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G-Pop watches.
He observes.
He listens to the cacophony of opinions colliding in levels of frustration and disagreement.
Meanwhile, the world continues to careen toward calamity.
There are two abiding misconceptions which hold us prisoner to our own understanding:
- “More is always better”
- “There has to be a little bit of what I believe in everything I do”
While we seek for a destiny, the world itself actually evolves, discounting the notion that there is some sort of pre-determined path. Evolution was meant to be our friend. It grants us the opportunity to see change coming and preface that transformation by writing our own rendition of the future. But we have to escape the fallacy of thinking that doing more of “our thing” will make situations better.
For instance, there is an abiding foolishness that proclaims the answer to “mean” is to be “more mean.”
That the solution for violence is more violence.
That the best way to handle the quandary of gun control is to sell more guns.
Lying is overcome by developing our own sophisticated lies.
We also contend that religion just needs more religion.
Prayer is faulted by not having a hefty enough amount of supplication.
We also believe that bigotry can be quelled by more bigotry.
War with more war.
Fear with more fear.
Selfishness by touting our own nationalistic chest-thumping.
And stubbornness–yes, stubbornness.
Stubbornness is the abiding notion that “there must be something of what I presently believe in what will happen next.”
It doesn’t work that way.
It is not only the “survival of the fittest,” but also the survival of the wittiest. Get your wits about you.
As we sit in the ashes of forty-eight hours of tragedy, we must understand that all the parties involved, including the victims, had guns. It didn’t help the two victims who were murdered because…
Because someone did not question his lingering training.
If you’re a policeman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, or Minneapolis, Minnesota, you are on your way to a call or you’ve picked up somebody for a busted tail light. and you realize that they are of a different color, before you climb out of your car to approach them, you need to take a half a second to ask this question:
“What prejudice is there in me that might make this situation difficult?”
And if you’re a black person in this country who is fully aware of the abiding racism, you must ask yourself:
“What can I do to remove the apprehension of the white police officer who’s about to confront me?”
It is not an issue of being fair, but instead, gaining the wisdom of the serpent. Because the serpent is quite capable of biting–but also is extremely vulnerable to being stepped on and killed. So the serpent slithers away from trouble.
G-Pop realizes that we will not get anywhere in this country until we question what we do, instead of assuming that doing more of it will solve the problem.
It begins in a small way–when we acknowledge that the person who refuses to let us into the flow of traffic is not really a “goddamn-son-of-a-bitch.”
Just doing more of what he or she was trained to be.
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