Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, October 15, 2018
PRIMAL PRIVILEGES
COIN PURSE OF PRIMAL PRIVILEGE
Is "right" the correct word to use when referring to our personal privileges like speech, defense, association, work, play , worship, family? By this I mean that these natural "rights" are privileges of existence, not political allotments that are prescribed by the laws of nations, articles of religions, men.
Personal privileges are incidents of life , of living . These are derived from God, who confers and revokes as all suits God , who is infinite and infinitesimal , innate and inert in all.
The implications of this realization are liberating; its ramifications are too. One is no more an American citizen than one is Rwandan citizen.
Labels of politics and conquest do not define our personal privileges.
If those States or nations all fall, we remain as mankind, like before they came to be hegemonically to exist.
Self-organization is a privilege too. History is a quilted tapestry sewn with together with the threads of conceived values, of perceived visions, of military victories, of economic defeats, of social equity.
This latter category "social equity" is the coin purse of primal privilege.