BLACK LIVES MATTER…
Great bumper sticker, great blame game rally cry, great for
finger pointing, but not valid as a weapon.
As a society glued to our media sources, we are being led to the sacrificial
alters of color and wealth discrepancy baiters.
I am in total agreement that Black Lives Matter but
there is more to it than just being a biased trigger that further separates us
from one another.
We have all sorts of wealth hoarders in our country that
kneel, before the alter mentioned above, as esteemed members of our professional
sports heroes, our political government members, our media and entertainment
guru’s that look at every opportunity to appear better morally than the rest of
us. Granted a number of the top 5% of the
wealth owners in our country are very generous toward all of humanity, but how
many focus on the discrepancies in our own society? How many of them are really trying to improve
the conditions that they blame other folks for causing.
The current blame name-calling on our
society white privilege and systemic racism rank #1 and #2 as the cause
for lack of employment opportunity; poor access to good education;
homelessness; little or no access to home residence; low income; unfair law
enforcement practices; unequal racial incarcerations, etc.. Probably some truth
in that view point but perhaps the finger is being pointed in the wrong
direction. It seems
that most of this will take money to
correct, some take congressional action and some need the local governments to
do their job. None of the solutions are
really affected by race but by inaction.
Political decisions in the past have been to merely throw
money at the causes of the fear, the causes of the lack of schooling,
opportunity and jobs go unattended. Jobs
will not be readily available in the neighborhoods that children help provide
food by being in gang families.
People will be afraid of gangs and those who dress and act like gang
members. Jobs will not be available as
an escape as long as those children of a good high school education.
That’s where standing up and taking positive action comes
into a solution. The act of kneeling
instead of respecting our flag and our country, gives you sports heroes a
chance to affect young minds' opportunity to respect something other than the
neighborhood boss. Petitioning the
local governments to allow school choice rather than buying union votes is a
solution that you as local heroes could have a large impact on those
neighborhoods that suffer the lifetime loss of the self-pride that knowledge
can provide.
The use of your dollars to help start new and help the
existing neighborhood businesses. I’m
sure that you folks who are so involved with creating change in the attitudes
of everyone else can think of hundreds of ways to bring the oppressed out of
their miserable conditions.
Rather than promote the feelings of fear regarding law
enforcement you might try some of the above ways of using your wealth to create
opportunities. A large portion of the
systematic racism that affects our society is a result of fear of the unknown
response we are prone to expect. When
some of us interpret our world through color, the word some is translated as
all.
When most people encounter a young man covered in tattoos,
pants worn with waistlines well below the cheeks of buttocks and talking with
street language most will not expect good.
Law enforcement personnel are the same way we don’t imagine that having
lunch or dinner with them. You who are
looked up to as role models and men and women to emulate due to your abilities
in sports and the dollars you bank or spend have a great opportunity to help a
lot of our population, not fear those who are different. You have a chance to contribute to change not
just awareness. You have an opportunity to
create minds that look at all the facts not just the tragedies that do
occur. You have an obligation to help
create the changes we need as a society.
We all respect your abilities, help us respect each other.
God Bless our country, our people, and our first responders.
I SEE A LOT OF THEM IN THE NEWS AND ON THE TV. THEY JUST DON’T SEEM TO SEE THINGS THE SAME
AS ME
THEY SEE HATRED AND ANGER WHERE EVER THEY LOOK
WHEN I LOOK OUT AT THE WORLD THIS IS WHAT I SEE
I SEE CHILDREN SINGING WITH JOY IN THEIR VOICE
I SEE PARENTS LOVING GIVING LIFE AS THEIR CHOICE
I SEE BLINDNESS OF COLOR IN THE MAKING OF MAN
I SEE SAMENESS IN ALL,
JUST THE ONE RACE… HUMAN
