This post is late, and it will have to be short. Disorders of several sorts have beset close family members in recent days, and as a result a certain level of personal chaos reigns. When such things happen in our personal lives, we may feel as if we've been run over.
But actually being run over is much, much worse. We have glimpsed recent new horror (including synagogue congregants, holed up in fear while Nazis marched outside in American streets) in Charlottesville, VA, where "all sides" did not contribute to the public disorder in equal measure, no matter who desperately wishes to believe otherwise.
Anger does beget anger. Confederate monuments and statues all across the country have become targets in reaction to the white supremacists in Charlottesville.
In such an environment it's difficult not to wonder if the world has gone mad--or if perhaps we have. Patience is hard to find. Perspective is hard to find. Just as it's hard to keep one's head in a mob, so it's hard to keep one's eyes on core values.
But that is our current national test.
IMAGES: Many thanks to CNN, photographer Ryan M. Kelly of The Daily Progress and AP for the photo of the horrific impact of a car into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville, to Los Angeles ABC Channel 7, Pablo Martinez Monsivais and AP for the photo of President Trump making a statement about Charlottesville, and to The Blaze and WNCN-TV for a pictorial article about the destruction of a confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina.
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| Photo by Ryan M. Kelly - The Daily Progress/AP |
But actually being run over is much, much worse. We have glimpsed recent new horror (including synagogue congregants, holed up in fear while Nazis marched outside in American streets) in Charlottesville, VA, where "all sides" did not contribute to the public disorder in equal measure, no matter who desperately wishes to believe otherwise.
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| AP Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais |
Anger does beget anger. Confederate monuments and statues all across the country have become targets in reaction to the white supremacists in Charlottesville.
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| Image source: WNCN-TV video screenshot, via The Blaze. |
In such an environment it's difficult not to wonder if the world has gone mad--or if perhaps we have. Patience is hard to find. Perspective is hard to find. Just as it's hard to keep one's head in a mob, so it's hard to keep one's eyes on core values.
But that is our current national test.
IMAGES: Many thanks to CNN, photographer Ryan M. Kelly of The Daily Progress and AP for the photo of the horrific impact of a car into a crowd of peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville, to Los Angeles ABC Channel 7, Pablo Martinez Monsivais and AP for the photo of President Trump making a statement about Charlottesville, and to The Blaze and WNCN-TV for a pictorial article about the destruction of a confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina.
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