Image Description: An American flag flies in the midst of debris and wreckage in Moore, Oklahoma after an EF5 tornado with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour tore through the Oklahoma City suburb. Public domain image.
There are times when you read a piece, and every single paragraph is a powerful expression of truth-telling. I want to pass along such a piece today:
America’s Optimistic Spirit is Killing Us Because We Don’t Know What Faith Is
by Chris Dela Cruz
I will lift just two quotes:
“These American coping mechanisms of super positive thinking, of ‘frontier’ sky’s-the-limit mentality, and optimistic framing have ill-equipped us to take a horrific pandemic seriously, to confront the realities of long-embedded systemic racism, and to actually use our dream-thinking where it could matter – to pool our resources to deal with an unprecedented economic disaster with actual far-reaching solutions that help people.”
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“And so we are left with thousands of people dead of COVID-19 without acknowledging that it doesn’t have to be this way, with a country that cannot even deal symbolically with our racist statues without federal stormtroopers kidnapping people in rental cars.”
Every single word of this,
Amen.
A good word is not always easy. This piece is a hard, good word that challenges us to the core. It tells the bad news as it is, and we need to wake up.
Smuggling Grace 