Glenn Aparicio Parry offers his personal reflections on RBG in the context of American history and what he sees as America’s sacred purpose: unity in diversity, a purpose yet to be realized.
Structural racism affects everyone, and prevents America from achieving its sacred purpose: unity in diversity - E Pluribus Unum, “Out of the many, one”.
A significant part of our history has been repressed or marginalized as a way of protecting white male privilege, a history we are only beginning to face. Revealing this American shadow has been an opportunity to see America as it really is—and maybe to change.
Native Americans not only influenced the founding fathers, they also inspired the ‘founding mothers’: 19th century women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Matilda Gage.
To recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that are currently keeping the country divided. The most significant forgotten piece is the profound effect Native America had on the founding values of this nation.
The problem with modern politics is that it excludes nature in its planning. Then, nature imposes her will - as she is doing now with the COVID-19 outbreak. What does the virus mean not just in terms of the survival of the human species, but for all of nature?
The changing climate is an opportunity to reassess our relationship with the natural world and our own past. It is an opportunity to pause from our frenetic pace in pursuit of “progress” and to remember that humanity only imagines that it can chart its own course independent from nature, but that we cannot.