Jack’s Winning Words 6/11/19
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”  (Harper Lee)  To Kill a Mockingbird, as a play, has been on Broadway for about a year, and it’s a hot ticket.  I guess it’s time for the message in Harper Lee’s book to be retold…just like it was time for the Hamilton story to have a new telling.  “Mockingbird” is a reminder that you really don’t understand racism (or other –isms) until you see it with the offended’s eyes.   ;-)  Jack

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  Yes I belonged to the NAACP in the late 40s and early 50s in Davenport! Then when we moved to Florida we were surprised that they had not enforced the Brown vs education decision of 1954! So all of our children were among the first to be integrated in the schools! ===JACK:  Have the passions of your youth and young adult ages translated into the present time?

FROM NORM'S BLOG:  I’m glad that Harper Lee used the word “consider”; rather than “see”, because it is both literally and figuratively impossible for us to see things from another person’s point of view. We all “see” and interpret the things that we see through the filters of preconditioning, prejudices and prior knowledge. Unless we stop and make the conscious effort to consider what we are seeing differently, we run on autopilot and let those filters direct or thinking about what we are seeing/hearing/experiencing.===JACK:  That happens with regard to our religious views, also.