What's Going On?

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.  Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.” 

 - Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

 

I just watched the news.  Not much good on there these days.  I don’t know how to describe what I’m feeling.  But a song by Marvin Gaye is playing over and over in my troubled mind. 

 

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on

In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today

(Al Cleveland/Marvin Gaye/Renaldo Benson)

 

What, really, is going on?

 

 

Currently reading : Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated By Rene Descartes Release date: October, 1993