Commentary: A Call to Shalom—and Being Better Than “Best”

The future alone—and ultimately, the “I Will Be Who I Be”, the Creator of all time—will judge which was the true United States of America from 2016 to 2020 and hereafter, and who were the true Americans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical ethnic prejudices (not to mention other prejudices) of the day (for example, gender prejudices), or those Americans pure in heart, soul, and mind, heirs to the great Americans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.

....Actually, I just changed and added a few words. The original was the following quote from Edmund Husserl: 

“The future alone will judge which was the true Germany in 1933, and who were the true Germans—those who subscribe to the more or less materialistic-mythical racial prejudices of the day, or those Germans pure in heart and mind, heirs to the great Germans of the past whose tradition they revere and perpetuate.”

Every one of us needs to consider that this year as we vote, follow current events, and live our day-to-day lives coexistingly alongside fellow Americans and the strangers within our midst, even if we agree to disagree with them—especially if we ourselves are strangers because we are in various diasporas, and we can at least walk with others inasfar as we do agree with them.