You are not wrong.
When the goverment tried to help with the great society, etc, type programs, it removed one of the basic necessities a person needs to be mentality healthy, self worth.
It is no more complicated than the little wisdom quote, "you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. You teach a man to fish, he eats for life"
I am not going to say these programs were set up for failure.
To "herd" a race into an area, keeping them segregated by dependencies, and profiting greatly, the wealthy, made money off this, and avoided scrutiny, by charging the ever popular "racist" if you dare question these programs, or oppose them....
Didn't we see the same ploy with Obamacare?
If you talk with "oreo's" they tell a different story.
But again, the spin is directed against them as a sell out.
This is not to say some were not able to utilize the programs and advance, in societal terms.
Many did, but we must also acknowledge that it created other problems that trapped many.
A 2nd or 3rd generation person had no say in being "born" into it, so to speak.
By their time to "advance" up and out of the constraints of what they had been born into, STRICTLY by race, the chances were diminishing, from both inside and OUTSIDE, forces.
I have harped on this until I am blue in the face, and only continue because I care....
I care about ALL people, and I care about my Black granddaughter.
The practice of Political Correctness, tho maybe well intention, lets ignorance live with bias, misconceptions, and prejudice, that only festers, growing bigger, encompassing, and trapping, more folks, as they grow further apart from any understanding.
It is fact we gravitate toward our own understandings and comfort level, with associations.
MY GAWD, look at this board as a example, so ripe with disdain for others of a different faith, belief, etc.....
Like Obama said, last week, that is a learned trait, mindset, I agree....
Look at Houston, folks helping others they don't even know, all the other political, racial, society dogmas not even a consideration....
That folks, is our REAL nature, not one that is learned, and then becoming a useful fool for those who have the wherewithal to enact THEIR will, and AGENDA'S, on others, through all sorts of questionable means.
Gang, please, let this thread show how wrong we are, ALL OF US, when we MUST BE RIGHT, over being our brothers, and sisters, keepers, first.
That is on each and everyone of us, its as if we hold the whip that we beat our self with, and then cry foul, over the whip maker, misplaced, and deflecting the truth, and we wonder why we are angry and lost
As a believer, I am told, secondly, right after being told to LOVE MY GOD, first and foremost, to then love my neighbor AND enemy..... ouch.
That seems so wrong, they deserve my scorn, they EARNED IT, and if I don't affirm that by pushing back, etc, then I will be a passive weakling inviting others to walk all over me and my wife will call me a puzzy (one that Trump wouldn't want to grab, either).
That is my first reaction.
But my second is, in a nut shell, as my, uh, sermon.....
Is already too long!
Is a fact, and that is REAL LOVE I will never know, or be able to give myself, IF.....
I do not give it to others, first.
I must practice this, for it is NOT my nature, in order for me to ACCEPT myself, faults and all, and to know that who, and what, I am, is NOT earned by others affirmations, NO, but given to me, by self loving, myself.
When I am healthy, my interactions will be healthy, and that my friends is a sustainable life.
Please, make no misunderstanding here, I AM NOT THERE.....
Everyday I pray for guidance and strength to overcome my self, my nature.
And honestly, I feel at times this board is a deterrent to achieving it, but I just can't seem to find it, to turn my back on you guys.
One day, I might be instructed in answer to my prayer, to shake the dust from my cloak, and move on..... I dunno.
However, I know I will never be instructed to abandon my granddaughter, never.
The love my White son, has for his Black daughter, teaches me much, even at almost 65, that I still have LOTS to learn.....
But it also gives me much joy, in being able to see pure, unadulterated, LOVE, for another, that did NOT, come naturally, if we are going to allow the stigma of our difference divide us along its ugly prejudices.
OK, time for tithing..... just send me your offerings
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