Bees and Butterflies: An Analysis
Microaggressions have become a day to day experience for many people around the globe. It seems that only a select number of situations are broadcasted for millions to observe through books, movies, tv shows, news. While the rest are lost in a sea of hundreds of faces. There are many wonderful sources of clarity that bring light to these experiences and situations. One of the most inspiring in my opinion is the book Citizen by Claudia Rankine. Citizen unveils our eyes to the repetitive structure of racism that people of every age experience. As a white woman, I will never understand this racism to the full physical reality. However, I do witness it, and it crushes me to see so much hatred people towards people. God has taught me that to be a Christian is to love all people the way Jesus has. And that is my plan, that is in the way I was designed and raised. People are people are people. All deserve kindness, and kindness is not a weakness.
While reading Citizen, I was horrified to find the veil that had been obscuring my vision from the true extent of racism that contaminates our everyday lives and communities. Filled with a burning anger towards such unkind human beings, I wrote out every feeling that correlated with words into a prose. As I usually write when overcome by particular emotions, these words I have …show more content…
Bees find kindness as weakness, and prey on those who they deem weak. In the third chapter of Martha Nussbaum’s piece Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Nussbaum discusses the idea that “Compassion is not reliable in and of itself” (37). I however disagree with this statement, I do not believe peace, love, and equality can be established from anything else but compassion. Kindness and compassion are equal tools in this world where hate is too often
Microaggressions have become a day to day experience for many people around the globe. It seems that only a select number of situations are broadcasted for millions to observe through books, movies, tv shows, news. While the rest are lost in a sea of hundreds of faces. There are many wonderful sources of clarity that bring light to these experiences and situations. One of the most inspiring in my opinion is the book Citizen by Claudia Rankine. Citizen unveils our eyes to the repetitive structure of racism that people of every age experience. As a white woman, I will never understand this racism to the full physical reality. However, I do witness it, and it crushes me to see so much hatred people towards people. God has taught me that to be a Christian is to love all people the way Jesus has. And that is my plan, that is in the way I was designed and raised. People are people are people. All deserve kindness, and kindness is not a weakness.
While reading Citizen, I was horrified to find the veil that had been obscuring my vision from the true extent of racism that contaminates our everyday lives and communities. Filled with a burning anger towards such unkind human beings, I wrote out every feeling that correlated with words into a prose. As I usually write when overcome by particular emotions, these words I have …show more content…
Bees find kindness as weakness, and prey on those who they deem weak. In the third chapter of Martha Nussbaum’s piece Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Nussbaum discusses the idea that “Compassion is not reliable in and of itself” (37). I however disagree with this statement, I do not believe peace, love, and equality can be established from anything else but compassion. Kindness and compassion are equal tools in this world where hate is too often