if 'the rock'
Dwayne Johnson can admit to depression and tears in his younger years then I can admit to being crazy saddened in my older years with despair at the current state of affairs on this ship of state being driven unto the rocks by FOOLS!!!! I lay in bed this morning thinking of how I dodged the cancer bullet this time and right on cue I began to wonder why. Christians tell me it is a blessing from God. I say, "I guess" because I truly do not understand the Christian's God. But that is a subject for another time and place. This OP is about the viciousness and hate based in skin color racism and bigotry in a country, STEEPED in historical and ethical hypocrisy, that has been built upon lies. And I know this is a fact in all countries with bloodstained land.
I am despairing because at 70 years of age the gains made by minorities, AA primarily, have been put in extreme jeopardy by a coterie of hateful racist FOOLS with a political base of FOOLS that are of the same unhinged ugly nature as their own Mussolini clone and his administration.
And don't misunderstand me. A country that has been built upon the vicious and bloody genocidal slaughter of many nations of the first occupants of this land and the forced slavery of unwilling people(s) of many cultures into the service, of primarily, one race's hunt for profit in cotton and tobacco, their personal comfort and and the sating of different human drives, cannot be anything but hypocritically and I think fatally flawed
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Then a bloody butchery prosecuted by a southern culture disguising it's need to savagely enforce american slavery, as a fight for 'states rights', that resulted in the killing and raping of hundreds of millions of African men, women and children here, in the Islands and other African slave holding nations and during the capture and 'Middle Passage' of the hapless African slave. Here in ameriKKKa, the 'great emancipator' was nothing more than a pragmatist trying to hold together a union of states with no real concern for the African held in bondage. Meanwhile the grisly and gory genocidal slaughter of the native-american nation(s) continued unabated. Then after the state's rights War
was over the 'wild west' mentality which was born out of western expansion, by the European extracted individuals, who had a cultural bent toward violence, I only have to look at the European history of those nations who made constant war upon each other, really picked up steam. Guns, expansion, railroads many guns, U.S. Army freed from fighting the racists now turned their sights westward, thousands of guns. And I do understand the 'Buffalo soldier' contingents used by the military in the southwest campaigns. Although as I see it, it is a stain on AA history. Yet the motivations that drove the AA soldier to want to fight still did not help eradicate or even lessen white soldier or general cultural white racism.
So I see a stain. More later....
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we can only hope it bends soon.....thank you for that...it does help an old lion...
A record of disdain toward it, that potusPOS, would be cool, from as many as possible in the next 6+ years
Disgusting human being
We do not have to all believe the same thing to be in the same fight and on the same side. You are in the fight and that's more than enough for me. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do.
My mother is younger than you and my grandmother is older than you. However, both ladies have endured and continue to be subjected to a pain that few outside of the minority experience could ever understand. Despite their education and accomplishments, they've been oppressed professionally and economically. Yet, in spite of it all, they continue to not only persevere....... they thrive!
These two Black women and people like you, are my heroes. You are walking history.... our story. I don't have to tell you that every thing goes around in circles. It seems that we fight the same fights/battles over and over again. Well, that's exactly what we are doing. Each battle or fight gets us just a tiny bit of progress. That's just the way it is.
As our venerated warriors fall back to become generals and advisors, newer warriors take on the fight. We need your wisdom, encouragement, and spirit.
Faith, my friend. Faith that we will continue to persevere. Faith that the country is better than its current leaders. Have faith that our allies really are our allies and that they will make the right decisions for the benefit of all their countrymen. Faith that our white brothers and sisters are starting to get the memo that we really are all in this together. Faith, my friend.
I always enjoy your posts. I hope that you'll continue to share your stories and experiences.
I will maintain. And with your generation of fighting spirit in rejecting the lies and racism of local governments who let murderers under cover of badges and state authority continue to execute unarmed AA I feel comfortable that the racists will know WE and allies will be there to call out the lies. And the school children, like the ones marching and demanding action on the clear and present danger they are enduring with the weapons in the hands of racist, troubled individuals give me a bright hope the battle has been engaged against those protecting 300,000,000 million guns in private hands in ameriKKKa and that they will not continue to get a free pass.
Your mother and grandmother are people to be proud of, I am. Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I add mine to you..
