This post so represents my thoughts this week as we see further suffering from the evil that is racism!! Thank you, Idealisticrebel!!
I have been monitoring the murder of Freddie Gray and I was glad to see that the protests were peaceful, until yesterday.
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “Violence is the language of the unheard.”
I want to share that I have personally marched and picketed up to 1995, when my husband died. It was a very difficult time for me, after his loss, and I could no longer use my energy as I once did. While protesting in Harrisburg, PA; Washington, DC; Cleveland, OH; and Erie, PA, as it happened, the marches and protests I participated in were peaceful.
Black Lives Matter
As my readers know, I am a pacifist. I believe in Peace, not war. What does war get us? Nothing.
I had a conversation last night with a very dear friend, and we were discussing Freddie Gray’s murder, and the protests that were beginning, at that…
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