Comments on: On The Passing Of A True Heroine http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/10/on-the-passing-of-a-true-heroine/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Bailey http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/10/on-the-passing-of-a-true-heroine/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Chris Bailey Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:01:51 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2005/10/28/on-the-passing-of-a-true-heroine/#comment-255 Marianne, I would agree that some things have changed for the better. The fact that our children don't have to deal with segregation; perhaps even better is the fact that my oldest daughter recently said that disliking someone just because they are black makes no sense. Yet, I look around and continue to see challenges to our sense of democracy. The fact that there is a real movement to end the separation of church and state in favor of a theocracy; the fact that gays and lesbians continue to suffer scorn rather than find tolerance; the fact that corporations have ignored their responsibilities to their community by continuing to poison the earth; the fact that the current government condones torture and violence. I'll admit that I've been careless in my citizenship. I've allowed myself to be complacent with too much. Those who have power right now crave my cynicism...it's what allows them to trample justice and continue to generate the anti-Americanism that, unfortunately, seems to be rather well deserved at times. Marianne, I would agree that some things have changed for the better. The fact that our children don’t have to deal with segregation; perhaps even better is the fact that my oldest daughter recently said that disliking someone just because they are black makes no sense.

Yet, I look around and continue to see challenges to our sense of democracy. The fact that there is a real movement to end the separation of church and state in favor of a theocracy; the fact that gays and lesbians continue to suffer scorn rather than find tolerance; the fact that corporations have ignored their responsibilities to their community by continuing to poison the earth; the fact that the current government condones torture and violence.

I’ll admit that I’ve been careless in my citizenship. I’ve allowed myself to be complacent with too much. Those who have power right now crave my cynicism…it’s what allows them to trample justice and continue to generate the anti-Americanism that, unfortunately, seems to be rather well deserved at times.

]]> By: Marianne Richmond http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2005/10/on-the-passing-of-a-true-heroine/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Marianne Richmond Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:17:17 +0000 http://baileyworkplay.com/2005/10/28/on-the-passing-of-a-true-heroine/#comment-254 Hi Chris, What a confluence of thoughts your post evoked for me ...I wrote a post a few days ago on my blog about Rosa Parks and also began with thoughts about her courage. I agree with you, she simply embodied it. But as someone who was too young to actually remember the actual event on the bus, I do remember vividly the lunch counters and the fire hoses and the Birmingham church bomb. And although I believe that we are nowhere near an ideal of equality and love I don't necessarily believe we are as far off course as you do... or that you have not initiated steps towards creating a soulfully connected world. I think it is important, in both cases, to look at where we began and measure progress, rather than distance from the finish line. No, we can't become complacent...but I was really struck with the thought this week, as I talked to my children about Rosa Parks, about how it wasn't really that long ago that there were laws that said that some people had to sit in the back of a bus, use separate drinking fountains and bathrooms and other people thought that this was OK, normal; to my kids, it sounds like something from centuries ago and more importantly, it sounds like anything but OK. Sure, maybe the steps are small but they are forward...and ironically enough while you hadn't heard of Frances Moore Lappe until recently...I hadn't heard anything of her since Diet For a Small Planet. Wonder where I have been? So thanks for the re-introduction and update. And Chris, just believing what you believe, and writing what you write, and doing what you do in your own life and with your children, and keeping your eyes on the prize, is important, and on course... Marianne Hi Chris, What a confluence of thoughts your post evoked for me …I wrote a post a few days ago on my blog about Rosa Parks and also began with thoughts about her courage. I agree with you, she simply embodied it. But as someone who was too young to actually remember the actual event on the bus, I do remember vividly the lunch counters and the fire hoses and the Birmingham church bomb. And although I believe that we are nowhere near an ideal of equality and love I don’t necessarily believe we are as far off course as you do… or that you have not initiated steps towards creating a soulfully connected world. I think it is important, in both cases, to look at where we began and measure progress, rather than distance from the finish line. No, we can’t become complacent…but I was really struck with the thought this week, as I talked to my children about Rosa Parks, about how it wasn’t really that long ago that there were laws that said that some people had to sit in the back of a bus, use separate drinking fountains and bathrooms and other people thought that this was OK, normal; to my kids, it sounds like something from centuries ago and more importantly, it sounds like anything but OK. Sure, maybe the steps are small but they are forward…and ironically enough while you hadn’t heard of Frances Moore Lappe until recently…I hadn’t heard anything of her since Diet For a Small Planet. Wonder where I have been? So thanks for the re-introduction and update. And Chris, just believing what you believe, and writing what you write, and doing what you do in your own life and with your children, and keeping your eyes on the prize, is important, and on course…

Marianne

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