Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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Real and Not Real: On Border and Divisions


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I have to make a confession...

I've been holding up the publication of this month's journal version of transform. for almost two weeks now. and it's because I've had a block.

not an ordinary writers' block—which, while annoying, unproductive, and sometimes even painful, is generally unwanted—as that would be preferable to the block I've been having.

I've been having a heart-mind block.

I have found the thinking, choices, behavior, and resulting consequences of our people so incomprehensible at a heart level, that my mind has refused to put words to a phenomenon that seems beyond them.

when I say our people, I mean OUR people. all of them. the ones that every single human that ever lays eyes on this—from now until the end of time—have a relationship to:

- the people in the Tea Party - the people never invited to the Party - the people in Arizona (made up of lines) - the people of Arizona (made up of lineage) - the people (and wildlife) within the Gulf Coast - the people (and profiteers) far away from the Gulf Coast - the people in the White House - the people were thrown out of their house - the people of God - the people that own God - the people in Israel (that won't let up) - the people in Gaza (that can't get out)

with each upside-down turn of events, my heart has broken further and has threatened to take my mind with it because my mind wants to make sense of something that my heart knows full well it cannot.

and should not.

what I can do instead is try to sort out what is real and what is not. that's an illusion of sorts too, I know, but this is what I came up with:

Nine Things Real and Not Real

  1. we, the People, are divided by fear, lack of vision, and imagination is real.
  2. the so-called border that divides this land from the people we took it from by force is not real
  3. the horrific show of how deep this country's racism runs, masking itself as its very own Party of hatred, is real.
  4. the idea that a President of any race, color, gender, or creed can rise above and act beyond a corrupted system that put them there, to begin with, is not real.
  5. the toxic waste hemorrhaging onto the land from 5000 feel under the sea—laying waste to the life in its path—is real.
  6. the will to stop feeding off of "ancient hours of sunlight" and converting fossils into a fuel that drives death and destruction worldwide is not real.
  7. the cordoning off of nearly 1.5 million people like so much cattle that amounts to a New Millenium Apartheid is real.
  8. the resolve of America and the world to stop financing state-sanctioned war crimes and now international law breaches are not real.
  9. the deep divisions of our society, people, and the planet, based on the peculiar illusory constructs of race, class, privilege, supremacy, and superiority are real. and for this, we will all pay.

genocide is real. greed is real. destruction is real.

"illegals" aren't real. Mexicans aren't real. Americans aren't real. Muslims aren't real. Jews aren't real. fairness is real. justice is real. love is real.

People are real. —yours in truth, aKw

 

dedicated to all the people that show up for real.

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