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1 Thing You Can Do to Gain the Lasting Respect of Others
Be Straight
Stop trying to make the facts conform to your conviction.
Don’t merely pull out statistics to support your assertion.
Don’t quote the scriptures to confirm your theology.
And stop smirking because you’re convinced that the word “straight” cannot be used for anything other than the opposite of “gay.”
Come with me and we’ll practice:
Abortion kills something.
Religion has very little to do with faith.
Brain injuries are horrible and shouldn’t be marginalized.
The founding fathers warned against religion as much as they praised it.
Guns don’t control themselves.
North Korea is not a Superpower.
Climate change is real enough that we need to get real about it.
Drugs are dangerous—all drugs.
Poverty will not go away. Do what you can.
Wealth is all in who has it.
As far as gender, it does take two to make one.
Concerning race, no one is better than anyone else.
The truth is not here to confirm your theory, politics, theology or prejudice.
The truth is here to free us from stupidity.
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Comprehend the fight
To do what’s right
BAD
Wrong-headed: Incorrect headed in the wrong direction.
Although some people are critical of our country, I, for one, am astounded that things work as well as they do, considering how wrong-headed we are.
We are misguided. It is not malicious, but certainly is ignorant. And ignorant is a decision to ignore the logical.
Can we start with some stats?
Arguably, the most persecuted minorities in our country are the LGBTQ, Jewish and black communities.
Watching television, you are probably convinced that America is fifty percent gay, because they are well-represented in the entertainment industry and have gained the attention of politicians.
Likewise, if you listen to the pundits discussing the election, you might assume that the Jewish vote is at least thirty percent.
And in a quest to find truth, the number of shows and specials which are produced about the exploitation of the black race might cause you to think they are forty to fifty percent of the population.
Here are the real figures:
From the LGBTQ community itself, it is estimated that 4.5 percent of Americans are gay, Lesbian, transgender and such.
Just 2 percent of the country is Jewish.
And 12.1 percent of America is black.
If you add these three numbers, you come up with 18.6 percent of the census.
They are a threat to no one.
They have no plans nor ability to take over our country and turn it into black power, Zionist or homosexual.
Eighty percent of this country is white or other acceptable shades.
I just want to establish the statistics—for it is bad to begin a discussion believing false information. By no means am I offering these facts to make you think that because the numbers of these minorities are small, that they should be treated with disdain.
I’m just saying that you’ll never reach this country until you realize you are appealing that white people be more generous of spirit.
There’s just not much you can do if you’re gay, Jewish and black to change the heart of the United States of America to make it a home more suitable for your feelings.
If you’re a politician, a minister, a community organizer or just a concerned citizen, you should be motivating your white brothers and sisters to comprehend that this 18.6 percent that receives so much ambivalence, if not anger, are indeed “the least of these, my brethren,” that Jesus referred to when he was discussing those who need the most of our love and attention.
The problem in mentioning Jesus is that even though we tout ourselves “a Christian nation,” the religion of our country is…
SAD
Americanity.
It is a blending of our cultures, our likes, our religion, our prejudices, our egos and remnants of compassion.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.
If Jesus preached today, he would not last for three years. He would stir up trouble, get caught up in the 24-hour news cycle, be declared a cult leader and disgraced in two weeks.
Americanity has three premises:
1. America was founded by Europeans—basically white people.
2. Because of that and many other factors, we consider ourselves to be an “exceptional nation.”
3. Even though we accept an amount of integration, we do not want to lose the power of our white color and composition.
I understand that most people would not admit they have bought into these principles. Nevertheless, they are ingrained in you if you are not gay, Jewish or black.
Let me give you an example:
We are a country that is proud that we freed the slaves. Matter of fact, the average white person would point out that this is acceptable restitution—our gift to the black race for stealing them from Africa.
Now let’s take a Bible story everybody knows:
The children of Israel are slaves in Egypt. Moses wants to free them. Let’s say the Pharaoh agrees to free them, but then the slaves remain in Egypt, hanging around with those people who used to be their masters. How successful would that have been? How important was it for the Jews to escape Egypt, so they could really be free?
Yet in America, we tossed freedom to the black man, but forced him to live, work and worship around his former masters.
We promised “forty acres and a mule” and instead, trapped black families in a history that held them in bondage.
Simultaneously…
MAD
Even though the LGBTQ community, the black race and the Jewish folk are only 18.6 percent of the population, there is a group that is 52 percent, and they are still treated as a minority.
They are women.
They are fighting for their lives; they are struggling for their right to be heard. They are pleading for their bodies—they are demanding an equality that should have been guaranteed long ago.
Before we solve the problems with the gays, the Jews and the blacks, we are desperately in need of a GENDER MENDER: a mingling of education, humor and understanding that closes the gap between men and women.
Can you imagine how much easier it would be to grant equality to other minorities if the treatment of women was mitigated by common sense?
Instead, we pretend that women are about one percent of the population and ask them to stand to the rear and wait their turn.
