Listen up… especially my Cuzzins and Homies.

Virginia’s recent LGBTQ’s anti discrimination law is a great example of how situations can change and people can change with them. Virginia was one of the most Conservative states for gay rights, holding the view that being gay was a “mental disorder” and against God’s teachings. Gays were discriminated against and even murdered because people there believed that God believed gays to be Satan. Now, Virginia leads the way in LGBTQ rights in the South the same way that Germany has done a complete 180 on Jews and embraces all religions. I know Orthodox Jews who feel comfortable on Lufthansa, Germany’s Airline and who vacation in Deutschland appreciating that the attitude of the people toward them is the opposite of what the people had when Hitler was their leader. They don’t forget their history, but they don’t blame those who are living today for what was once done to them. Many Black people continue to have anger at whites for the years of oppression, prejudice, discrimination , slavery and other injustices that were inflicted upon them and they continue to transfer that anger to white people today. History is important, but more important is how history made changes in Human Rights and how people are NOW as a result of those changes. Whites haven’t done a complete 180 the way Germany has with the Jews, but they are trying. Americans are welcome to visit Vietnam today, a Country where we killed countless people including innocent people just 50 years ago. Americans are welcome to visit Hiroshima Japan where 80,000 Japanese died instantly from the atomic bomb America dropped on the city and over 120,000 more died a slow painful death from radiation fallout. Times change, people change. People learn from their mistakes of the past. The world evolves. People evolve. Remember the past, but “Live for today!”