Lena Simmons

Canaan on Fire Lena Simmons

"You've qot to be taught, to hate and to fear, from year to year, ...to be afraid.. of people whose skin is a different shade...before you are six, seven, eight. hate all people that your relatives hate... drummed in your dear little ear, ..you qot to be carefully taught. (You've qot to be carefully Taught, South Pacific Broadway Show, 1958, Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein 11)"The shooting, and domestic assaults are the in-your-face- forms of power, privilege, and racial injustice. The insidious, and most dangerous aspect of racial injustice is the "carefully taught" Supreme Court judges, state and local judges, lawyers, state, federal, and local commission directors, city, local, state, and federal representatives and law-makers, superintendents of schools, school board representatives, educators, college presidents and professors, educators, commission members and other public policy leaders. These people are in the position to create policies and laws of racial injustice. The denial of policies and laws of racial injustice is silence. Doing nothing with the awareness of racial injustice policies and laws is silence. Silence means agreement with the policies of racial injustice. We must address the "carefully taught" within our churches and civic organizations such as the PTA and civic leagues. The mandate to present the policies from the mist. America is a republic based upon democratic principles. A Democratic Republic requires transparency to be effective and sustain viability."The Roman Republic experienced an extended period of political instability and social unrest. These actions contributed to the demise of the Roman Republic, ( Crisis of Roman Republic, Wikipedia> Wikipedia> Crisis_of_the_Roman)