Showing posts with label Selma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Selma. Show all posts

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Ignorance Should Not Be Bliss

I admit it.  I do not know everything.  In fact, I know extraordinarily little.

I cannot know what it is like to live in your shoes. Even if I try, your worldview will probably be misunderstood without a great deal of exploration and discussion.

I admit it.  

And yet, my first impulse (and maybe yours as well) is to defend what I “know” to be the truth because I have spent my whole life surrounded by it.  It is not my fault if you don't know what's true because you spent your life somewhere else. 

Example number 1.