The Truth Is Always Naked

In the context of human evolution, any two people should be able to connect through an idea.

Events of recent days, however, once again indicate that we have a problem living this out. At the core of the problem is that while each individual sees through his or her eyes, the individual tends to be measured by his/her ethnic group.

Follow me down this road:

As babies, African Americans inherit an image of European Americans as a “big, bad, white, dirty group.” So, when an individual European American shows up, the individual African American cannot get rid of the early orientation of how he/she sees the whole European American group.

Meanwhile, the European American shows up not knowing how the African American baby is looking at him. The two can’t get a communication going. They are culturally inhibited in the negative.

And they have no idea to build upon.

The cool thing is that the individual actually is built/designed/endowed with the capacity to create a new culture. But he/she cannot change the existing culture doing business as usual.

Year after year, small groups of African Americans get together to change things, but they come to the “change” meeting with images in their heads of the big group they want to change.

If African Americans could ever really truthfully get at how they see European Americans, or if European Americans could ever truthfully get at how they see African Americans, and people could actually talk about that, then you would create another culture.

But normally, we don’t get at the truth.