This just in…a new report indicates that for the first time ever in the history of this country, more babies of color will be born than white babies. Duh… I saw that coming more than ten years ago. It’s all part of the “global evolution” that is happening right now. A lot of people became upset with President Barack Obama when he said that his opinion about same sex marriages has evolved over the years. I know just want he was saying. I’ve gone through that evolution too. If two people love each other, then it is their choice on how to express that love.
It was interesting that the President said that when he talked with his daughters, they didn’t have a clue that there was anything “wrong” with same sex marriages because they had friends and knew several family members in those relationships. The same thing is about to happen is the “outrage” over interracial marriage. It is my prediction that in the next 10 years, the terms “Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, etc.” will be totally irrelevant because of the number of “mixed marriages” going on now. Since I just completed the first half of my life, I remember how any type of mixing of the races was strictly taboo on both sides of the fence. Now, look how all that has changed in the last 50 years. I can not imagine how things will evolve in the second half of my life. The evolution is also picking up speed and change is more rapid than ever before.
My profession, the news industry, didn’t recognize the signs of this evolution or they chose to ignore it. Now they are paying the price. The news industry is NOTHING like the profession I joined more than 30 years ago. We are doing journalism differently. But it is in a state of evolution so things will be different in the news industry in just the next five years.
Stop for a minute and visualize what you think will be going on in your world in 10-20 years. I know I sound like my grandmother or my mother, but “things ain’t the way they used to be and it’s not going back.” I used to think they were old fashioned when they said that. But now I hear myself saying it all the time.
Now there are a few things that I don’t like about this global evolution.
1. Violence is too pervasive all over the world, from child exploitation, to murder to genocide. We’ve got to find some solutions to deal with this hideous obsession.
2. The financial world as we know it is making some serious mistakes. They are also living by the “old school” ways and it’s not working. There is a tempest in the teapots in countries across the world.
3. We need to think about STANDARDS and how we need to take a look at what has worked in the past like respect, outreach, caring and not tolerating ignorance and bad behavior.
This is all new for me too. But I am riding the wave of change and I’m still standing.
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