I am in no way condoning what was done in any way but I am not naïve enough to believe that this is a new occurrence. If everyone in our society that has ever said the "N" word as it is now referred to would drop dead we wouldn't have enough people left to carry on life as we know it.
Let's be grown up here and realize that offenses have always been among us and they aren't going anywhere so grow up and accept life as it really is. Mankind has always made mistakes and we will continue to do so as long as we are breathing. But we cannot continue to dwell on these mistakes or we will remain in the muck and mire of our own unforgiveness.
I am not saying that we should deliberately offend, we should work on having a deeper respect for our fellowman no matter where they come from or what their background. We all have two arms, two legs, a head and hopefully a brain within it to help us work on our problems together so why do we want to dwell on our differences instead of working together as humans.
We are teaching our children to be wimps and be offended at everything anyone says to them instead of teaching them to be strong and realize that it's not words that make you what your are but it's what you know you are inside. When the adult world makes everything bigger than it really is it becomes more than the children can handle but if they butt out the children will work it out themselves.
You know God sends us all here in good shape most of the time but when the adults get in on the act it doesn't take more than a few months until that sweet little human becomes a monster that no one can stand. Whose at fault here, the little baby, I think not. We need to take a good look at what parenting really means but that's a subject for another time, now back to the subject at hand.
As long as we have our past for dinner every night our future will be poisoned and we are unlikely to ever get anything worked out among ourselves.
God never intended that we all be the same if He had we would be. Each of us should take pride in who we are and realize the solution to our problem is a common RESPECT for one another. With RESPECT and FORGIVENESS we can repair some of the damage that has been done to our society.
When you think about it each of us is given (if God grants us mercy)around 80 years of life and if we go back and study any of those 80 year periods we will see that within each period the rules were different, things change, people change, laws change, society changes. We as a society cannot keep holding future generations responsible for the wrongs done by the people that lived before us.
Each period of time is going to make its mistakes and there will never be anything that we can do to change that. I agree that the mistakes made in the past should make any human hang their head in shame but it doesn't mean that we should pass this history on to future generations as ammunition to destroy the future. This is just as bad as what our forefathers have done and where is the justification in that.
If history is presented in all it's truth we will find that mankind has been abused all way down the line. All peoples not just a chosen few and it was wrong, my heart aches when I read or watch a documentary on TV about such things and I wonder how can human beings treat their own kind in such ways but they did, they do and they will.
I would love to say that I feel we are on our way to healing, forgiveness, and progress but I have lived many years now and can see no signs of this miracle taking place. Forgiveness must start in the hearts of men and women of every nationality around the world and then be the ingredient that we instill in our children and grandchildren. When we have them at our knee telling them of the horrible abuses done to their ancestors please don't forget that the soul to whom you speak will use your words to form their opinion and actions for the future, make sure that forgiveness is included in your history lesson.
How sad that we have been a society for over 200 years and we are still on the same threshold of a future where no forgiveness is welcome. God help us because if He doesn't we are doomed and God only helps those who help themselves.
Granny here, just saying!
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