I Can’t Breathe – Is this part of the racial evolution that needs to be heard?
“If you had a virus or infection and the doctor just told you to put a band aid on it and move forwards you would think that they were crazy. I see the same crazy kind of approach happening with what is going on in the world today.”
Marilyn Devonish <3 And if you prefer to read rather than listen, this is the Blog post that I am referring to on this video: https://marilyndevonish.com/cant-breathe-racial-evolution-needs-heard/
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Well said Marilyn
Beautiful love you ❤️
Thank you Sukhi Wahiwala. M <3
I enjoyed that woman’s blog, what she had to say and questions were popping up in my mind while listening to it. Oh, you mentioned some names that I didn’t recognise… I know the Trayvon case well, but what are the other names you mentioned? I’d like to research those incidents. Thanks!
Thank you Deirdra Barr. I can see a pattern forming here, I was just off to make dinner and my brain was like: “Nope. We’ve got a video to do . . .” This being hungry lark just does not suit me!
Thank you Deborah Ann Miller. This is the link to the Blog: https://marilyndevonish.com/cant-breathe-racial-evolution-needs-heard/ Love M <3
Very useful. Many thanks!
You are most welcome. 🙂
Yes there was a pre breakfast scenario recently I remember 😉
Deirdra Yep. The other one was just as I was on my way to make breakfast. I might have to instigate a ‘No FB Live When Hungry’ Policy. 😀
On the contrary. I appreciate your real emotion coming out and sharing your truth. Food is important and you may want to eat, your choice but because you didn’t have any food, there was no emotion stuffed or suppressed but expressed in its pure state. 😀
Why? They are perfect 🙂
I totally agree with your analogy of not just putting a plaster on it and I also agree with generational inheritance of ‘stuff’. I would love to say there is an easy answer to all this and there isn’t 🙁
Change is scary to most folk – the good thing is though that with the advent of social media the stories, the videos, the truth is getting out here for the world to see. – the wrong thing is that it is happening at all – to any race
Change will happen as it does and I feel that more will die unnecessarily before someone gets a real culture shift in place.
The UK is one thing the USA is a whole other ball game.
I think you’re ignoring the huge strides that have already been made in uniting different cultures by focusing on an us and them divide. By magnifying a small issue, you’re making it bigger and whether you like it or not, you’re making white people the issue and cause. This isn’t true. Quite often racism is starting in the back yard of those people who are extreme in their own thinking, Damilola Taylor springs to mind. He wasn’t killed on racial grounds, he was killed because he wouldn’t join a gang. Despite his death his memory lives on in the most positive way. There is no division and no comments which could be thought of as inflammatory. I understand your passion but I wonder if you’re not causing more of a divide.
In memory of Damilola Taylor.
“The Spirit of London Awards is the way the Trust has celebrated Damilola’s legacy. He was a good boy who would never have joined a gang or carried a knife, a bit like the kids we honour”.
Julie Hogbin Yes indeed. I do wish there was one easy answer however it often appears that we as human beings weren’t necessarily designed that way, or if we were, have haven’t yet discovered the infamous ‘red pill or blue pill.’
The old song ‘Change Is Gonna Come’ has played in my head a few times this week, and when I look at how far we have come, I mean come on, Mr Barack Obama is President Obama to boot, I know that anything is possible. 🙂
Nina Wornham I’m not ignoring anything. I have mentioned some of those strides in the Blog. I know how to pack of lot of stuff into a few short minutes, yet trying to address the whole history of mankind and every single issue that has ever happened into one video would be crazy even for me. That would be like trying to bake a cake using every single ingredient in the cupboard just because it’s there. I am sure that everyone will be remembered in their own way, Damilola included.
Maybe we’re all hurting. For some reason, and don’t get me wrong, I love your posts, I think you’re such a positive influence. But you’re current video’s are making me upset. They’re bouncing off a nerve and I think it’s that in recent years, in the land of Britain anyway, as soon as we’ve objected to immigration for example, we’ve been called racist. If we raise the issue of the way in which some animals are slaughtered, we’re called racist. No one has defended women more than me yet sometimes I am called racist as a method to get me to shut up when I say that girls shouldn’t be married off to older men. So it hurts to be white living in Britain and being suggested that we might be racist. The majority of us are not. We are fed up of being suggested we are though. I know there are problems Marilyn but I think it’s ignorance and bigotry, not racism.
