Talk to me
about xenophobia, racism and corruption. Talk to me about religion, capitalism
and education. Talk to me about better control, stronger law enforcement and
immigration. Talk to me….
I have just
one deep question that is going to shake you to the very roots of your
complacent being.
“What is the root cause of our
predicaments? What is the fundamental issue?”
Take off
your self-righteous coat and all your masks that you show the world. Strip off
your pretences that everything is well and good on your side of the fence, the
side from which you are throwing stones. Let down your guard. BE VULNERABLE!
Xenophobia
is not good. I am speechless and shocked that 2015 years after Christ
was butchered on the cross we are still murdering people in cold blood. I am deeply shaken that humanity (if we can still call ourselves that) is still doing this to
one another. Why are
we not learning from our forefathers’ and mothers’ mistakes?
I will tell
you why. It is because we blindly deceive ourselves that what our ancestors did
is separate from us. IT IS NOT. Wake up humanity. If there is an ounce of
humanness left in your icy blood, wake up and look inside yourselves. Everything that you and I are, is as a result of all the selfish actions
and murderous doings of our ancestors (not mine, not yours, but OURS).
Just look at
a tree and observe the quality of its fruit. If the fruit is good
then the roots are receiving great nourishment from the soil in which it is
planted. Poor fruit
signals poor quality from the source/the roots. The proof is in our roots.
Don’t hide
behind your masks and point fingers at all those crazy people acting cold
heartedly. Be courageous and confess your brokenness. Look at your roots. We are ALL in this mess because we are all rooted in our broken pasts. We are not separate from it and we
cannot put a Band-Aid over it as we entertain our fantastical notion of
separateness.
MY family, MY religion, MY culture,
MY Nationality, MY ego….. This is the root we need to rip out. We need to stop our criticisms, judgements,
self-righteous beliefs and self-serving thoughts and plunge ourselves into the
plights of others as though they were ours. THEY ARE OURS.
I was
listening to a caller on 702 last week. She was having her say about why she
was ‘pro’ the xenophobic attacks. She was advocating that the
government send all the foreigners home.
I LISTENED….
She told her
story of poverty and hardship, and about her struggle to survive in the
squatter camp where she has endured relentless break-ins, some of which were by
immigrants. She spat her rage and frustration at her awful plight, hounded by
thieves when she has so little …. And I started to cry. I cried for the helplessness
and unfairness of it all. I wept for those who have everything stacked against
them as they struggle to bring home barely enough to put food on their table. I
ached for the destitute and needy who placed their hopes in the broken promises
of a self-serving government that are intent on feathering their own nests. No
wonder this lady’s angry. No wonder her absolute desperation, and no wonder, in
her fight for survival, her seemingly callous support of xenophobia.
The answer, my friend, is in education, NOT THE EDUCATION of History, Geography, Science and
Maths. The education we are all crying for is the ‘How to Love unconditionally
and How to Forgive our pasts’.
Forgiveness and Self-love are
teachable skills which are not to be found in any school curriculum.
What an oversight. What we are teaching
humanity is not humanity at all.
Until we learn to love and share in
an interconnected way, the whole of humanity is doomed. We cannot plant new seeds in infertile and
poisonous soil.
Look at your
roots. Therein lies the answer to all our world’s problems.
This week, cut
back and prune your roots. Cultivate new beliefs that serve our highest good.
All my love
Nicolette Photo from Black-eyed Peas ‘From Roots to Fruits’ album
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