Ahjamu Makalani - Scale of Justice
I’m much more grounded in the reality in which I live. When Eugene Debs went throughout the country in the late 1800 and early 1900’s, he made it clear that a chicken in every pot, a man is in prison, I feel you. That’s what I’m talking about. Having a connection in terms of social realities, and how we can improve upon our realities.
But I’m not very much in coming up in some kind of metaphors on what progressive values are. I would say a metaphor for justice would be, what was it Plato said. I remember about the scale with the woman who is blind, but given our reality I’d rather for the woman to take the blinds off and see the reality for what is, because sometime when you’re blind, you don’t have justice. In fact, you have a great deal of injustice. I’m not quite sure that’s an appropriate metaphor either. That’s why I’m sort of stymied with that one.
I’m very found of flowers, so that really struck me when you went down your list. There’s a particular flower that I really like, it’s very pretty to look at. I don’t know the name of it, but it’s purple, and the bush has narrow, pointed leaves. So that’s what comes to mind. I think of it as being perfect to look at, attractive, inviting,
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