Diversity Threads

“The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.”

Barack Obama

America! The quality of life is always on the ballot, each and every time we vote with conscience, emotional intelligence and moral courage.

A new essay is now available. Click here to read “Raw Honesty”

I posit that on November 3, 2020 what will be on the ballot will not only be the name of candidates for President of the United States. But also on the ballot will be an opportunity to restore leadership, integrity, dignity and personal veracity. There is a hunger and thirst in America for leadership that is credible, trustworthy and takes responsibility for tough decisions. What is on the ballot will be ethics, empathy, emotional intelligence, moral courage and a connection with the human condition. 

Jorge D.H. Prosperi

Find the latest essay: The Ballot of November 3, 2020: Beyond Candidates ~ Beyond Party here.

An additional essay just added:
Education’s Greatest Failure: Ignoring Racism from Pre-K Beyond

Take up the White Man’s burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.

Kipling

A 2-part series of America struggling to get back to normal.
Will America return without pausing to critically examine the normality of the past or seek a new vision and mission in the 21st Century?

“Back To Normal Soon – Big Time!”: God I Hope Not!, Part I of II
Denormalizing Our Future: A Critical Vision and Mission, Part II of II

Doing Violence to America’s White Soul

by Jorge Dante Hernandez Prosperi 2020

This next series introduces two new poems and one new essay. Included in the links below are two companion essays previously published. A continued reminder of the pain, anguish, and suffering untold.

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit with the core belief.”

Frantz Fanon

White America will not change its inherent inherited racist pathology until it does violence to its white racist soul and deals with the pain.
Continue reading this essay…

New poems by Jorge Dante Hernandez Prosperi

Read On Both Knees
Read Detrás Alambre Cruzado / Behind Crossed Wire

Previous essays related to this topic

Read Separatocide Part I
Read Separatocide Part II

The reappointment was announced by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden calling Harjo “an inspiring and engaging poet laureate,” who would “help the Library showcase Native poets from coast-to-coast.”

Harjo is the nation’s first Native American Poet Laureate, and her own poetry often draws on her Muskogee Creek background, as well as feminist traditions. As Laureate she has been working on an upcoming anthology of Native poetry as well as an online map that the Library says will include “Native poets’ biographies and recordings of them reading and discussing one of their poems.” Harjo recently kicked off a Washington Post/Library of Congress series, The Poetry of Home, where she read her her poem, “Perhaps The World Ends Here:” She will serve as Poet Laureate to promote appreciation and awareness of poetry throughout the country and world. 

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Read the latest essay –
America’s Essential Workers: COVID-19 Reminder of Necropolitics

COVID-19 is not the enemy – not someone or something to blame. It should not become another excuse to not look into the mirror . . . images we own. COVID -19 views earth as it was always meant to be . . . without borders, flags, anthems, walls or caged children. It does not recognize contrived constructions. Damn it for its presence. . . masking . . . unmasking . . . blessed it be for removing the shadows . . . for casting reflections . . .

Go to Maldita – Bendita

There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto) Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet – diplomat – politician – 1904-1973

“Back to Normal Soon – Big Time!”: God I Hope Not! – Part I of II
Denormalizing Our Future: Independent Democratic Vision and Mission – Part II of II

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Where is it we are headed…

The following essays can be found under the menu topic Truth Serum

Surviving the Coronavirus at Home: With Humanness…Courage…and Eloquence

Discourse with Mutual Respect and Dignity: Norms When Discussing Controversial Issues

Gaslighting America – A 3-Part Series
Part 1 – Gaslighting America: The Gaslighter in Chief
Part 2 – Gaslighting: “Psych!”
Part 3 – A Light That Shines For All: Self Evident