You cannot solve the problems in the black community until you address the conflict between men and women.
You will not comprehend the difficulties faced by the Jewish race until the bigotry against women is resolved.
And you will never, ever complete the journey of a free America, and open the doors to the LGBTQ community, until men and women in this country arrive at a tender, but firm understanding of their union.
I can certainly assure you, however, that I am…
GLAD
There are young humans living and breathing.
They have survived the shenanigans of twenty years of war, political lying and cheating and murder in their schools.
They have no stomach for Americanity.
And they are completely turned off to the idea that minorities must stand in line and wait their turn.
They are our hope.
Yet even the young humans out there are screwed up on the issue of men and women—borrowing way too much tradition from their parents.
It is time to deal with the BAD. Look at the stats the way they are, realize that America is mostly white and needs to be appealed to for its better angels to make our plans work.
And please, once and for all, can we get rid of the sad Americanity—which believes in red, blue and white supremacy?
I’d like to see us get MAD and start to seek out a way to GENDER MENDER the difficulties between men and women.
Then we can be glad and offer the next generation a better palette, so their painting can be filled with color.
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Overcoming the weak in my week,
I have sought what to seek
BAD
There’s nothing to be achieved by the impeachment of Donald J. Trump.
This is not a statement on his innocence or guilt, but rather, the acknowledgement that such an endeavor is beyond us during this time with the unfolding calendar of the United States of America.
The country is weary–its citizens exhausted.
There is too much to discern to maintain any will to continue to reason.
In less than a year, an election proposed by our constitution, will settle the matter.
Although there are those who insist “an awful lot can happen in a year,” or that they wish to “nail the lid” on a coffin that has already been constructed, I contend that the deed is too costly for what might be guaranteed.
For you see, as a young man I purchased an old, green, Bell Telephone van. It was pukey. But the ugliest part of it was the carpet inside, which ran from steering wheel to back door.
I hated it. It was greasy, grimy, stained and filthy. Anyone who got into my van and saw the floor was surely convinced that I was a no-good slob.
One day I took it upon myself to get rid of that damn carpet.
I will tell you—it had been placed in the van with a notion to keep it there until Jesus had his welcome-back party. I cut, I pulled, I tore and I ripped. I probably got a lifetime of carpet fibers and asbestos up my nose.
After about three hours, I finally ripped up the last piece of carpet, though little portions stubbornly remained.
The underneath floor was just as putrid, requiring me to immediately get another carpet put in.
When I arrived at the back door of the carpet store, where I had been promised free c arpet from left-over jobs, the manager looked in my van and said, “Why’d you tear the old carpet out? You should have shampooed it and then put new carpet on top.”
Here are the facts:
Whether you’re a MAGA enthusiast for the President or you believe he’s the anti-Christ, he was duly elected and is part of our bizarre American history.
If you want him gone, wait for the next election.
Clean him out of Washington.
And lay down a new layer of carpet.
Because impeaching is like tearing out carpet—it’s a helluva project and will leave you with a bigger job at the end.
SAD
Sitting in my chair watching television, I teared up.
Maybe I’m an emotional fool, but sometimes I cry because I realize the great potential and am inundated with the present reality.
As I watched, person after person after show after news broadcast conveyed one message:
“You can’t trust anyone.”
Sometimes it was said sadly, sometimes communicated in anger. But in all cases, it was a definitive proclamation that trusting humans is not only foolish but dangerous.
Yet it will certainly be difficult to solve problems when the people we need to help us have become our enemies.
MAD
I don’t want to be a whiner.
I don’t want to be one of those kinds of guys who bitches about things and refuses to leave well enough alone.
And even though I have an abiding joy in watching college football, I am greatly disturbed at how it is gradually becoming America’s modern-day slave market.
57% of the college football athletes are black.
That is compared to 13% of the general population being that color.
Only 2.8% of the students on campuses are African American.
But 70% of the fan base of college football is Caucasian.
On top of that, sports announcers have begun to discuss the athletes as if they’re specimens instead of human beings.
- “He has a huge, massive chest.”
- “Look at his rock-hard abs.”
- “He has thighs twice the size of a normal boy his age.”
- “He looks like Adonis.”
At first hearing, you might think these are compliments, but actually they are observations—the same kinds of asides spoken by slave-traders as they walked among the young black men, stolen and brought over from Africa.
Granted, some of these young men may be headed for the National Football League, to make much money, unlike their unfortunate ancestors. But this does not rationalize the attitudes, terminology and carelessness with which these human beings are regarded.
Meanwhile, not many people are concerned about their education, integration into human life or even their communication skills.
It is racist.
It may be a gentle racism, or even an entertaining one—but it is racist.
Let’s not get rid of college football, but please—let us cease and desist with the plantation talk.
GLAD
There are three outstanding statements that must be honored for the human race to continue to run well.
