Doesn't everyone require help of others IM2
Humans are social animals, we are connected by conscience to respond to each other.
What affects one of us, affects us all.
We just FOCUS on people we relate to first, and then branch out from there.
So yes we do favor some groups over others. We all do this.
People who fall through the cracks have suffered severed relations
where they don't have support. Asians support each other's businesses in order to
stabilize and grow their communities. Latinos have remained more unified than not.
It's a lot of the Black communities and family lines still fractured
from having their ancestral lineage erased by genocide similar
to Native Americans still recovering from mass genocide.
But it's the genocide that did this damage to the spiritual lineage.
White people with cursed generational karma in their family lines
also die off, and can't get past their tragedies that repeat.
I see it as a spiritual disconnect and destroyed relations
versus healing and restoring good healthy relations to bring people back up to thrive.
The Black lineage still carries a heavy hit of deep wounds fairly recently,
where equal citizenship and rights wasn't even established until the mid 60s.
The wounds and damages from genocide still carry from several generations
before people can re stablize normalize and heal.
If it had been yellow people doing this to blue people,
the process of recovering from genocide would be on the blue people
and the fight would be with yellow people.
the yellow people who already recovered from when they
were enslaved by green people would already have
their social structures and relations in place, etc.
So I see it as a larger spiritual process going on,
and we identify by class by race, but the causes of
the damages and the differences in stages of
development and recovery is spiritual first then socially manifested.
We work through the spiritual part, and the social changes follow.
that's how I focus on changing from where we are now
to where we ALL need to be in stable sustainable growing healthy relations.
Thanks IM2
Being white or black or asian is part of our spiritual process
and path in life, but we all have to go through these stages
of recovery and development. All groups have bonuses and
advantages, and all have downsides and weaknesses.
Again you point out problems with "individualism" that get abused.
But there are also positive sides and use of that, too.
What the Bahai teach is that every race and culture
Contributes to the whole of humanity. Instead of only
focusing on negative drawbacks and abuses, if we
look at both sides of the same coin, we see each
person or group comes out equal where they have
done as much harm as they have done good, and
no one group is any more or less responsible
for causing or curing the problems we all share in society.
We've all contributed problems and all groups contribute
solutions. We just need to use the best of all of these,
and correct whatever has gone wrong regardless which people
or groups we blame for that. fixing the problems helps everyone,
and we form stronger effectve alliances by sharing MUTUAL responsibility
instead of fighting to project and deny blame back and forth.
so I take the partnership approach,not divide and conquer
by fear and blame that destroys relations further.
IN order to pull each other up we need to restore each other's
relations, not tear anyone down more.
You point out that white people never pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
What allows ANYONE to pull up is forgiveness so we don't stay stuck
in mental victimhood and learned helplessness.
The common factor I've seen in people recovering
is forgiving so they could be helped whether by other people
or their own efforts. People don't operate as effectively
and attract help if we are negative angry and bitter
blaming others, which chases help away.
This is true for whites, too. The ones who succeed
have abundance mentality and the ones who fail
and flail have scarcity mentality that is fear based.
Again it's a spiritual process universal to everyone I've met
regardless of faith background, culture, gender, class or race.
The more we forgive the more support we have to grow forward
despite setbacks or obstacles which become less,
and the more we can't forgive the worse we set ourselves back
by disrupting or destroying relations that we need to pull EACH OTHER up!
