I was reading the article by Tim Wise, http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html, an eloquent white man that "gets it" and the comments were almost as good as the article. It seems when whites try to defend themselves and their country against anyone that would criticize their patriotic fervor and disguised history, all the rest of us get blamed for playing the race card if we dont agree with them. I certainly don't agree with their stupid tea party because as I remember it, didn't the first ones disguise themselves as Indians? Seems like cowardice played a big roll in that patriotic theme and a way to blame the Indians for one more thing.
Bush let us know if you don't agree with the war in Iraq, you were unpatriotic. I didn't agree with being a bully, which was what I saw the taking over of a country that hadn't spit on our soil to be, but upheld the soldiers that had to fight the stupid thing through no fault of theirs.
I was against Bush as President, not because he was an American President, I was against Bush for the same reason Ron White, the comedian was against it. You can't fix stupid. I'm not for this President because he's Black, I'm for intelligence and we haven't had any of that for years. We had Tricky Dick and Slick Willy, which for all the stuff they did, we are still paying for but that's OK, they are White Americans. Yet the conservatives get all bent out of shape because Obama bowed with an Asian Head of State out of respect?
When they start hollering about what it took to build this country, please try and throw in how the Chinese built railroads, how Indians were "cleared off it" and put in places they needed to be, how Africans worked for no pay until death, and Japanese were carted off and imprisoned in camps until the war was over but no American Germans were, and please remind them again, they, didn't build it, all the rest of us did. But I'm not bitter because life has a way of evening things out, or as some would say, God has a sense of humor. Everybody gets a turn in the barrel and the Mexicans are coming.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
FRIENDS ARE THE FAMILY WE GIVE OURSELVES
Everyday should be special in your life even if you're miserable, because someone else in this same city is doing a lot worse than you. So smile and shut the f--- up. You are incharge of your own happYness, and if you arent happy maybe you havent learned what you are supposed to be happy about, or with whom. Let me tell you what makes me happy and it may give you an idea of what you are lacking or better yet, have an abundance of.
Friends. Sure we have relatives, siblings, parents but hey, your choice of friends form the family you know will stick by you. We usually have a Mother friend that will listen to us sympathetically, give us a hug and tell us all will be alright, 'Let me make you a cup of tea." There's the group friends who will kick you to the curb when you have gotten out of line yet help you even when they don't agree with you. Then we have that best friend one that will listen to us moan and groan then laugh and remind us of the fact, they told us not to do that when they saw crazy coming through the club and us looking at him like he was gold. That's the "I told you" side of the family.
We should have a cultured friend that knows which fork to use, and a halleluja friend that wears socks with flipflops. One we admire and strive to be like and one we try to help rise above their lot in life, and one special one you drink coffee with and while away the time. This is your sister friend, one you have genuine love for that knows who the hell you really are, but likes you anyway. This should be our family, these friends of ours right along with our real family because no matter how bad things get, one of them is there to make you happy, they are right beside you just to help you get over that hump.
I lost my sister friend and it took a while to fill up that hole left behind, but eventually I did though I still miss her. So if you need happyness in your life, maybe you should re-do your friends and up date who makes you laugh. Throw a couple guys or girls in the mix, maybe a dog or cat because sometimes they listen and they are always without judgement. I hope you find your other family, they make life soooooo wonderful.
They, are the family we give ourselves.
Friends. Sure we have relatives, siblings, parents but hey, your choice of friends form the family you know will stick by you. We usually have a Mother friend that will listen to us sympathetically, give us a hug and tell us all will be alright, 'Let me make you a cup of tea." There's the group friends who will kick you to the curb when you have gotten out of line yet help you even when they don't agree with you. Then we have that best friend one that will listen to us moan and groan then laugh and remind us of the fact, they told us not to do that when they saw crazy coming through the club and us looking at him like he was gold. That's the "I told you" side of the family.
We should have a cultured friend that knows which fork to use, and a halleluja friend that wears socks with flipflops. One we admire and strive to be like and one we try to help rise above their lot in life, and one special one you drink coffee with and while away the time. This is your sister friend, one you have genuine love for that knows who the hell you really are, but likes you anyway. This should be our family, these friends of ours right along with our real family because no matter how bad things get, one of them is there to make you happy, they are right beside you just to help you get over that hump.
I lost my sister friend and it took a while to fill up that hole left behind, but eventually I did though I still miss her. So if you need happyness in your life, maybe you should re-do your friends and up date who makes you laugh. Throw a couple guys or girls in the mix, maybe a dog or cat because sometimes they listen and they are always without judgement. I hope you find your other family, they make life soooooo wonderful.
They, are the family we give ourselves.
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