As I read the writings of our colleagues I wonder why the narrative is to condemn on first sight. To quickly find a way to crucify your fellow man for a opposing thought. I also wonder why the color of my skin makes me just as guilty as those who have done terrible things in our history. We’ve moved away from having a savior who died for our sins into getting everything we possibly can for ourselves.
I do think that Black Lives Matter as All lives matter. I’m totally against BLM Global Network and Marxism. BLM should mean Every Black Life Matters and not support the destruction of Black families businesses to promote their company. “Black Lives Matter Global Network” isn’t concerned about black lives. There seems to be no remorse over the black lives lost during the riots. There’s no concern, either, over black citizens who are killed by other black citizens. About half of the murders in America are committed by African Americans. Over 90% of their victims are black. How come those victims never get talked about?” All black lives matter
The trouble with “Centering Black” is that people in this world are so diverse that trying to group them in any way also condemns the innocent for deeds of the guilty.
How To Catch A Racist.
As I grow older, I’ve lost patience in dealing with racists — overt or covert. I’m tired of wasting time getting to know someone only to find out later on down the road that that person is racist. It’s emotionally draining. You know, it’s not always apparent that someone is racist — you sometimes only find out at a turn in a conversation, or after hearing their views in response to the Harry/Meghan interview, or their perspective on Derek Chauvin — the cop that murdered George Floyd. Sometimes it is weeks, months, or even years into a relationship before you’ll know. Some people are even married to racists and only realize years into the relationship.
I’ve devised a few effective ways in which to unmask racists within hours, days, or months of meeting them. These recommendations will help you save a lot of time and ensure you don’t invest emotionally in someone who doesn’t have your best interests at heart — someone who doesn’t truly respect and value you.
Recommendation 1: First observe how they look at you. When racists don’t think you’re looking, they’ll examine you, they’ll stare at you — a bit like they’re studying an animal at the zoo. It’s not a kind, appreciative, or admirative stare, it’s a mean and inquisitive one – sometimes filled with fear or dislike.
You’ll get that uncomfortable feeling that you are being watched — You’ll feel their eyes in your back. You might not be able to put your finger on it, but you’ll realize that you aren’t at ease around these people. Maybe it’s because your intuition senses their deep hatred for who you are.
Recommendation 2: Another way that you can find out if someone is a racist is to ask them about their perspectives on issues such as Black Lives Matter, immigration of black and brown people, and the extreme right for example. Watch to see if their first line of defense would be to make an impassioned plea for “All Lives Matter”. Listen to see if they justify and support restrictive immigration policies that prevent black and brown people from coming in. They’ll say things like,
“Those immigrants overload the health or welfare system”.
My response to that is always:
“So white immigrants don’t overload the welfare system? Only black and brown people do?”
To that, they start getting defensive and sometimes voice that by saying:
“I’m not racist”.
Is it because they sense that they are getting cornered? Ask what they think about the January 6th US Capitol Hill riots. Do they minimize it or justify the acts of the perpetrators? Observe these situations carefully and read the non-verbal well. It’ll be easy to differentiate racists from nonracists/antiracists in these types of situations.
Recommendation 3: Another way to test them is by making a racist joke about another ethnic group. See how they react to that — do they laugh unabashedly and continue to make even more jokes or do they take a stance and tell you you are wrong to make such jokes? Often I find that racists relish opportunities to be their true racist selves. When you make them think you are ok with racist jokes, they feel liberated. You’ll see the racist monster that you’ve unleashed soon enough. There’ll make one racist joke after another and expect you to laugh at those jokes too. You’ll need to end the relationship soon because it will become unbearable — trust me, I’ve been there, done that, albeit when I was much younger.
Recommendation 4: The fourth approach would be to test them on issues like white privilege and white fragility. Do they argue to the death that these realities do not exist? When you show them where their privilege or fragility lies, do they deny it and suggest that you’re the racist? Does the situation become acrimonious and tense? If yes, chances are that you’re sitting right across from a racist.
But as I have said on numerous occasions, racism is not set in stone. It is not a permanent state of being. Racists can learn, and racists can change. They can become nonracists and even better, antiracists.
If you catch a racist, one that has the mental agility and the willingness to change, you can help them in their reconversion journey — but remember, only if you want to. No black or brown person is ever obligated to teach/help anyone else to be nonracist or antiracist. We are already victims and hostages of racism, we do not need to also be placed in a Stockholm Syndrome-like situation as well.
But one thing if any to keep in mind is that racism stems from a lack of education about the other. As human beings, we all have the same needs — no one is superior to one another in any way. For long, black and brown people have been dehumanized whether it be through enslavement, colonialism, occupation, or whatever oppressive regime white supremacy threw our way. Once a racist is educated, he/she becomes woke or even better enlightened. That’s a place where all racists need to get to put us on the path to a world where everyone is finally equal.
Thanks for reading my perspective. How To Catch A Racist. You can unmask them much easier and… | by Rebecca Stevens A. | ILLUMINATION-Curated | Mar, 2021 | Medium
Carlson began the segment with a Georgia state representative and Black Lives Matter supporter named Ladawn Jones who appeared on the show in 2017. She’d made a point of calling Seuss out, saying that “you can see that there are some very stereotypical drawings of Asian-Americans” in them and “Dr. Seuss was known for some very stereotypical black face drawings prior to the books that most of us are familiar with.”