Nina Wornham It’s not much different from either side. Object to immigration? You might be called racist? Highlight the fact that we live in an unequal world. You might be called a racist. Does that mean that such things shouldn’t be talked about? No, I don’t think so. Many, both black and white have fought long and hard, shoulder to shoulder to move this world along so that it is a fairer place for everyone and at the moment I am not feeling like sitting back and observing as a small minority attempt to pull us back several hundred years. Ignorance, bigotry, racism, however which way you want to rank them, I believe they all in some way shape or form play their part, so to pretend that one of them doesn’t exist. I’m not sure that would be my ideal plan or approach.
Marilyn Devonish I’m not pretending issues don’t exist. And yes, they need to be discussed. But you’re coming over as the victim, the injured party which means you’re making someone else the culprit and you mentioned whites. You’re instantly creating a battleground and that’s where it gets tricky. If you focus on how much we’ve achieved, now you’re talking. Obama, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Oprah, Nelson Mandela, come on Marilyn, lift your gaze. You’re no one’s victim. In the UK, we have disabled, poor, homeless, unemployed, these people need our help because there are no laws to protect them. There are laws against racism and today more then ever, those laws are enforced. You do not need to create an us and them situation. It just needs some fine tuning.
Ouch Nina ouch….walk a mile in these shoes.
Dee Lovell I have! Not as a black person but as someone who has defended a black person and won because the law supports them.
i will add of what I have witnessed Marilyn seems to be a strong voice. Last person I personally perceive as a victim. I have grown up in uk but when your guy friends or family get stop searched 12 times in 3 weeks. For nothing to be found. The aggressiveness of officers. I have had lots of police and school hatred and have never ever said a thing in public. But all this makes me realise keeping quiet and just being pseudo spiritual is not the answer. Accepting it as that’s just the way it is not really right any more. Time to evolve. Be the change. We are the change many I know doing amazing things but it needs voices who are willing to share on theses topics.
I myself when young had some hideous police experiences all for mistaken identity on 2 or 3 occasions. Less victim more victor… Thanks to Marilyn’s voice it makes me realise to much is shut up and out on and got on with instead of cleansed and cleared.
Nina Wornham I’m not feeling like a victim. If that’s how it’s coming across to you, so be it. If you watched my previous video, which I believe you have, I’ve already said there that I have been lucky enough not to have been subjected to what many have been exposed to. Homelessness. Disability. Unemployment. We’re back to the all ingredients cake again. Just because I didn’t mention them here that doesn’t mean they don’t matter. That’s like saying: ‘You didn’t mention the whales and the plastic in the ocean! Don’t you care about the environment?” I’m talking about one aspect of an issue here, not attempting to address every issue that relates to humanity. I have found the people fine tune as they grow and evolve. That often involves them starting from where they are and taking action, not sitting in their comfort zone saying nothing or doing nothing.
Dee Lovell i’m not suggesting you shut up. But it takes time to change things. It’s taken 100 years to get women into parliament so it’s not just you that’s been on the receiving end of oppression but women in general. I think Marilyn comes across as very strong normally. My point is that you have to be careful showing any vulnerability. It allows enemies to see your weak side. It’s better to demonstrate the power of being united, which we are mostly.
Nina Wornham it takes healthy expression rather than suppression to. Revealing is healing! I will complete with a Brene Brown quote “Vulnerability is the birth place of love and belonging”. Sometimes expression is better than suppression. As it resonates with parts of me that recognises I have ancestral work to do. I am the woman that has sat next to a black man who has been pulled out a car and thrown on the ground hand cuffed roughly only to be released later, no charges no crime. I am the daughter of so called immigrants actually invited to England to build infrastructure and housing as skilled tradesman. Only to not be given places to live because no blacks allowed. This is nit really my song sheet to go proclaim. But seeing these videos makes me realise there is still some work I can do in myself and energetically for the collective. To heal the past and open up the future on a cellular and individual level. As this stuff passes in the DNA so if revealing Is healing. I’m all for it.
