Truth and Reconciliation 

Truth and Reconciliation is a term for fact finding past injustices and drafting proper systems, policies, and programs to bring about reconciliation through both discovery of past human rights and dignity violations, and historical wrongdoing against marginalized ethnic communities, along with reconciliation involving acknowledgement, forgiveness, and restoration. Truth and Reconciliation came in the form of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC) in South Africa and Canada, also, in America’s Tulsa Oklahoma.

Who are we and who do we want to be?

“America isn’t so much a country but more of an idea.”

Author unknown

How truly wonderful and delightful it is to see brothers and sisters living together in sweet unity! Ps 133 The Passion Translation

Martin Luther King said it this way, “We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will die together as fools.”

It is time for the head-spinning cultural and political dust to begin to settle. At this time, whether it be from loss of positive inertia to pure exhaustion, many have chosen this as a moment of rest. Rest if you may, replenish and restore yourself. However, it is coming, and it will be difficult to avoid. America is going to have to take a good hard look at itself.  

Truth and Reconciliation is coming to houses of worship, school board meetings, universities, healthcare facilities, diverse workplace, immigrant rights, racial justice, and civic town hall meetings, and in boardrooms. Truth and Reconciliation will soon become a coast-to-coast reassessment in an eyes-wide-open national repentance, a reset, and a cultural shift to solidify this idea called the American multiethnic democracy. Ultimately, what would it look like? Would it be a future government initiative or would it emanate from the grassroots.

On America’s 249th anniversary month, we stand at the threshold of becoming a majority minority nation. Three-Fifths Magazine ask the questions who are we, and what do we want to be?