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As The World Turns - It Spins Off Its Axis Of Humanity
By JV Howard
As the world turns at a dizzying pace with concurrent epiphenomenon - COVID-19 and police brutality - both have mutated causing unprecedented damage, fallout, mayhem, and reactions. As COVID-19 does what a virus is supposed to do - mutate, humans have committed untold misery via violations of the "do unto others as you would have them do unto you tenet." Across cultures, boundaries, age, nationality, generations, and history pandemics have their place in the natural kingdom but police brutality is a man-made manifestation that has no place in societies.
As a young boy I remember back in the day as they like to say when I heard my grandmother say "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired," - and I had no idea what she meant at the time. Today I find myself saying those same words - I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of the incessant and senseless killing of black people....and now all people.
One connection from our history today have three links:
Blacks;
Whites; and...
Cowardice.
Cowardice is a trait wherein excessive fear and excessive self-concern override doing or saying what is right, good, and of help to others or oneself in a time of need. It is the opposite of courage.
As a label, "cowardice" indicates a failure of character in the face of a challenge. One who succumbs to cowardice is known as a coward.
It is such a violation of human interaction that many military codes of justice proscribe cowardice in combat as punishable by death. Nobody likes a snitch and everybody despises a coward.