Bethann Hardison

Bethann Hardison Instagram – Good thought but in today’s climate that’s barely possible any longer.
My mind goes to the mass shootings of recent in the USA.
Being far away doesn’t change my emotional reaction to each one. One after another…
I wish our leader of the free world presented differently to his audience so it wouldn’t seem to be suggesting to take the law into their own hands. Or for some to think there is something to “take back” or for a “minority” to fear and need to cage and control.
It’s not easy to have a conversation with the leader of the free world, if you are not in agreement. That’s shown in WH news conferences, political rallies, meetings with opposing delegates. If a conversation that matters cannot be held on a world stage that others will see, what practice is being put into play for the “average Joe” ? What example is being practice to learn restraint, respect and to listen ?
So now, before even a conversation, someone drives a great distance with a gun to just shoot people they never met, let alone a conversation. They are reverting back to no tolerance. If it disturbs you then disrupt.
Be brave to start a conversation…You cannot have a difference of opinion, often the response is to attack not converse. Conversation that matter, ones that can get treated the same especially if you are courageous enough to have on any social media platform.
But that’s a dangerous sport.
Best to try it with intellectuals, students of academia, or children. In those cases you have a better chance of survival.
After all said, there is nothing better than having a conversation that matters. Walking away knowing some thing was heard, understood and perhaps a difference was made.
But it’s come down to “picking your battles” cause it depends on the “neighborhood”, who you are talking to. But no matter, be brave enough to share that point of view, that could help shift a community ultimately perhaps society. | Posted on 05/Aug/2019 18:05:17