I have been occupied elsewhere for a time and have missed a few eventful days blogging.
There are still so many prejudices out there today. It is difficult to know how to cope. Fifty years ago today on the 14th May 1961, the first Freedom Riders bus was fire bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protester were beaten by an angry mob. This clip contains an account of a witness to that event, who was 12 years old a the time it happened. It gives one some hope that despite the miasma of race hatred in the atmosphere, some children are seemingly unaffected by it.
There is not much else to add to this. Thinking is a lot better than belief without basis. Thinking requires thoughts and ideas with which we can examine beliefs. To believe without thought is to believe without basis which is the definition of prejudice.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, wrote: " Thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas” and "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
KEEP THINKING
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