Thank you Miles for your reflection on 911 and the ensuing years. My memories of political violence go back to JFK and MLK. We are broken as a nation. Let's hope we can glue the pieces together and unite on principle once again.
I've seen asks for solutions on how we can heal the divisiveness. The pain so many of us are feeling over what is happening to our country grows ever more palpable.
When elected leaders cannot come together over this, but, instead, call for more hate, it seems to me we've hit bottom. Healing seems an impossible goal.
Appreciate your perspective and the connection to our current cultural and political climate. Part of me wonders if we aren’t all part of the fallen from Sep. 11. I feel like that’s when in many ways all Americans began to feel unsafe in our country and in our world. James Baldwin’s quote (“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”) seems especially relevant here. I wonder if the ripple effects of Sep 11 contributed to the dynamics that have led to where we are today. And I wonder at what point we will begin to deal with our pain, individually and collectively, so that we can stop the hate and rehumanize ourselves and others.
Thanks Miles for not letting us forget and your reflection on what happened on 911 24 year’s ago today. Our country is definitely broken. Without having caught the killer and piecing together the motive, Trump along with his sycophants and supporters are stoking the flames and are pouring gasoline into the fire. Their words are not those of healing but serve as a call to action and will only lead to violence.
Even when JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X got killed the amount of vitriol was not this bad. There were pockets especially after Malcolm X and MLK got killed but we didn’t have a president who ramped up the hate speech and calls for violence like we see today! I am not sure America can come back to normal from this. I am extremely frightened!!!
A horrible but realistic thought. As Walt Kelly’s Pogo Possum put it in a different context in 1971, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”.
My collection of Pogo books reminds me constantly of human foibles, missed opportunities, and downright apathy to act when our political leaders most need to do so.
Thank you Miles for your reflection on 911 and the ensuing years. My memories of political violence go back to JFK and MLK. We are broken as a nation. Let's hope we can glue the pieces together and unite on principle once again.
As you said, we must not forget who we once were. This is just another sad day in years of sad days.
Thank you Miles. Please stay safe.
Yes, please.
I've seen asks for solutions on how we can heal the divisiveness. The pain so many of us are feeling over what is happening to our country grows ever more palpable.
When elected leaders cannot come together over this, but, instead, call for more hate, it seems to me we've hit bottom. Healing seems an impossible goal.
Appreciate your perspective and the connection to our current cultural and political climate. Part of me wonders if we aren’t all part of the fallen from Sep. 11. I feel like that’s when in many ways all Americans began to feel unsafe in our country and in our world. James Baldwin’s quote (“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”) seems especially relevant here. I wonder if the ripple effects of Sep 11 contributed to the dynamics that have led to where we are today. And I wonder at what point we will begin to deal with our pain, individually and collectively, so that we can stop the hate and rehumanize ourselves and others.
Thanks Miles for not letting us forget and your reflection on what happened on 911 24 year’s ago today. Our country is definitely broken. Without having caught the killer and piecing together the motive, Trump along with his sycophants and supporters are stoking the flames and are pouring gasoline into the fire. Their words are not those of healing but serve as a call to action and will only lead to violence.
Even when JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X got killed the amount of vitriol was not this bad. There were pockets especially after Malcolm X and MLK got killed but we didn’t have a president who ramped up the hate speech and calls for violence like we see today! I am not sure America can come back to normal from this. I am extremely frightened!!!
Yes, censorship by shooter.
A horrible but realistic thought. As Walt Kelly’s Pogo Possum put it in a different context in 1971, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”.
My collection of Pogo books reminds me constantly of human foibles, missed opportunities, and downright apathy to act when our political leaders most need to do so.
Thank you for sharing your story.
We must remember the tie that binds us …,
We will build a new picture from different puzzle pieces representing who we have become, and who we really want to be.
It will take a long time to do that new vision.
We need to learn to work together again
Right now, there are so few common areas to work on to begin the assembly.
How do we find our areas of agreement/commonality?
How will we build - based on our basic principles- are they still Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness?
Should we start by adding Equal Rights formAll, which the founders were unable to accomplish, but we must do?
❣️🇺🇸 Thank you Miles Taylor
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