The Need To Always Be Right Can Hurt Us All

David Hogan
Leeds, AL

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A week later and media sources are STILL trying to find MORE wrong with the Covington, Ky students / Native American meeting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

There is PLENTY to learn.

• Maybe the Native American might have spoken in plain English to the young man instead of waiting until after to speak to press.
• Maybe the young man might have asked the elder if he wanted him to move or had anything to say.
• Maybe the school could admit to poor chaperoning
• Maybe those making a big deal about a hat and what it "means" to others might realize like it or not it is an expression of Free Speech and those griping also wear their symbols no matter how they try to scale one against the other.
• Maybe THIS, and Maybe THAT.

And MAYBE just maybe we ALL quit trying to one up the other "side" and maybe just maybe say hey we can do better, we can ask when we don't know, we can communicate in forms each of us CAN understand, IF we care enough to reach out.

Or just keep trying to BE RIGHT and let that cortisol building up take us to an early grave with I WAS RIGHT on our tombstones, THEN we can bitch about which tombstone is right.