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The Year of Understanding
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By Donna
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and Daniel
Melbourne
Halfway through the year,
2020 is destined to go down
in history as one of trial,
challenge, and heartache.
It would be foolish for us
to avoid addressing what’s
unfolding in cities across
America.
In recognizing the pain
and anger of the black
community, we can truly
begin to understand, and in
understanding, we can begin
healing. Regardless of color,
I wish we all understood. An
unarmed black man dying in
police custody is an outrage.
As a result, protests have
sprung up all around the
country. These protests
have been peaceful (for the
most part), multiracial, and
powerful.
Sadly, there is a small
criminal element intent
on hijacking the peaceful
protests for their own
ends. Let’s recognize the
difference, listen to and
validate the former, while
simultaneously identifying
and prosecuting the latter.
What does any of this have to listening. By validating. We
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Sometimes truly
understanding another
person’s perspective requires
a change in our thinking. I am
neither a black American, nor
have I suffered the outrage
that George Floyd’s family
has had to endure.
Yet, I have experienced
profiling and been judged
because of my physical
presence and who I appeared
to be. As a 6’5” women in
the 1970s while attempting
to succeed as an actor in
Hollywood, people often
approached me asking where
I had “had it done.” I was
confused. They assumed I had
had a sex-change operation
because I was too tall to be
a woman. On an emotional
level, I was devastated. I felt
less than.
In order to begin to
understand someone else’s
perspective, we need a
MindShift. We need to put
ourselves, so far as we can,
in the other person’s shoes.
Try to see the world how
they see it, hear the world
how they hear it, and begin
to understand how it feels for
them.
This is a simple first step
that is necessary to reach
understanding. We can never
truly know what it is like to
experience injustice while
feeling like we live in a
country that isn’t even ours
anymore, but we must start
can start by taking action that
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