Tag Archives: cognitive dissonance
We’re continuing here with our discussion about the September 23, 2016, CBS This Morning show with Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey on the grand opening of Washington DC’s Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture. We think it’s really important for us as white people to get a much deeper understanding of racial discrimination as it has been historically and continues to be experienced by Black Americans. We also know it is similar to but not identical to all kinds of other intolerance of many groups,
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As I mentioned earlier, there wasn’t room in the last blog to fully answer the question I set out to answer then, which was: “How are we going to begin to protect our lives, forests and homes from fires set by terrorism?” I hope to share with you what I believe will be necessary to begin to address the problem.
On my last blog I talked about how polarized our country has gotten.
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“To thine own self be true,” was a phrase spoken by Polonius in Hamlet. It means ‘do not deceive yourself’. The full quote is:
to thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man
This quote could certainly apply to our own lives and politicians lives as well. But today we’ll confine our discussion to how the quote “ to thine own self be true,” applies to politicians’ lives.
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