Otherness
Otherness assumes harm against me. Otherness leads to misunderstanding. Otherness exudes fear and violence. Otherness leads to rightness/ better than Otherness inequality and ungodliness. When will the other become human? When will the other become the divine? When will the other become enough? Today I've been thinking about the allies of the Civil Rights Movement. Not those who were at the forefront like Martin Luther King, Jr, John Lewis, and Rosa Parks, but the allies who put their lives at stake in different ways. The likes of Anne McCarty Braden, J. Waties Waring, and James Reeb, who took a stand and began working against the systemic injustices. They opened the polls to persons of color, defied real estate practices, and marched alongside MLK. Men and women who felt propelled to do the unspeakable. Putting their careers on the line. Pushing against systems that were engrained in one's foundational beliefs. Drawing a line in the sand at the cost of friends and fam