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Missed Significance - For What it's Worth

Update: I thought about re-writing this to update for everything happening in the Spring of 2020 but I felt that it still holds true as a statement in June 2020. People are still dying out there. I have spent quite a bit of time watching the news cover the Travon Martin issue and then checking in with myself and others in my life and their reactions to the issue. Fact is that even those of us who have met and processed our propensity for unconscious injustice and dismissal of issues that don't necessarily confront me (I don't live in Sanford, Florida), I have yet to see ANYONE in my communities step up and confront the issue. And so today it begins with me. I am curious and a little afraid that some people are using a variety of the surrounding issues of this case to shield ourselves from acknowledging and feeling that if the roles were reversed, if you could go to a place where you were touched by the injustice of a young man being killed for what he represented, or a wom...

Stop, Children—What’s That Sound? A Call to Consciousness

Stop, Children—What’s That Sound? A Call to Consciousness In 1966, Buffalo Springfield released For What It’s Worth , a song that quickly became an anthem of protest and reflection. But as “Missed Significance – For What It’s Worth” points out, its meaning has often been diluted—reduced to a nostalgic soundtrack rather than a call to action. The lyric: "Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down." was never just poetic—it was prophetic. It urged listeners to pause, observe, and respond to the unrest around them. That message is just as urgent today. Recent Signals of Unrest The 2023 police shooting in Akron reignited debates about accountability and justice. The 2024 “Cop City” protests in Atlanta exposed tensions between public safety and community autonomy. The 2025 student walkouts over curriculum bans revealed deep fractures in our educational and cultural landscape. These events are not isolated—they’re echoes of a deeper disquiet. The...

Purification Without Permission: When Ceremony Collides with Cancel Culture

🔥 Purification Without Permission: When Ceremony Collides with Cancel Culture In the heart of a decades-old men’s organization, a sacred fire was extinguished—not by accident, but by pressure, politics, and a storm of competing truths. The ManKind Project (MKP), known for its New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA), once included a Purification and Renewal Ceremony inspired by Indigenous sweat lodges. Today, that ceremony is gone from MKP USA’s weekends. Why? We know the answer lies in a tangled web of cultural appropriation, cancel culture, and internal dysfunction—where competitive behavior often masquerades as moral clarity. 🧿 The Accusation: Cultural Theft or Ceremonial Legacy? We know that accusations of cultural appropriation carry emotional weight and historical trauma. SPIRIT (Center for the Support and Protection of Indian Religions and Indigenous Traditions) launched a public campaign accusing MKP of conducting over 3,500 sweat lodge ceremonies, generating more than $58 ...

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