1. All humans are created equal.
2. In the kingdom of God, there is neither male nor female.
3. Don’t judge unless you want to be judged.
Every time one, two or dare I say, all three of these, link up to form a circle of understanding, my soul rejoices.
So when “Black Lives Matters” arrived along with the “Me Too Movement,” complete with a new awakening of patriotism in this nation, I didn’t see campaigns at war with one another.
We are gradually beginning to grasp that these ideas, along with many others scattered out there, are like the yarn of understanding that must be knit together, to help us endorse our equality, our genders uniting, and the removal of prejudice.
May they create the circle of understanding that is unbroken.
1 Thing You Can Do This Week (To Become a Better Person)
1 Thing You Can Do This Week (To Become a Better Person)
JUST ADMIT YOU ARE PREJUDICED
Being prejudiced just means that we see things in color, shape, size, style, gender and even finance.
But when it comes to matters of the heart, seeing is not believing. All of us believe things which our eyeballs tell us are different.
The importance of admitting prejudice is to prevent ourselves from becoming bigots, and end up racists.
HIDDEN PREJUDICE IS THE PROBLEM
Just because I see a man who is a different color than myself does not mean I feel that I am better than him, and I certainly do not want to act superior, because then, I will try to find a way to hurt him, which will make me a racist.
America will become free of its racial, cultural, spiritual and gender bias just as soon as we realize that our eyes still see what is set before us.
However, we don’t need to believe what we see, or hold what we see to be sacred.
I am prejudiced.
I still see fat, I still see youth, I still see old, I still see color–but because I admit it, I can confront myself and realize it doesn’t make any difference–and certainly doesn’t make me superior to anyone else on the planet.
Therefore I feel no need to hurt them to make myself look powerful.
So there’s your one thing–if every human being in America would admit they are still haunted by prejudice, we would do away with bigotry in a generation, and racism even quicker.
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1 Thing You Can Do This Week (To Improve the Social Upheaval)
1 Thing You Can Do This Week (To Improve the Social Upheaval)
In an attempt to escape the cruelty of racism and bigotry, about fifty years ago we began to extol the importance of culture. Matter of fact, it became a liberal campaign slogan to promote diversity while, quite honestly, sometimes conservatives used it to scare off their adherents, with the fear of “losing the real America.”
America the Melting Pot
For some reason or another, we began to think we were a nation of many cultures. Actually, the vision for this great experiment of the United States of America was to welcome a populace that was a “melting pot”–each one of us dissolving into the other, with our customs, styles and ideas, to form one nation indivisible.
So ironically, in an attempt to create greater acceptance, we have generated more hostility and intolerance.
So the one thing you–and I–can do this week is:
Stop Promoting Your Tribe
It doesn’t matter whether it’s a political party, a church, a zealous business endeavor, a race, a religion, a sexual orientation or a gender. What is tearing us apart is the belief that the more fragmented we are, the greater the possibility of celebrating individuality.
We’ve even done this with our families, believing that our genetic code has more significance than that of the gentleman or lady driving beside us on the freeway. Whether it meets your approval, or even if you find it comforting to be in a small category, it damages the overall peace of mind and well-being of our nation.
Celebrate Similarities
- There are no chosen people.
- No race is better than another.
- Spirituality is known by what spirituality does.
- And my family is not better than your family.
Until we abandon the foolishness of segregating ourselves in the name of integrating variety, we will be at each other’s throats. Take this week to find similarities, and when you find them, pronounce them and celebrate them with those around you.
In so doing, you will repair the breech instead of widening it.
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Salient…July 23rd, 2018
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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
Make a statement. Avoid questioning.
And by questioning, I mean the assumptions that other human beings draw about you based on very little information.
For some reason, we, as people, feel no need to apply facts when it comes to deciding who somebody really is, since they haven’t clearly stated their position one way or another.
This quick-to-the-punch evaluation can be based on facial expression, body language, race, gender, sexual orientation or whim.
If you don’t make a statement about things in life, you leave it to others to come with the questions, or to question for themselves and then form conclusions–which more than likely will be far from true.
Yet, because we have become so politically correct, afraid to voice an opinion for fear of being offensive, answers like “I don’t know” or “that’s a tough one,” or one I personally disfavor, “I guess it depends on the circumstances,” are prevalent.
Make a statement. Avoid questioning.
Let me give you some examples:
- I do not believe in killing anything unless I plan on eating it.
- I also decided not to judge anyone at any time unless I’m wearing a long, black robe and have a gavel in my hand (so far no offers).
- Every week I evaluate my compassion, success and motivation on whether I end up giving more than taking.
- And I freely admit that I’m a bigot. I favor one race. The human race.
So there you go.
Because I make statements, you don’t have to exhaust yourself coming up with a list of inquiries or challenging me in your private thoughts, developing your own profile about me.
So here is your salient moment:
If you’re not afraid to make a statement about what you believe, then you won’t have to field so many questions about what truly and honestly is in your heart.
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