Manage Fear or Suffer Demise

As we move slowly from the health, social and political and economic pandemic that has been Covid-19, and beyond the movement against racism, police brutality and injustice against Black people in this country, I propose that we mindfully manage our subconscious fears.

Often times, prejudice and hatred and all the isms are birthed in a deep seated, sometimes, subconscious fear of our own failure. We fear others, because their presence, their own genii, may dim the light, attention, the job, the accolades, the successes, the hype we enjoy in the spaces we already occupy.

Know that our diversity is the true genius of this experiment called America. In any situation we find ourselves in, we should always be mindful that if the only voice we hear from our thoughts is our own-the product of our own biases, we are in trouble of being narrow-minded and tunnel-visioned, existing less than our dynamic human privilege.

We can never grow unless there are competing forces around us, challenging us to stretch our minds, to become uncomfortable, to think outside of the box, to embrace being wrong, to be humbled in the face of correction. It is only by achieving this feat, that we can grow into the privileged destiny that is the journey to enlightenment, of becoming an enlightened one and becoming the fulfillment of the talents and abilities impregnated in our DNA, in the genome of each and every one of us as members of the human species.

#tuesdaystroublingthought