By thinking about something or someone critically does not mean that one is being negative nor insensitive nor judgmental.
It simply means that you are using your intelligence.
Taking their or your experience and coming to a critical or logical conclusion or sometimes a logical answer.
It can mean that you are evolving past “Group Think”, where everyone thinks the same thing and thinks others in their group should think the same thing.
It means you are opening the door and your mind to diversity of thought.
People who are and have been discriminated against, especially minorities and women should welcome, encourage, even insist on diversity of thought. Not everyone thinks like you.
Diversity of thought led some white people to see the light when it came to slavery, Jim Crow and voting rights.
Minorities must insist on diversity of thought because it’s true freedom and the one main reason that we even have freedom now.
Therefore, we cannot set imaginary timelines and rules on when it’s proper to seek solutions for preventing children from dying because of negligent adults, negligent parents.
Adrian Peterson sought no such imaginary grace period himself; he kept right on playing football.
Some of the same loud voices who proclaim some sort of imaginary grace period for Adrian Peterson to mourn a child he didn’t know are some of the same voices who immediately yelled the loudest that we must do something about guns and violence as soon as tragedies like Newtown or Aurora happened.
They sought no grace period when 20 children were gunned down; so, whether we like it or not, uncomfortable or not, we must take responsibility for our own stuff.
Otherwise, we are just as responsible when the next child is lost.
End the Finger Pointing: Don Lemon Says ‘We Must Take Responsibility for Our Own Stuff’ was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
