💥We live in a great nation with great achievements and advances
💥Have we committed historic crimes?
Yes.
💥Have we sorted out racial justice?
No, of course not.
💥Are we struggling with severe problems in this age of crisis?
Absolutely.
💥👍🏼💥👍🏼However, we need to acknowledge the progress, the great strides forward, the sacrifices made by so many - often at severe personal cost
💥By not acknowledging the good - we commit the most grievous crime not merely against the pioneers of our western civilisation but against ourselves.
💥Are we living through a period of great historical amnesia, blind to the preciousness of our cultural inheritance?
💥The 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon warned: without faith, civilisations die.
@MatthewSyed
⁉️Is faith in western civilisation wilting?
🎶The great Joni Mitchell sang: "You don't know what vou've got till it's gone."
👨🏼🏫One of the things we can do - a great gem from the legendary Chazan Brett Kaye -
“Before criticising someone or something - acknowledge something great or good about it or them!!!”