TURNING A CORNER?

I heard yesterday on a credible TV station that ¾ of the nation is in agreement with the demonstrations being conducted across the country regarding Police Brutality.

A few years ago a book was written and I believe a documentary on the GREATEST GENERATION, authored by the great Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News, a highly respected TV journalist. The book targeted my parent’s generation, the ones that lived through the Great Depression and World War II. It honored these people who withstood the horror of unemployment, dissension, and the rigors and dangers of war.

Tom Brokaw

Today’s generation may be on the cusp of greatness. We see every hour on the TV a crowd of people, whites and blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, with a common thread, they are Americans, who are angry and protesting the treatment of their fellow Americans, the ones who are male, black, or Hispanic, who get stopped by the law and brutalized usually to the point of death. They all want it to stop! Most of us do. I read an email that someone leaked on a certain unnamed supporter of a politician who supports the protestors and the writer of this email revealed all the hatred and ugliness that still is out there by about, 25% of Americans, stating he would no longer support the politician because he was sick of the N!&*#’s and their complaining. This is what still needs to be overcome, this is still the virus we need to fear as much as the Covid-19 virus. If you disagree with this assessment, I suggest you take some Lysol in a glass of milk and write to me in the morning.

But for those of us who may not have seen years ago, this the advent of a new epiphany of understanding, it bodes well for all of us. What this does is remove a large part of discrimination, blindness, ugliness, and hate that exists for centuries from the first slave ship that arrived in Louisiana so long ago.

We as a people have always been prone to greatness, correcting ourselves as we exist throughout the centuries as a nation, seeking civil justice and protecting the freedoms of all men and women. Our Constitution was written in black and white, colorless and blind, like Lady Justice, we can keep the blindfold on her, but we are smartly removing it from ourselves. Maybe now we can eliminate to a great degree the poverty and discrimination that has plagued our communities into abject despair, free up the chances for more educated citizens and new cures for diseases and finally remove, the blindfold of discrimination! Maybe this will be the greatest generation ever!