Social Justice for all because all humans are of inherent worth and equal

Powerful words indeed, but so lacking in this current time of extremism from the right (Trumpism, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, most Republican leaders)

and the left (Marxist-CRT leaders, BlMers, Antifa, many Democrats).

Both sides engage in endless name-calling, demeaning, and bullying. And vandalism, violence, propaganda, and destruction...

Very strange that Donald Trump even calls his leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, an s.o.b.! Tragically, these nationalistic leaders and the rioters in the capitol building and elsewhere behave like the racist segregationists who attacked nonviolent Blacks in the 60's and 50's and before.

Radical Democrats such as Rashida Tlaib attack all law enforcement as being racist who intentionally kill Blacks. They argue for the defundng and abolishing of the police! Blmers yell obscenities, vandalize, and physically attack officers. This generation for unknown reasons has adopted the extremist views, hateful speech, and violent actions of the late 60's by POC.

What ever happened to the reconciling ways of Martin Luther King, the early SNCC leaders, Bayard Rustin, John Lewis, etc.?

As an old radical leftist from the early 60's (early member of S.D.S.), I am baffled by the obscenity-heavy hateful speech by the right and left. Both sides seem driven by intolerance, lack of empathy, stereotyping, and downright lying.

A few words from King that this generation needs: "Nonviolence means avoiding not only eternal physical violenc but also internal violence of spirit..."

"The non-violent approach does not immediately change the hearts of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them a new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality."

And, I remember in contrast the fervent leftist leader and atheist of our S.D.S. Group at the University of Nebraska. He spent months in the South working for civil Rights in 1965, was a passionate advocate for human rights, justice, and racial reconciliation.

But unlike many leftists of the present, he talked rationally, didn't use negative propagandistic slogans, didn't verbally attack and name-call, didn't fill his speeches with obscenities and demeaning statements against those of the opposite side.

I suppose one could say that the S.D.S. leader was something of a hero to me.

Social justice doesn't come by pride, propaganda, hateful verbal attacks, obscenities, vandalism, violence and rioting.

Justice comes by concern, reasoned explanations, careful reconciling words, listening, empathy, kindness, altruism, generosity, helpfulness, and nonviolence.

In the Light,

Dan Wilcox