I love, appreciate, and respect everyone that chose the difficult and underappreciated task of taking on the challenge to help shape people's perceptions towards a more objective understanding. Without it, there's no possible way for the ultimate goal of reconciliation and societies built on tolerance to continue. The call to do more went from witnessing to actuation, with some answering that call and others choosing to stay in the roles in which they saw most fit in order to address the complexity of the situation from their position in life.
If the line was drawn, clearly, a long time ago, then the belligerents picked their sides, their plans and contingencies were set in motion, and the (last?) battle for influence over the minds of people ensued. That battle still rages, with the lines being drawn more clearly with each passing day. Both sides engaged the public to observe the events to unfold. Both sides demand your attention. Both sides want your allegiance.
Both sides make their case; whether it's appeal to emotion, appeal to logic, or some sly "knowingly" combination of both. Being human, after all, is a lifetime of both logic and emotion in a perpetual dance to develop an understanding of the subjective experience you shape as you author your journey; even if you realize, later, that your authorship is still prescribed by someone else, or their thoughts and direction. This is the illusion of choice, or as some have said, "The Simulation". Those that know how this works use it against you to create separation between you and those around you. True knowledge doesn't come from being told what to think or how to feel. The observer must draw their own conclusions after exposure to ideas, events, and people. Unfortunately, the order of exposure often plays the dominant role in the eventual outcome of perceptions. That's why bad people target youth with unfortunate and inhumane conditions; to shape them for conflict later in life.
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed."
-William Blake
So where does a person continue from there? It seems as though what a person values most, as the reality of the world takes shape in the culmination of their perceptions through experiences, is revealed in the end. That is when one learns about who they really are. Even then, this is just another bargain of choices afforded only to those that take their journey to that point. They realize that they may not have reached the end, yet, but it may as well be because they've developed some sense of who they are by now. But wanting and desiring to be someone (or some thing) isn't enough to make it a reality. The circumstances to shape a dream into reality are beyond most people's control as individuals. That is a power over reality held by others, and controlled by a scripted existence that they, themselves, adhere to as strictly as any religion. The term "gatekeeper" seems relevant. Not just gatekeepers of wealth, but gatekeepers of opportunity and circumstances in conjunction with wealth. A seat at the table, for most, requires giving up more than they are willing. That's a rigged game.
Maybe by this point a person realizes the significance of their contribution at the local level. The more resources you have, the more change you can affect. Maybe by this point a person realizes the significance of their contributions at a larger level. Again, the more resources you have, the more change you can affect. Maybe by this point a person realizes the significance of their contribution on the world stage. Yep; the more resources you have, the more change you can affect. All the world's a stage, right? A stage. The ones that control the stage control the pace of progress. The message the controller wants the world to see becomes the narrative of right and wrong for some, and a proclamation of war against humanity in the thoughts of others.