Start with the British Red Coats.
They believed they were the good guys.
The Confederate States believed they were the good guys.
The German and Japanese fascists believed they were the good guys.
The Red Revolution in China believed they were the good guys.
The Klan believes they are the good guys.
Today the Proud Boys, Boogaloo, Q believe they are the good guys.
The Republican Party believes they are the good guys.
Every one of these groups, organizations, clubs has a sign out front.
That sign says, help not wanted.
What does that mean?
To want help, you first must come to realize you need help.
You get a flat tire, there’s no spare, you call AAA to get help.
The storm blows the roof off of your house.
You call your insurance because you need that roof overhead repaired.
You have a toothache.
Do you knock it out of your head like Tom Hanks?
No, you go to a dentist because they have the knowledge on how to help you.
Help not wanted.
Most of us can recognize when we need physical help.
We have a broken bone, a cut, an illness.
But a large group of Americans doesn’t realize they need moral help.
They can’t see the fairy tales of the white hood have become ingrained in their cultural beliefs.
They can’t feel their temperature rise as loud, selfish tyrannical voices command them to obey.
They can’t hear people cry as they deny them the right to exist.
They don’t need any help because their god is on their side.
They know power makes right.
They are defending their race.
They are defending their belief.
This is why they can’t be helped.
Help not wanted.
The only way to change the course of a river is through real effort.
To redirect to control floodwaters, civil engineering takes decades of continuous effort.
To have a civil society takes decades of continuous effort.
The waters of strife, of dissonance, of anger and hate will go where they will.
The rain will fall.
But we are not predestined to drown in a flood of hate.
We can build dams of justice.
We can build bridges of compassion.
We can lift the ideal of the beloved community to be real, not just a hope.
But remember, help not wanted?
Don’t throw your effort, your life into a job where you are not wanted.
Go make the light of peace, of brotherhood.
The lost will come to dry off of their own free will.
Peace
DFrey
