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2020 IS THE HINDSIGHT YEAR

It is the hindsight year to see ourselves and how we really are both on the inside and on the outside. I remember once reading that each of us has THREE FACES, The Face we see when we look in the mirror, The Face other people see and the Face that God sees (the Real one). Laws can be written to change our actions & reactions, but our eyes will only see the truth with God's help.

2020 is the hindsight year where we are really seeing things in their actual spectacular color. Most definitely the black color dominates positively the scene. 2020 is also a year of the blue color of police as the target not the criminals. The old game of Cops and Robbers seems to be played out differently and it’s the police that are naked & faceless and the robbers that are Masked. This is the year where people are living in fear of the Corona virus, Where people are afraid of the future, where people are losing their jobs and their livelihood and where crimes of all sort are happening in every single city in the country. The decision makers are under constant pressure to act but they are motionless fearing the voters wrath and so they even take opposite side to police force, the very people that need to enforce law and order.

Welcome to 2020 the year of Hindsight. For many people the year seems to be a long horrific nightmare and they wish that somehow when they wake up it’s all over and it was nothing but a very bad dream. Then as the days pass by they realize this is not a bad dream but a horrible reality. The world is basking in the sign of the Black Lives Matter movement and it appears everybody is racing to share their point of view on how to really really make Black Lives Matter. Some approach it in the form of appeasement and some who truly believe that systematic racism exists and the way to deal with it is to not only to continue this revolution but to escalate it and if demands are not met, they will burn the whole system down!

The other color that dominate but negatively is the White color. For the white person in the West, like it or not, life will never be the same. Perhaps it shouldn’t be. There is no doubt that there is a paranoia of simply being a white person who is soon to be listed on the endangered species list. The mantra of 2020 is that it is not enough to say black is beautiful but you must also say that white privileges makes every white person UGLY. This kinds of remind us of the "Ugly American" movie of 1963.

And so the race war which is actually a skin color war (since we are all one human race) continues. Most definitely to the detriment of the entire human race. I honestly cannot see how accentuating an existing discrimination in one direction would be resolved by heightening the tension against the others in the other direction. The existing systemic racism is wrong. of course. But so is also the reverse racism against the white people. I have often said that one wrong plus one wrong does not make two rights. In fact, on the contrary, in the words of a wise person of long ago who said that when two sighted people start punching each other in the eye, it will render both of them BLIND.

2020 also seem to be a year for every marginalized group in the world to raise their fist and to demand justice. No Justice no peace is the slogan of each group that is struggling with any form of discrimination or racism. It is not only Black Lives Matter, but Migrant workers matter, First Nations people matter, LGBTQ lives matter, and the list goes on. Sometimes one has to beg the question: why in 2020, why has it happened all of a sudden like this? but the truth is that there has always been struggles & pressures and shouting of people seeking justice everywhere in the world since the beginning of the human race.

Why 2020? it is probably because of the combined effect of so many disasters happening in the world including a worldwide pandemic that has highlighted and heightened the tensions in the human family. It is also true that political animosities have been accentuated in the age of rage we are living in particularly in the United States where the country has been totally divided into two colors of blue and red. This division is so great that a person cannot choose to be an individual with own views on specific issues anymore but rather a person of identity associated with one of the two colors nothing more which in itself is the worst judgment on the true meaning of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Freedom to speak today is a hostage and the greatest wardens for it are the High Tech Firms.... But, that is for another post.

The challenge of humanity NOW particularly in the West is to decipher the secret code of HOW to make life better not worse post 2020. Then and only then we would be able to say that hindsight is 2020.

drshallal 6 June 29
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