I share this short story to infuse a fact, not oppose those who post their opinions. As human beings by conjecture, we spend more time, in general, not necessarily complaining, but like the idiom “two ships passing in the night.” Therefore, we can go through life with dysfunctional communication. In the early 70s, I was a Facilitator in Race Relations for the US Navy. During one of my classes, a participant called me an ideologue. At the time, in gesture, I acknowledged his assessment as a truth. Defined as one who is taken to whimsical ideas or theories; someone who theorizes and or investigates further. This, I believe, was my nature, instigated through fantasy and wishful thinking. Which was the zenith of what I fed myself through my reading as a child. On the first night of a three-day class, I searched ideologue to give meaning to my Soul as justification for my feelings. The next day I presented this question to the class. What is an ideologue? Only the same individual spoke up with this answer in summary: “Someone who espouses a particular belief, particularly a political one.” Concluding to me, our principles of thought were not on the same page. He invoked politics, like the difference between idealism and realism, which is the essence of cause and effect. We turned the page and started the next paragraph together. He was flabbergasted that I was not analytically defensive. The moral of this story: “First impressions can become the obstacle to graceful communications.” And that “Graceful acceptance of negative opinions will not diminish the integrity of one’s Soul.” It becomes a pathway to gainful communication. When we communicate with others, people we do not like, strangers, even loved ones, with concealed grudges, thoughts tainted with detest, and soiled with gossip, we spoil our chances to grow in the glory of knowledge. We hear abstractly what others say, as we are listening mainly to the impediments instilled in the mind’s eye. Now, Critical Race Theory has entered the same conundrum as Defund the Police. Both have wide implications.