This image is of Peggy (R), then a 19 year-old SNCC member, next to future civil rights icon, Dr. Dorothy Cotton (L), after a 1962 church burning in Georgia—the state that Peggy's great-great grandparents, William & Ellen Craft, famously escaped from slavery nearly 115 years earlier...
Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Dr. Dorothy Cotton
MY
W E E K L Y
W O R D
1.9.21
In light of the horror that occurred this past Wednesday, 1/6/21, I wrote, "Where We Look"....
W H E R E W E L O O K
by Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
It is up to us
Where we direct
Our gaze...
Focus our attention.
It is elective
And we can choose
To look or not.
Either way there is CONSEQUENCE.
If we just
look-over
look-up
look-beyond
Will we regret
The urgency to re-set
Our own agenda
After the 6th of January
When armed invaders
Followed a mad man too far.
These next hours are crucial
Our sensibility has been up-ended.
For some of us it is no real surprise
For others, an unexpected jolt.
But for all of us
we cannot just
un-see
un-look
Or over-look...
Not. This. Time.
especially,
or unfortunately…
And from now on.
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