RAWsome Mind: You Cant Stay Still On A Moving Train

Its gotten to the point where I do not watch the news anymore. It hurts too much, it angers me, and I don't believe anything thats being said. My stomach churns with disgust with every news article reporting the latest crimes against humanity and every video of political leaders spewing hate, fear, and disunion disguised as patriotism. The situation is maddening to say the least, and often I feel I have been transported into another time. A time I thought we had risen above. A time, I thought had passed me. 

When I was 10 my mother handed me a book about Ruby Bridges. For those who do not know she was a young girl in the 1960s who was selected to go to a formerly all white school in the midst of deseggretation. This is the same time when Dr Martin Luther King organized the long walk to Washington DC and Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus. I read this book with confusion and had lots of questions for my mother. 

"Why were people so mean to her? Why couldn't she go to school? Why does her skin color matter?" My mother answered each of my questions patiently with a heart full of love, doing her best to teach me to see past the surface of situations and beyond the skin color of people. I grew up being taught that ALL people are equal and it is our duty to ensure that it stays that way. I remember being sad that I wasn't around in the 60s to participate in the rallys, to stand up and fight against injustice. Little did I know... I would get my chance in 2017. 

. . . . . . you cannot stay still on a moving train, and eventually inaction becomes your choice of action.