“Now at the time, what you just heard seemed incomprehensible,” Carlson said. “In fact, as we noted, kind of demented. Say what you will about Dr. Seuss, maybe you think his drawings are primitive, maybe some of his doggerel doesn’t actually rhyme, fair.
“But Dr. Seuss was not a racist. Dr. Seuss was a preachy liberal. He was an evangelist against bigotry. He wrote an entire shelf of books against racism and not in a subtle way. They were clearly explicitly against racism. That was the whole point of writing them — to teach children not to be racist.”
He also noted that “conservatives will be tempted to chalk up the attacks on Dr. Seuss to the usual cancel culture gone mad. ‘Look how hysterical and stupid the professional left is. They’re even calling Dr. Seuss racist.’ “And you’ve seen people say that on social media today,” Carson said. “But it’s totally missing the point. Canceling Dr. Seuss isn’t stupid. It’s intentional. They’re banning Dr. Seuss not because he was a racist, but precisely because he wasn’t.”
He just wasn’t the right kind of not-racist — or, as one might say, anti-racist.
Carlson pointed to Seuss’s most famous anti-racism story, “The Sneetches.” For those of you who haven’t read it — and you clearly were deprived children or never had ones of your own if that’s the case — the story revolves around mythical creatures called sneetches, some which have stars on their bellies and some that don’t.
“At various points in the story, stars in the stomach are deemed socially favorable. At others, they’re considered a mark of disgrace. And the sneetches run around frantically trying to keep up with the changing demands of star fashion, until they realize in the uplifting final pages of the story, that none of it matters,” Carlson said.
“Underneath the stars, they’re all the same. They’re all sneetches. Who cares who’s got a star? What matters isn’t the group you come from, what matters is you. Even a 5-year-old gets the point of the story,” Carlson said. “At the deepest level, it doesn’t matter what we look like because underneath it all, we’re all the same. We’re all human beings, we’re in this together.”
You may be beginning to see where this all goes.
“For 60 years, American children have read ‘The Sneetches’ and books like it, and that’s one of the reasons we have the country we have today, in which most Americans, those who don’t work at the universities or for the Joe Biden administration, accept Martin Luther King’s most famous precept, that what matters is the content of our characters, not the color of our skins.
“‘The ‘Sneetches’ affirm[s] this. The story is a plea for colorblindness, and that’s why the forces of wokeness hate it and Dr. Seuss.
“When the people in charge cancel Dr. Seuss, what they’re really trying to eliminate is a very specific kind of mid-century American culture, a culture that championed meritocracy, and colorblindness and the superiority of individual achievement over tribal identity. These were once called liberal values.”
But that’s not liberalism anymore — or, if it is, it’s sneered at by the kind of leftist who would bristle at being called a “liberal.”
“Modern liberals don’t want to be reminded that they once believed any of this. If your kids are allowed to read Dr. Seuss, they will know this was a different country not so long ago, a place where people tried hard not to hate each other,” Carlson said.
“A place where the population was encouraged, begged by its leaders to reject identity politics in favor of universal values and the things that connect us all.
“Dr. Seuss was never a major literary figure, but his memory matters more than ever it has. The battle over Dr. Seuss, what he stood for, the battle over what it means to be racist will have consequences that extend for generations. And if we lose that battle, America is lost.”
And that’s the thing: The Dr. Seusses of the world don’t mix well with the Ibram X. Kendis. “The Sneetches” can’t exist ideologically with “White Fragility.”
No, some of Dr. Seuss’s caricatures don’t fit with modern sensibilities. But, as Carlson noted, that wasn’t why this “preachy liberal” didn’t get modern self-described liberals to pull his fat out of the fire. As Left Cancels Dr. Seuss, Tucker Carlson Drops the Inconvenient Truth About the Man Behind the Books (westernjournal.com)
The COVID numbers are about as low as they’ve ever been.
Narrative: I’m skipping the time bullets today. It’s really early and i’m posting to my blog. I am sipp’n on coffee getting organized for today. It’s cool and sunny this morning, I’ve been getting ready for this Sunday’s Gig at church. We’ve not run the full band since COVID kicked us out of the school. I sorted tubs and wires that are stored in the car. We celebrated by going out to Chilis in the afternoon and watched TV until bed.
Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We were able to help a family get electricity this year! They are very grateful!
Tomorrow: Friday.
Retirement: We’ve spent 10K on an air conditioner, need to make that up.
Purchases: Conservation mode, we’re more than 3 paychecks in the hole.
Repairs:
Religion: We were called to read the book Crossing the Line, i am on chapter 5.
Family News: Going day by day.
Arts:
Travel: Florida travel looks well out of reach!
Taxes: I need to finish them.
Pi News: Love em, but no time to play with them.
Media: No Instagram posts today I’ve made a couple posts to FB EcoFlow R600 Group.
Injuries: No injuries.
Accomplishments: None.
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To