A Call for Change

The brutal murder of George Floyd has shocked and shaken the world.

Finally the anti-racist movement has taken a stronghold, and the marches and demonstrations feel more poignant and more meaningful than anything that I have ever experienced before.

May our voices now be heard, particularly the voices of our black brothers and sisters.

Whilst it is incredibly important to keep up the momentum that has been started, the change we want to see can only start from the inner depths of each and everyone of us.

But how easy is that going to be when our everyday language goes against what we are striving for?

Borrowed from a TV interview of the greatest of the greats, Mohamed Ali and UK chat show host Michael Parkinson, Mohamed Ali talks with humour about what is unquestionably a real problem. If you have 5 minutes it’s worth to watch the full video :

He suggested that he was curious as to why Jesus was white? Why at the Lord’s supper were the men all white? Why are angles white? Why was Tarzan, the King of Jungle in Africa, white? Why does the President live in the White House?

Why is it that everything that is (supposedly) good is white? But that everything that is bad is black?

The ugly duckling was the black duck.

The black cat brings bad luck.

And if we are threatened it is blackmail.

Do we even realise that our prejudices are in the very words that we speak?

Words are powerful because they create our thoughts. So it is going to take massive awareness for us to make the changes we want to see in the world.

If this movement is going to last it is everybody’s responsibility to take steps every day towards what we want. New habits need to be planted, ingrained.

So what are you doing today to create the new beginning? (it’s a rhetorical question).

A Call FOR CHANGE

What are you doing today to create the new beginning?