Month: August 2017

I am really struggling with a way to write about what is going on today.  The world, especially the U.S. is in a peculiar and disturbing phase.  People are saying all white people are inherently racist just because they were born white….but isn’t this racism?  Saying that all people who have a certain skin tone share certain characteristics solely because of their skin tone?  Is that not the definition of racism?  And it is not just black or brown people saying this, it’s white people.

I was raised to treat each person as an individual.  Regardless of where they came from, what color their skin was, what religion they followed.  If they treated me decent, I treated them decent in return.  If they were nasty to me or in general lazy and worthless, then I had only contempt for them.  I grew up in an area where there were very few black people.  One black girl in my entire high school.  So most of the people I viewed as lazy and worthless were white.  I had no opinion about blacks or hispanics because I was never around them.  Then I moved south.

So now I am surrounded by black people and hispanics all day, every day.  For the most part, they are just like the white people I was surrounded by growing up.  Some good, some bad, mostly just people I don’t even notice.  I would say that most days, I have more interactions with nonwhites than with whites.  I don’t look at them and think any differently about them than I would a white person.  If I go to Zaxby’s and get bad service, I don’t care what color you are, I will complain.  If I go to Zaxby’s and get great service, I smile and say thank you.

I get why nonwhites hate being labelled.  I totally understand that SOME of them are unfairly portrayed as lazy, stupid, etc.  But some of them ARE lazy, stupid, etc.  The same way they don’t all like to be lumped together, neither do whites want to be lumped together.  Being born white did not confer some special place in life, unless you were born white and RICH.  Labeling other groups all as one entity is never right.   Yes, I am sure that racism exists in the white population.  I am just as sure that it exists in the nonwhite population.  I worked in a factory for 6 years while in school.  I was one of  only 5 or 6 white women that worked there.  I was treated better by the black women than what they termed ‘high yellow’ women that also worked there.  I didn’t coin that phrase.  I also didn’t understand their animosity towards someone characterized as part of their group.  That is a form of racism.  They were judging her by the color of her skin.

Turning the tables may sound satisfying.  Making sure whitey gets his may sound like fun.  It doesn’t solve your problems though.  If your problem is poverty and lack of education, how does labeling all white people racist fix that?  Wouldn’t energy be better spent trying to make sure education was better and finding ways to deal with poverty that actually work?  All these protests and the money spent on them have not helped one person out of poverty.

 

So, it’s been a while since I last wrote anything and wow, have things changed.  If you are a Democrat, the sky has fallen and Armageddon is imminent.  If you are a Republican, well, your are just not sure.  Your guy won, but the world has gone to hell in a handbasket since.

It is a new world where a sitting president is NOT a politician.  Who ever thought that could actually happen?  He doesn’t care about making other lawmakers happy or appeasing the media.  He only cares about his agenda.  If you listen to CNN, his agenda is bigotry, islamaphobia, homophobia, war mongering, sexism……and whatever else they think is bad.  If you actually listen to his words—-and that means you listen to them without 20 people interpreting them for you and you listen to them in context and you listen to the whole speech–then perhaps you might see an agenda that is geared towards making this country a super power again.  He wants to make it an economic super power, a military super power.  He wants us to be leaders again.  This is a big deal.

For 8 years under Obama, we watched our leader apologize and give away power.  We cannot effectively help anyone if we are not powerful.  If we want to negotiate for someone who has found themselves at the mercy of some third world maniac, we had better have a big stick to back it up.  It doesn’t mean you have to use the stick, but you better have one.  Try negotiating with an armed robber if you don’t have a gun…….

So, the big stink since last weekend is that Trump said both sides were to blame.  Both sides were violent.  And people went nuts……why?  The went nuts because he said what everyone else was afraid to say.  He did say that Nazi’s and their ilk were bad, but he also said that there was plenty of blame to go around.  He never said that a Nazi sympathizer was justified in killing a woman, but you’d think he did by the way the news has covered it.

Charlottesville is a grand example of the Brave New World.  It’s a prime example of history being sacrificed in the name of hurt feelings.  People claim that they can’t walk past a monument without feeling oppressed……REALLY?  Maybe they should see a therapist.  Triggering is the new hobby for Americans.  They are triggered by something that hasn’t been relevant for years and years……Guess what?  It is now.  Had they ignored the monuments, like they ignore history in general, most people wouldn’t even realize they were there.  They walk right past them without reading the inscriptions or anything.  The way to kill the Confederacy is to let it die by indifference.  But congrats triggered snowflakes, you have given it special status now.  Like Japan with Pearl Harbor.  A famous quote about that was ‘you have awoken a sleeping giant.’  For 8 long years, white people or should I say sane people(because they are many, many black, hispanic and Asian, etc people who feel the same way), have chuckled at the nonsense of the fringe left.  Poo pooed it as crazies who, crazy though they are, wouldn’t directly affect them or their lives.  Then, around 2013 or 2014, it became increasingly apparent that these nut jobs had the President’s ear and many in Congress and local government as well.  And the idiocy became law in many cases and sane people said…………

The sane people said, enough is enough and elected Trump.  Flawed though he is, he rings true.  The more the media and Democrats try to paint him as a demon, the more he looks like the man for the job.  A man who doesn’t back down when ridiculous nonsense is said about him.  He just goes forward with his agenda as a single minded machine.  Because he is not a politician.  Maybe, just maybe, other politicians will realize that we are tired of being patronized and lied to and having our pockets picked.  That we are a generous and loving nation, but not a naive or stupid one.  The more they try to make Trump look bad, when he has done nothing wrong, the stronger his support will get.  The media and all the haters have made him the most powerful underdog in history.  People love an underdog.