A Glimmer of Hope
Will Biden's message of unity bring America back together?
Yes, as long as we understand the work ahead of us. Don't expect everybody to come on board. That all or nothing attitude will stand in the way of moving forward. It will take all of us who are ready to change the harmful outcomes of the past four years to do our part.
An example of what needs to change is in an article I read from the Associated Press.
Some expect President Joe Biden to bring a unifying tone now that he has been inaugurated, but say that alone won't be enough to bring unity. How the people react will be key.
Jonathan Jones' front-row seat to what happens next is his restaurant that is decorated with Black Lives Matter signs and art near the Oregon State Capitol. Epilogue Kitchen and Cocktails has been vandalized by a white supremacist. One day, police showed up as Jones and his friends were being accosted by neo-fascist Proud Boys. The police at first confronted Jones' group as if they were the threat.
“There’s not a person who stood with me that day who didn’t think that they might die,” Jones said. “And the most awful part was not knowing if it was going to come from the police or from the Proud Boys.
Democracy Delayed
This is from Amanda Gorman' s poem The Hill We Climb she read at today's Inauguration. It gives us hope.
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
And this effort very nearly succeeded.
But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
It can never be permanently defeated.
As I wrote this post, the sun came out.
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