SENSITIZE 31
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Today: “Dem’s fightin’ words!” Jonathan talks about “unique freaks.”
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1 Thing We Need to Stop Saying if We Want Things to Get Better
“There is no one quite like me.”
Yes, there is.
And yes, there are.
Millions and billions of human cousins inhabit a small sphere floating in an enormous cosmos, with the heavens declaring, “Be fruitful and multiply,” not “Be fruitful and specify.”
We have so much in common that we fight.
We are a multiplication desperately attempting to avoid division.
If our beauty is skin deep and our color barely covers a first coat, then what lies inside us is equally internal and eternal.
Beware those who desire to gain by stealing the precious identity and purpose of others.
There is someone like you.
There are many like you.
You are set aside from the animal kingdom to be a part of the human race.
You are worth many sparrows.
But you are not sharing a different neighborhood.
It is contingent on those who understand that there is no temptation that is not common to us all—nor any blessing that should be withheld—to step forward and silence the money-grubbing, selfish sons-of-a-bitches who want to turn us against one another just so for a moment, they can look on their offspring as superior.
This is the one thing we must stop saying. “There is no one quite like me.”
If you are not happy being part of an eight-billion-person party, then please quietly go off by yourself with your own bag of chips to the nearest cave—and feel special.
Sit Down Comedy … September 6th, 2019
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Everyone sing along!
He’s a racist
She’s a racist
You’re a racist
I’m a racist
Wouldn’t you like to be a racist too?
Show your faces
Come be a racist
From all places
We are all racists.
Sitting on a park bench, a dog walks by, thistles stuck in its fur, dried fecal matter on its leg hair. Our reaction? “Poor puppy.” Matter of fact, we might look through our pockets to see if we might have a snack to offer the unfortunate creature.
Same day, same park.
A homeless man strolls by—dirty pants, nine-day-old growth of beard and tousled hair. We look at him and conclude, “Goddam bum.”
You see, it doesn’t matter what color we are. It isn’t as if white people don’t hate white people or black, black. Brown folks hate the various shades of beige, Asians attack Asians, and the Cherokee nation, the Navajo tribe.
It is not a color issue.
It is not a culture situation. It’s not a religious affiliation. After all, the Baptists bicker with the Baptists, the Catholics abuse their own, the Jews pull rank on one another and the Muslim terrorists kill more Muslims than Christians.
Staying with that dog example, if we were dogs, the human race would be pit bulls, adamantly insisting that the problem is not our breed, but rather, how we were trained.
Candidly, it wouldn’t matter if we finally found a way through eugenics to come up with one, single color for all Homo Sapiens. We would still commence murdering one another over eyebrows.
It may seem easier to blame it on color scheme, religion or patriotism, but we all are human racists. Allegedly, the first murder was committed by one brother on another brother.
In other words, they looked alike.
If we don’t get rid of human racism—an ironic hatred for our own beings—we will never be able to overcome the lack of similarities accomplished by evolution.
Here’s what causes human racism, if you’re interested in actually addressing it and once and for all identifying it in your being:
1. I need to be special.
Actually, you’re not, my friend—not unless you decide to do or be something special to the world around you.
2. I need to stand out.
The chances of that happening are few, and then could always be caused by your iniquity instead of your contribution to goodness.
3. I need to withhold praise just in case…
Yes, because you’re frightened that you won’t be appreciated enough, you decide to keep focus on yourself instead of valuing the gifts of others, even when their inspiration has benefitted you.
4. I need to hurt somebody.
Perhaps you prefer to do it in a civil way, using gossip or innuendo, but if necessary—if you find others completely annoying—you are willing to kill them for the cause of your country, your family or your Christ. So please, trace racism back to where it began:
Despising others because we’re dissatisfied with ourselves.
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Assumed Supremacy… March 26, 2013
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Thirty excited children in a classroom–wiggling, squirming, trying not to talk out loud for fear of correction, waiting for the school day to begin.
The teacher stands, calms down the hum of thrill and says, “Repeat after me: I am special.”
Thirty young voices respond in unison.
The teacher continues. “I am unique.”
Again, a chorus of youngsters faithfully parrot the phrase.
The teacher concludes, “People need to accept me.”
As the classroom finishes the last phrase, they cheer and clap their hands. Thus begins the school day.
There is an assumed supremacy being passed on in our time under the guise of establishing good self-esteem.
It began in the Garden of Eden when Eve was tempted, convinced that eating some magical fruit would make her smarter. It continued with her sons battling for supremacy, ending in a notorious murder.
Moving along in history, you had Pharoah, who needed to oppress the Jewish nation in order to confirm his own dominance. Alexander proclaimed himself Great to get license to conquer and oppress the world.
Even though we are an honorable nation, our history is speckled with an inclination to be superior, whether it was the Native Americans, the blacks from Africa, the Chinese–well, each and every country arriving here had to take its turn at being presumed inferior.
It was the byline of a man named Adolph, who rose to power in Germany by telling the populace that they were “special, unique and people needed to accept them.” In the process of establishing this assumed supremacy, other folks needed to be shoved into gas chambers to confirm the concept.
You can see, it is a dangerous philosophy. It is a mindset that causes people to settle in, accepting their own eccentric behavior instead of soul-searching for better choices. It is a universal drug of words poured into the mainstream of entertainment and education, which dopes up the public to believe that since “we were born” some certain way, there really is no need to be “born again.”
Any sensation of supremacy will eventually need to reinforce its point with violence. Any challenge to our supremacy will require that we defend ourselves and commit acts of treachery. We will end up surprising ourselves with how bigoted, angry and frustrated we are if we persist in pursuing the false premise that “we are fine as we are.”
A certain amount of dissatisfaction is necessary to find lasting satisfaction. So since this pseudo self-esteem has come in the front door of our culture, what can we do to address it kindly, but usher it out the back door?
That sounds like a great topic for tomorrow.
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