I couldn’t believe what I had heard.
“We don’t have black people over to our house…we have too much expensive stuff.”
It doesn’t matter who said it, but it was said just last year in 2014 to my husband. Now I’m probably not surprising you with this, but I’m a white woman and I’m happily married to a black man…in the south.
I know as a country we’ve come a long way. And I know just a few decades ago, Fred would have been punished maybe even killed for looking at me the wrong way.
But we still have a long way to go people. Fred and I have had a lot of conversations with all different types of people and so many people can agree that our country still has a long way to go, but there’s a problem.
People don’t want to talk about it, or think about it.
They think the “black card” is being played too much. And in some instances it is. But I think my husband has it right when he declared enough is enough we all have common ground as human beings. We can take a stand and decide enough innocent killings, enough ridiculous comments — let’s stand up together and talk about what others want to ignore.
We have common ground. We have more in common than we think we do and we can’t pythagorasandthat.co.uk/buy-clomid continue to let the color of our skin stand in between us. We can’t let it stand in between the change we can make, in between the sisterhood we can experience.
We have common ground. We have love. We have the ability to take action.
After the killings, the riots, the unnecessary destruction and violence, my husband decided he wanted to stand up and do what he could to make a difference. After all, we have two beautiful bi-racial children and we would rather they not have to deal with this.
Why am I telling you this? Why am I writing about something I wouldn’t normally address?
Because we all need to take a loving look at our place in this world and realize some things are closer to our heart than others, and they demand our time and attention.
What big ideas and real change are waiting around the corner for you? When will you stand up?
It’s never too late to get started on the legacy you’ll leave with taking action on the things that matter most to you.
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