Alternately:
– Circle of Prejudice
– Circle of Segregation
– Circle of Unfortunate Events

SOCIAL JUSTICE: equality for everyone in society

sometimes social justice is hard to find. yeah we can talk about all the solutions and what everything should be like, but how do we actually get those words into actions. Bryon Stevenson talked about the the blacks and how their stereotype has increased their negative statistics, and he’s right, but the solution for that is changing peoples minds. that is one hard feat to accomplish. Aaron Huey talked about the brutality and the disregard for basic human rights of the Lakota tribe, which is awful, but it will take more than pictures and history to fix what has happened and continues to happen. Peoples minds need to be persuaded to change, they need to see whats been done is wrong. again, changing someone who is set in their ways and believes “what’s done is done” is nothing short of almost impossible…

Adriana was 29-going-on-30 when we met.

As usual, it was raining in our little Mexican city.

My husband and I went to our church and offered a couple friends a ride home.

It was only half an hour out of the way but little did we know that in that short amount of time God would start to undo years and years of somebody’s isolation.

You see, we were in a sign language congregation, and Adriana lived in one of the houses we were supposed to visit.

Most of our friends had been advised not to visit her, for on top of being deaf, she had Schizophrenia, and she was considered to be dangerous and violent.

When we drove by her house we noticed the door was open and we decided to stop and call on it.

Adriana’s mom was already one of Jehovah’s Witnesses but did not know sign…

And another item from yesterday’s inbox…

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**Warning** Venting Session

I don’t understand how schools in affluent districts choose not to support teachers or invest in the school in general. I walk around the halls in my school and heaters are broken, graffiti on the walls, and doors are broken all around the building. I know that there are thousands of schools that are in far worse condition than the one I work in, but honestly, I work in a relatively affluent school district, but the school is the last place people in this town want to invest in.

Why not put a full time security guard in the building? Cost too much? We already have ID badges, why not set up a system where you have to swipe into the building and other rooms? Teachers won’t have to chase down students to figure out where they are, or if they really did go to the bathroom…

I cannot think of any image that is appropriate so I won’t post one.

With great grief, we acknowledge the recent events in our nation, in which innocents have died pointlessly and violently.

It is the way of mindfulness to first feel what we are feeling.  Before any effective external response, comes allowing what we have, to be here.  Allowing our internal sensations, thoughts and feelings to develop, deliberately suspending our tendency to avoid any feeling that is painful, to squelch from within anything we do not like.

What we have is grief and pain.  Let us feel these fully before taking any actions in response to our frustration or anger.

Let us also acknowledge that there is much suffering in the world that gets little attention in our nation, and that there is much we can do to relieve that suffering as well.

Finally, let us practice self-compassion.  Let…