Not really coffee for me Hopper... who proclaims that 'mornings are for coffee and contemplation' (from the hit Netflix series Stranger Things). Yes it's Monday....again. This time some of us (who work for the State or Federal agencies, and also schools) have Monday off.... yay...lucky you. I know, that was a little on the snarky side. My husband who works in corporate America has to be at work by five this morning, as does the rest of corporate America who don't observe the Martin Luther King holiday. For those of you who get to sleep in, how are you spending your day? Me? It don't have to report in to anyone today seeing as I am my own boss (owner and operator of Altered Whimseys Studios). It's just lil ole me and today I am going to spend my day reflecting on social justice, and how it impacts the lives around me.
I have friends who are being discriminated against because of their sex, friends that are denied their rights because they are LGBTQ, friends denied the right to work because of the religion they practice, and family denied the right to practice the religion of their choice in their house of worship because they are LGBTQ. Martin Luther King Day isn't just about racial rights, it's about human rights, for us all. The right to exist in the country of our birth; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are being slowly hacked away by our current administration. I'm not one for political posts, I'm just writing about what I've been a witness to since the current administration came into office last year.
I have friends who are being discriminated against because of their sex, friends that are denied their rights because they are LGBTQ, friends denied the right to work because of the religion they practice, and family denied the right to practice the religion of their choice in their house of worship because they are LGBTQ. Martin Luther King Day isn't just about racial rights, it's about human rights, for us all. The right to exist in the country of our birth; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are being slowly hacked away by our current administration. I'm not one for political posts, I'm just writing about what I've been a witness to since the current administration came into office last year.
art by Nancy Trunzo, Oakland, CA.
Today I will pray for those fighting the injustice, those being held back just for the color of their skin, just for what religion they follow, just for what sex they were born, or what sex they chose to be, and who they chose to love. Life is life, love is love. How can we say this is America, home of the free? But I can say because of these people...Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk, and many other activists... the list is long, that America is the home of the brave. Soldier on my friends and be safe in whatever form of peaceful protest you chose to participate in today.
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