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Truth as I See It

The discernment of truth from fiction has never been as arduous a task as it seems to be these days.  Outside of the human element to flower the truth, the flowering of the truth as manufactured by artificial intelligence has made discernment and truth seeking a conscious task.  So much so that there are articles that focus solely on “Best Practices” for discovering the truth. 

Imagine the work one must go through in every aspect of his or her life to get to the point of making intelligent decisions based upon facts.  Also take into account that according to research humans make upwards of 35,000 decisions a day.  I don’t know about you, but I want to have some universal truths around certain aspects of my life.  I want to believe without much thought that the food that I eat, the air I breathe, the institutions I depend upon (government, religious, etc.) are operating with my best interest at heart and truth is at core of those entities.

I frame this particular musing in light of truth because what the recent protesting has brought to bear is how many of my white brethren have been vested in facts that simply are not grounded in truth.  See what the deaths of Armaud Arbery, George Floyd and Brianna Taylor’s death has shown white people is the ghost of race and racism that black people see are real and are not just figments of a time gone by.  It has made plain that people of color complaints of a systematic ideology based solely upon the color of one’s skin can both be a cause of death and or an economic barrier. 

However, if there was a silver lining to the issues of today is the fact that when I look at the front lines of the revolution there seems to be a shared responsibility in terms of moving humanity forward.  Which brings me back to truth.  What the revolution has further done is made my white brothers and sisters look in the mirror and juxtapose the untruths their parents have been raised to believe about black and brown people against the truths they as young adults have grown to know for themselves.  It’s hard to justify death and systematic inequality when you see it in real time and right before your eyes.  

While white supremacy spun at its unconscious normal rate the pandemic slowed the world down to a crawl.   Making the entire world acknowledge separate and unequal treatment, particularly here in America.  While a resolution is still TBD that will quell the Negrophobia that has gripped the country for over 400 years what is happening now makes some of us hopeful.  At the very least it gives those that went on before me solace that at least the revolution moved from Soutel to San Marco and from Auburn Ave to the doors of CNN.

That’s My Truth and I AM sticking to It…

I AM 

Dr. Irvin PeDro Cohen