9/11 After math is science & study!

Kris Jenner interviewed by Savannah Guthrie   

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The Today Show took a lot of flack for interviewing reality star and business woman, Kris Jenner instead of switching to the President's memorial for the 9/11 victims. In their defense NBC sighted their considerable work on the subject during their morning show. They aired the moment of silence during its West coast broadcast. The network's local affiliate WNBC-4, moreover, cut the "Today" Show to air its self-produced special coverage to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Good for them.

Showing respect for the dead I understand. Honoring the dead who were surprised into their deaths as if they were heroes is and has always been baffling a conclusion to draw, for me. Pausing respectful with a heavy heart for the sudden and awful way those three thousand people died in New York, DC, and Pennsylvania is very much in the make up and part of who we are as a species. But, as a man my national question leads me away from sentimentality and wants to know what was gained, or learned from those deaths? If our entire purpose of honoring those people is to sustain the initial emotions after the attacks we are imbeciles, or more politely a people not worthy of global concern. If those deaths have taught us anything it has shown us how we are perceived as a nation. Whether and how we accept, respond and believe about ourselves our mythology determines some consequences down the road we certainly are not ready for. If we were visionaries or simply honest we'd see how to be logical and follow the trail of our beliefs and study the ripple effects of our actions. Do we? No, I submit we don't and can't because of our national beliefs, our history, and our structural non-analysis of our core institution: slavery! 

Now, what is the spirit behind the complaint against the Today Show's producers and NBC decision makers? What are the complaints and how could anyone be offended? Is the network being told to 'follow the bouncing ball', or else by the public? That's is bullying. That is what it is: bullying. It is the same kind of bullying that earmarked the following years after the attacks: dictatorial patriotism!

There is something in the air indiscernible to one sensibility and clear to another, and it is what we have not learned as a nation about ourselves. How do we move past the mentality that narrows reconciliation into oblivion? How do we move through our national biases and plunge into what ails our soul? There are more and more fundamental questions to ask of ourselves individually and collectively. But, the fundamental question is do we want to form those questions into action? Apparently not. If not now, when? When it is too late and the chickens have come home to roost? 

Gregory E. Woods, 

Keeper of Stories 

9.13.14 

Kris Jenner getting feet & hands taken care of !!!!