My Lectio for Beatitude #2

In the early 1950’s the Supreme Court reversed a ruling made shortly after the Civil War and declared that racial segregation did not produce equality. Part of the evidence used in the case Brown Vs. Topeka (1950) was testimony by social psychologists Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark.  The Clark’s conducted a study with 16 Black children who were given two identical dolls that differed only by skin color. The children were then asked which doll was “nice” and which doll was “bad.” The majority of the children labeled the white doll “nice” and the black doll “bad.” A facsimile of the study was conducted again in 2006. Seventeen-year-old filmmaker, Kiri Davis, presented black and white dolls to New York city preschoolers. When given a forced choice, sixteen of the twenty-one children surveyed characterized the white doll as “nice” and the black doll as “bad.” In the film, one child received a follow-up question. She was asked “which child looks like you” she hesitates for a moment and then pushes forward the Black “bad” doll.

Tuned to the Source are those feeling deeply confused by life; they shall be returned from their wandering. Tuned to the Source. Tuned to the Source. Tuned to the Source. Tuned to the Source are those feeling deeply deeply deeply confused by this life. Because eventually, they shall be returned home for their long long wandering.