Posts Tagged ‘perspective’
After emailing my community and posting here, I received a huge amount of feedback. Much of it was positive and thankful; others questioned how I could doubt the jury and due process.
It’s a complicated issue. The prosecutor has widely been regarded as not having done his job well (and even in August was named as historically siding with police, and his father was a policeman), and the grand jury has been put to shame by the American Bar Association. Plus, Blacks are 20 or 30 times more likely both to be shot and killed, and to be prosecuted, than white people.
Here are some links I’ve assembled through my own research and through the help of friends. I hope they’re of benefit.
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/25/7287443/dorian-johnson-story
http://www.newsweek.com/ferguson-prosecutor-robert-p-mccullochs-long-history-siding-police-267357
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prosecutor-faces-criticism-ferguson-case-27187809
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fy49SyK95E
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/25/7281165/darren-wilsons-story-side
http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/27/century-racist-policies-created-ferguson/
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b493e6c4d31beda32fdaf8e2d&id=73514e334b
http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/08/things-stop-distracted-black-person-gets-murdered-police/
http://qz.com/250701/12-things-white-people-can-do-now-because-ferguson/
I had a dream recently where I was watching a play – not terribly surprising, since I’m a theater creator, director and performer (my other hat aside from being a coach). In the dream, I had watched the play more than once, always from the same seat. However, for some reason I needed to watch it again – from a new angle. So went to a different seat in the theater – and it looked dramatically different! Some characters loomed larger than others, and it was a completely different experience.
When we change our perspective, we radically alter our experience. Sometimes this happens dramatically, through a life-altering event; other times, we have a gradual shift, for better or worse.
Action: Think of something in your life that isn’t ideal. Look at it differently – perhaps by literally going to a real location you don’t normally visit, and thinking about it there . Or, imagine how someone else might deal with it – perhaps someone richer or poorer, with different color skin, or from another country. Your ideas about the situation are solely that – ideas. A new perspective will give you some fresh ones.
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