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I was talking to a female friend of mine who is a strong divine feminine figure in our society, She does not apologize for her presence. She is brilliant and powerful as she embarks on her personal journey of being her gift she feels she needs to be. She is in the midst of being her purpose and cause, yet she does not feel respected for who she is. She feels is waiting for the world to catch up to the fact, she is part of our new vision who we can really become, in our near future.
“I feel like I am living on death row and I feel like I will never come out of this alive. I am waiting on time to greet me and treat me with some humanity, some compassion.”
We both share those same feelings as we share our universal voices, our protest against people not being present, people not making wise choices, our government, even ourselves. We both wanted to change our course of living, wanted a sweeter response to life and its journey. We both want to be honored and treated with love and compassion, not drowning in the sea of misunderstanding which looks like hate and fear.
We have been birthed to become humans on this earth, honored within our societal family and the universe. We have been birthed to be able to give the fruits of your gifting into the universe because we have been paid forward by the universe. The gifting of our lives give us our birthright, our divine right of life to give back in recognition into our known garden of life called earth. We are here to give back in a divine reflection honoring the circle of life, in a personal and universal sense of thanksgiving. We have the gift of choice and action. We have the discretion to be humane as human beings or be creatures of lack and hate.
Being humane to me is having the compassion to see and understand the feelings and the situations of other people.
Being humane is being aware to honor everyone’s human story.
Being humane is being willing to admit when you have wronged and been wronged, then be willing to forgive, mend and forget the acts of pain you have experienced, so that you can receive the answers or the questions of the lessons in the process of your human story.
How many of us have made mistakes, made bad judgments in the act of desperation? Those were actions made of fear based decision making. These are actions that have consequences. To sin means to miss the mark and being that is an archery term, just pick a new arrow and shoot again. You have to be willing to try again, believing in a better outcome.
We would wonder where was our humanity when it comes to giving life sentences for nonviolent offenses.
October 31, 2017 will mark 21 years in prison for Alice Johnson, a 62-year-old mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. In 1996, after a jury trial, Johnson was convicted of nonviolent drug conspiracy charges and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
According to the ACLU, Johnson is one of 3,278 people serving life sentences without parole for a nonviolent offense, meaning she will die in prison. Johnson is like so many others of the 79 % who are drug offenders and 65% are black. The major of these sentences were mandatory, meaning judges had no discretion over the length or minimum or severity of the sentences defining the judgments of the nonviolent crimes.
Alice Johnson is not a perfect human being, she has her flaws. She chose to participate in trafficking drugs to pay her bills. It was a desperate move she made, after a series of bad turns in her life. She needed to support herself and the family. She became a victim of our system. There is no form of correction she can apply herself to. There is no way she can make her wrong right.
We need to find the pathway to compassionate justice that applies to all people of this nation. This is a beginning of a time of change, but the change is slow in coming. But, change is gonna come.
An Ohio police officer who severely beats a black driver gets the justice he deserves because he did not honor the rights of the driver. The story unveils itself as modern technology allows us to see the behavior of public officials in action. Accountability is the key word when are speaking to the integrity of our “people of service’ who are serving our communities, states, and country.
“I can understand and appreciate the great concern and alarm of those who have seen or heard of the videos.” – Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer
On August 12, Officer Michael Amiogtt was captured on camera repeatedly punching motorist. Richard Hubbard III, with closed fists when he claimed Hubbard did not “turn around” per his command.
Euclid Police Chief Meyer had initially issued Amiott a 15-day suspension after reviewing the dash cam footage. Mayor Gail the extended that suspension another 30 days before ultimately terminating the officer.
“After a review, I found Amiott to have violated additional departmental rules, including Conduct Unbecoming and Courtesy, calling into serious question his suitability as a Euclid police officer.” The City of Euclid Mayor Kirsten Holzheimer Gail had announced, after an extended suspension, that Officer Amiott has been terminated. (Brian Tyler Cohen
Verified Politics)
When the echo of justice rings true, the sounds of vowels and consonants return to you in a compassionate response to being a valid human being. There will come a time when everyone in America can have life sentences of attaining honor as citizens of America. Honor be to the people of this great nation in the midst of transformational change.
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