In every deck, the Tower is depicted as chaos
I am Caucasian – I do not see the overt slights of my darker-skinned family and friends. I am embarrassed to say that it must be pointed out to me before I see the insult. I try, but I do not walk in their shoes and have not suffered the pain of being outcast merely because I look different. My soul recognizes that we are all brothers and sisters and yet…here I am…trapped in this Tower of Fear built by a nation.
We can call it by many names: Indifference (because my world is just fine, thank you very much), or Idyllic (because didn’t we sort that all out in the 60s, and really, aren’t ‘they’ just being too sensitive?), or Injustice (because what about ME? Aren’t ‘they’ taking our jobs?)
This list could go on and on. I encourage you to look at your own Tower and examine each brick for insights into the fears that contain us, that prevent us from reaching across the racial lines to embrace, love and care deeply for our fellow humans, to lobby for justice for all.
We must not allow fear to keep us locked into a holding pattern or to become entrenched in a fortress of inequity through passive inaction.
By dismantling this Tower of Fear, we become liberated. And what is life but a continuous revolution of the Soul, taking a fierce stand for freedom.