"I had managed to keep my composure in the grocery store, and even when I was putting away my cart back to get my quarter back. But as I drove home, the tears came. I began the ugly cry."
"How do we move past this? What do you do when someone else is just SOOO CLEARLY wrong? Aren’t we obligated to speak truth when people are off track? Well, yes. But..."
It's hard to believe that the creator of the lovable Charlie Brown and the renowned "Peanuts" comic strip was ever anything less than an amazing creative guru. But like Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, and many of the "greats" we put on a pedestal, Schulz's success was born much more out of determination and refusing to accept failure than it was sheer talent.
I don’t know what difference I can make today to alleviate the suffering of others, or to shift the American system toward justice and equality. But I think the first steps, as a white man unfamiliar with deep generational suffering, is to apologize and repent.
