I don't pray often, but in this case... I pray you're right about there being no anti-semitism! It's a wonderful thing, all you said. I pray that what you see today-- no anti-semitism-- holds over into tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow!
Thank you for the words, as well, about the Social Media. Great advice!
I don't pray often, but in this case... I pray you're right about there being no anti-semitism! It's a wonderful thing, all you said. I pray that what you see today-- no anti-semitism-- holds over into tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow!
Thank you for the words, as well, about the Social Media. Great advice!
What truly truly, truly, concerns me is how far they are pushing this envelope. It's almost as if they don't stop exploiting this you'll put the thought in people's heads.
I say this with all due respect as you cannot compare the two cultures, but they pushed the racism issue so far the black community began to exploit it and now that there is hatred that did not exist previously. I believe Obama played a huge role in stetting the Civil Rights movement back 50 years. But specifically when Michelle said I have never been more proud of my Country until now!
It happened with the gay community as well and low and behold the hate crimes erupted. In other word both groups took advantage of something that was non-existent and because of it eventually turned it into something that now is.
Picture it this way - raise your kids that everyone hates them simply because they're Jewish and tell me what will become of it? Teach your kids that everyone hates you because you're black and how will they act? Teach your kids that everyone hates gays and how will react? It's all deliberate. That's why you have to stop it.
BJтАФ hereтАЩs a quick note (no need to respond-- I just needed to say this):
тАж About Blacks, Gays, Jews and their hyper-vigilance; their unwillingness or incapacity to let down their guard and their seeing monsters everywhere, in every cornerтАФ as I doтАж Sometimes whole groups of people can be and often are like abused children; unable to let down their guard.
The trauma in families of peoples whoтАЩve been traumatized is passed down verbally, yes, but tooтАФ something like physically. One grows up with a kind of heaviness in the air. An invisible weight. It feels emotionally like swimming in paste or walking halfway through the cement.
I think we all might find value in listening to the personal stories of those whoтАЩve had histories filled with violence. We might understand better why they canтАЩt let go of the knowledge and can't trust easily.
I recall in the 1990тАЩs, I was working in a bar, singing and playing piano in a gay bar for men. It was during the time of AIDS. Many of the guys had AIDS and there was one guy, RickyтАФ around 20 years old, extremely kindтАФ a Mexican kid who got AIDS. When I went to visit him in the hospital, he told me he was HAPPY and WANTED to die because his Mexican father hated him for being gay.
We just canтАЩt know what people go through, have gone through and why they act as they do.
BJ,
I don't pray often, but in this case... I pray you're right about there being no anti-semitism! It's a wonderful thing, all you said. I pray that what you see today-- no anti-semitism-- holds over into tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow!
Thank you for the words, as well, about the Social Media. Great advice!
What truly truly, truly, concerns me is how far they are pushing this envelope. It's almost as if they don't stop exploiting this you'll put the thought in people's heads.
I say this with all due respect as you cannot compare the two cultures, but they pushed the racism issue so far the black community began to exploit it and now that there is hatred that did not exist previously. I believe Obama played a huge role in stetting the Civil Rights movement back 50 years. But specifically when Michelle said I have never been more proud of my Country until now!
It happened with the gay community as well and low and behold the hate crimes erupted. In other word both groups took advantage of something that was non-existent and because of it eventually turned it into something that now is.
Picture it this way - raise your kids that everyone hates them simply because they're Jewish and tell me what will become of it? Teach your kids that everyone hates you because you're black and how will they act? Teach your kids that everyone hates gays and how will react? It's all deliberate. That's why you have to stop it.
Be well my friend!
BJтАФ hereтАЩs a quick note (no need to respond-- I just needed to say this):
тАж About Blacks, Gays, Jews and their hyper-vigilance; their unwillingness or incapacity to let down their guard and their seeing monsters everywhere, in every cornerтАФ as I doтАж Sometimes whole groups of people can be and often are like abused children; unable to let down their guard.
The trauma in families of peoples whoтАЩve been traumatized is passed down verbally, yes, but tooтАФ something like physically. One grows up with a kind of heaviness in the air. An invisible weight. It feels emotionally like swimming in paste or walking halfway through the cement.
I think we all might find value in listening to the personal stories of those whoтАЩve had histories filled with violence. We might understand better why they canтАЩt let go of the knowledge and can't trust easily.
I recall in the 1990тАЩs, I was working in a bar, singing and playing piano in a gay bar for men. It was during the time of AIDS. Many of the guys had AIDS and there was one guy, RickyтАФ around 20 years old, extremely kindтАФ a Mexican kid who got AIDS. When I went to visit him in the hospital, he told me he was HAPPY and WANTED to die because his Mexican father hated him for being gay.
We just canтАЩt know what people go through, have gone through and why they act as they do.
Anyway, I just needed to say that.
Have a good night.