Remembering the Way to Healing
On Tuesday evening as the nation’s COVID death toll passed 400,000, a man who knows grief too well told the nation why we needed to pause and reflect.
To heal we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember. But that’s how we heal.
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden are joined by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff during a COVID-19 memorial event at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
Joe Biden, on the eve of assuming the presidency, offered that profound truth. A man who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident just days before a Christmas, and then later a son to brain cancer. Biden knows about pain. And healing. And remembering.
First, thrilled the orange stain is gone; extremely happy that not just the White House is under Dem control, but the Senate as well, now. That is beyond amazing (thank you so much Stacy Abrams for helping to save “Democracy” … at least for now.)
In that later regards, having a consititution based upon and heavily written for Slavery and with almost half the electorate being so racist that even that stain upon our national fabric was worth voting for, I seriously doubt our “democracy” really did prevail. Rather, it staggered onward with its racist and hateful parts fully functioning and dooming our republic unless and until racical chages are made – i.e. we actually make our country a democracy where coprporations aren’t given control of our government and voting becomes not just a right but a required civic duty for all on proper national holidays (both to allow people offf from work to vote and celibrate a true democrarcy.)
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On Sunday, Jan. 17, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down with Jane Pauley of CBS News "Sunday Morning." Pauley treated Harris to a full-on journalistic massage. At no point was