It's not so much "you have to change to think the same as I do" as it is "I have to change so I can understand you." One of these we each have personal control of, the other we do not.
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