Okay, by now, most of YOU that read my stuff know pretty much that I basically "tell it like it is". Everybody is fair game. Even though I will get on someone's case in a hurry, I will also give props and respect where they are do. That's only the right thing to do, most of the time.
This past week, November 3rd-November 8th, I spent the majority of it with people from around the globe who were here in Orlando for a major convention. I'm talking about people from The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Russia, France, UK, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Canada, Pakistan, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Norway, Italy, China and on and on. Some of the things that were said to me matter of factly, or, presented as questions were:
1) Everyone noticed the big differences in neighborhoods and the disparities between races. They mentioned how they were responded to so much differently depending on whether they were dealing with whites, blacks, hispanic or asian.
2) A majority of my clients, in round about ways, basically said "we have very little class". Actually, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Just go out in public these days and even YOU could figure that one.
3) A significant number also voiced their opinion that "we have so much in this country to be thankful for, yet seem not to appreciate it". Amen to that.
4) And last, but certainly not least, everybody wanted to know "why the people of this country voted for George Bush the second time"? "What were these people thinking"? Well, I gave them the answer they were trying to infer, "the people that voted for Bush the second time were freaking brain washed asleep at the wheel IDIOTS"! "That do not have a clue what is going on in the real world".
In short, it was a very good mind stimulating week for me and a couple of my buddies. To sum things up on behalf of pretty much the rest of the world, "the stature, influence, importance, class, leadership and direction of the United States of America, is pretty much in the toilet these days. We need a serious awakening and rethink moving forward. If not, we will wind up being some other major power's bitch! YOU can bank that!
Peace and Renaissance,
1 comment:
Your client’s observations are challenging and thought provoking. For instance, #4: Even with 89% of America asleep at the wheel wondering about how they will get a better wheel to be asleep behind, Bush got elected the second time because the election was “given” to the man with the fewer votes; Ironically, the pivotal state for recount being overseen by his brother. That election was the greatest warning for America to wake up since the invention of terrorism on 9/11.
# 2-3: No class or gratitude. Both require a consideration of how one carries oneself through life. They require, to some degree, a consciousness of humility, thankfulness and consideration for others. People sleeping drool out the sides of their mouth, steal all the blankets, will push you out of bed if room gets scarce and generally behave as though they are alone in the universe. Most of this can be chalked up to the lack of consciousness associated with sleeping. Your friends are reporting on a population pretending to be awake (as they sleep behind the wheel). No consciousness, no class. No humility, no gratitude.
#1: I felt all the white folks in your audience squirm with these comments. After all, we all know that racism, prejudice and systematic discrimination were stomped out years ago, right? One little example: I interviewed for a job with the State of Louisiana a couple weeks ago. It was to work in a facility for incarcerated, mentally ill, adolescent boys; in short, teenagers acting wild. Though their psychological deficits were acknowledged and supposedly addressed, this remained a clearly designated facility of incarceration, not treatment or rehabilitation. During the interview, it being Louisiana, I asked the ethnic make-up of the population. No lie, 70% Black, 8-10% Hispanic, the rest Asian and white. My next question (since Louisiana is not known as a hot-bed of Eastern cultures) was simple; if only 13% of the general population (Blacks) make up 70% of your incarcerated population, what are all the white kids doing with their free time? The Black’s interviewing had sheepish smiles, while the white director attempted to sell the virtues of the resources available to the kids they had. My departing comment was, “With statistics like that, you need society behind the barbed-wire rather than the kids.”
Your friends are correct. Amerikkka wobbles on such a slippery-slope right now that our future looks more Macarena than anything. The Euro sailed past the dollar in value this week. Toys that some of us remember playing with 50 years ago are just being identified as having enough lead to sink a battleship, while other toys have enough “Roofies” to put half the country out. And in the middle we have a shit-eatin’ grinnin’ president cutting funding for health care to kids. We have governors wanting to “give” driver’s licenses to illegal aliens (now children, can we all say “i-l-l-e-g-a-l”…good, it means criminal). Eh, I love my Espanola brothers, but if you’re gonna bust every nigger that sells a nickel-bag, then, please let’s freely share the rewards of “illegality”. I mean, come on. We are talking about folks that “by definition” literally ain’t suppose to be here. If Mexico was a country full of people the color of our brothers in sub-Sahara Africa, there would have been an electrified fence, six stories high with electrified razor-wire at the top. There would be a two-mile wide moat on both sides of the fence full of Great White sharks, crocodiles and a sprinkling of poisonous jellyfish. Gun boats would patrol ever inch
and shoot anything that did not naturally breathe underwater. Take it to the bank. There would be no border problem and we would have to look to the skies to find aliens that weren’t suppose to be here.
We are sitting back and watching a significant percentage of our high schools graduating less than 60% of their students. In some places it is a flip of the coin whether kids graduate or not, 50-50 odds. People with cancer, can’t afford to get treatment; unless they catch up with Montel Williams and his orange bus, touting the virtues of the pharmaceutical cartels that own this country. Yea, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a foreigner to glimpse the frail scaffolding upon which Amerikkka rests. And in the words of that inspirational song…”God Bless America, our home, sweet, home”…….cause if He don’t we are in deep-do-do.
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