Marilyn Devonish you make a clear point about mentioning white people hinting strongly at racism. Today, Andy Burnham of the Labour Party secured a vote to allow the 3 million EU residents to remain living in the UK. I strongly disagree with you that based on an American TV shooting where guns are rife, the UK is racist and I am surprised that you are using the new live FB media to make your point. It;s not who you are.
Nina Wornham It might just be me missing something however you seem to be all over the place with your references and bringing in issues that are outside of the scope of what I was talking about. You are going to have to remind me where I said the UK is racist or where I talked about EU residency.
I don’t understand you. You apoear to be saying that the UK isn’t racist?
Where are you? The UK is racist as hell. We are just a bit more underhand about it than the Americans.
There are thousands of issues of inequality and deprivation need addressing but we can’t just vomit it all up in one sentence paragraph or even book.
Marilyn Devonish Clever Marilyn but I’m not being drawn in further. If we’ve agreed to allow 3 million EU residents to remain in the UK, we’re clearly not as racist as you surmise. With reference to whites, listen to your own voice. I am surprised at you.
Dee Lovell I agree and think that there is much for everyone to think about. One of my sayings with my clients is: “Better out than in” meaning that it can be challenging to deal with things that are hidden or repressed. I don’t see this global issue as being much different, and for me self dialogue can be just as powerful, sometimes more so, than light conversation. Much of my work is about patterns, and when I see them I call them so that they can be healed, and as I observe the world I see a few big patterns at play. And yes, addressing that starts with each individual so I look at what presses my buttons because if something strikes a big chord with me it usually means that there must be something there in the first place to set it off. I for one have a bit more work to do, and when I heal and evolve again, I know that weirdly my clients do too!
I refer you to my above comment. We have agreed to allow them to remain because we need them to carry on doing the work they are doing and contributing to our economy and culture. We are not benevolent in letting th remain we are pragmatic. Your arguments hold no water.
Marilyn Devonish Marilyn Devonish But wouldn’t you agree Marilyn, it’s because you’re addressing things as a whole? Not as a mere segment of society? Bigger picture?
Nina not Marilyn.
It’s like talking over a time lapse and everything coming out in the wrong place.
Marilyn Devonish yes this is my work is helping clear out old emotions, memories and patterns too. So clearing at the micro helps the macro. Working with individual highlights the collective. I find this in my own healing too.
Christine Evans I like that, the idea of parallel universes at play!!!
http://www.justinccohen.com/blog/2016/7/6/advice-for-white-folks-in-the-wake-of-the-police-murder-of-a-black-person
If the cap fits wear it. Black ppl didn’t land in white supremacy, white supremacy landed on us.
Talk about D Taylor being killed by other black kids is still part of white supremacy confusion. It’s called the Willie Lynch divide and rule.
This is not about individual bias it’s about a system that oppresses a group of ppl. Nina Wornham maybe for the first time you see Marilyn Devonish as a black woman rather than a quite liberal victim.
Here’s the thing black ppl are the heart of the earth they are loving and forgiving even when faced with such oppression. Marilyn is a Queen who embraces all, ppl all views and ask for her help and see if she will refuses. To speak of injustice does make you a victim. Ask yourself why are you so uncomfortable with her words. Or is she only palatable with convenient truths.
I feel awful for arguing with you now, I think you’re such a good person. xx
Remember @no matter how evolved you are when it rains you still get wet” this why you are speaking out
I just love listening to your voice Marilyn Devonish xx
Soo good to see you Marilyn… Soo good to hear your words… n soo ‘feeling’ you😀
A very poignant and insightful blog M !
This is indeed an evolutionary process . As you quite rightly say, we as the “community of human beings” must look to our own level of consciousness if we are to evolve to a higher frequency.
Thank you . Love you xx
Thank you Surjit Ghag. M 💖
Thank you Tricia Campbell. I love it!!! 😀 👀 👂🏾 🖖🏽
Thank you Fergus McClelland. I am having to get used to the sound of it too! 😆
Sharing! Yes, our world needs more HEALIN…
Thank you Sheila Mac. M <3
All said. That’s very eloquent Marilyn . Thank you x