Shifting paradigms and powers from morally repugnant leadership to morally caring leadership

These are uncertain times; and we are all experiencing them socially, economically, politically, and educationally. There is a psychological unsteadiness in the air; and, the sense and wave of it brings a startling fillip for many. There is the temptation to blame natural laws or other phenomena and there is also the temptation to attach the uneasiness to some spiritual underpinnings. As scholars and professionals in the fields of general and special education, we do not profess to be Pastors, Priests, Evangelists, Imams, Rabbis, or other holy ones who can do true justice to religious and ecumenical analyses and interpretations about morality. And, we are ill-equipped to make resounding judgments about what is or what is not morally right or repugnant. However, we do know that “goodness” exposes itself in the ways people act, in the ways people talk, in the ways people teach, in the kinds of consequential scholarship that people do, in the kinds of services that people are involved in, in the ways people lead, and in the ways people work with each other. Our professional experiences inform us that our professional activities have some spiritual connectivity that speaks a lot about us (Obiakor, 2001). And, we have learned that morally repugnant or bankrupt people do not demonstrate decent professional behaviors, whether they are teachers, scholars, and leaders (Obiakor, 2018, 2020). A logical extension is that such individuals cannot be good servant leaders and/or good multicultural leaders who can have positive impacts on people. It is now common knowledge that our world is changing demographically and technologically (Gibson & Obiakor, 2018); and, it is also clear that these changes are causing some cultural uneasiness and collusion. Consider a few examples: First, the recent coronavirus pandemic was quick to spread because people are traveling all over the world and interacting interdependently in multidimensional ways that can be scary. Second, issues of police brutalities and killings of Blacks,