Sunday, July 12, 2015

America has an African VooDoo Witchdoctor

Obama's government has opened the Borders for Illegals to pour in, unopposed.
Somali Muslims are coming in through visas like a stream of ants....
But Obama is blocking Visas for Middle East Christians who are being slaughtered by ISIS and Muslim Jihadists.
Obama is evil.
He has passed the Spiritual Rubicon of no return.
He is the most Demonic Politician in America's history.
He makes Wilson look like Tinker Bell.
America has an African VooDoo Witchdoctor as it's leader..... same spirit.
Get rid of him, God.
Although, more than 100,000 visas have already been granted to Muslims this year by, Carrie Dedrick | Christian Headlines The U.S. State Department...
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Top Ten Reasons Everyone Needs to Vote Democrat

    10. I’ll vote Democrat because I can’t wait for college football season to be delayed or cancelled because the student athletes are union employees.

    9. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe oil company’s profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

    8. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

    7. I’ll vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

    6. I’ll vote Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that get police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.

    5. I’ll vote Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

    4. I’ll vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the Social Security from those who paid into it.

    3. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should NOT be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.

    2. I’ll vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

    And the Number One reason I’ll vote Democrat is:

    1. I’ll vote Democrat because I think that it’s better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, fish or frog.

http://www.youngcons.com/allen-wests-top-10-reasons/

Saturday, July 11, 2015

True dat


You are the sum total of every book you have read, every movie you have seen, every play, every experience. You can be better

A friend of mine asked the question, What books, not spiritual have you read that you would recoomend.  I did a little library look and review and came up with several I offered him to read.  IF you were to be a well rounded person, these are the books I would read... 

Collapse by Jared Diamond, 
Atlas Shrugged. Rand
Road To Serfdom, Hyack
How to win friends and influence people, How to stop worrying and start living, Carnegie
I'm OK you're OK, 
Games People Play, 
Why Nations Fail,
Men in Black, Mark Levin
The Creature from Jekyll Island, 
Freakonomics, 
Think and Grow Rick
Thriving in Chaos, Peters
Tom Sowell's Basic Economics, 
Gladwell's Blink and Tipping Point, 
The Sun Also Rises (Hemmingway), 
Extraordinary Popular Delusions by McKay, 
Hawking's Brief History of Time, 
Catch 22, 
Fahrenheit 451, 
1984, 
All of Edgar Alan Poe, 
All of Conan Doyle, 
12 Angry Men, 
Animal Farm, 
Brave New World, 
The Great Gatsby, 
Dickens Full Catalog.. in particular Tale of Two Cities, 
Lord of Flies, 
Heart of Darkness. 
Call of the wild, 
Slaughterhouse 5, 

There are more, but if you would be well rounded... these are things you need to read. I would recommend Shakespeare (Of which I have read or heard all) but it's hard to read such.

Thursday, July 09, 2015

How to understand the Phony Unemployment Numbers

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A Post on Cosby I agree with

I Told You Why the Blood Thirsty Sharks Did This in the First Place!
Sometime ago, I stated that the only reason he is being targeted for this matter is because he is outspoken about a lot of "truths" that we see in the black community. People like Nikki Giovonni, Jesse Jackson, etc. have publicly attacked Cosby because he didn't toe the line of victim mentality
SO HERE WE ARE......
The 2005 deposition was released by Judge Eduardo Rubeno, based on the fact Cosby took a "moral high ground," as the reason for releasing the deposition.......what the hell?
So forget the fact that over a dozen women are accusing this man, as enough reason to release the deposition, it was his moral high ground on speaking the truth that led to this whole thing to transpire.....isn't this moral blackmail?
There is a very "politically motivated" reason the Cosby Show is no longer in publication based on allegations; however, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski films still grace our television sets despite facts of child molestation
This is a dangerous place to be......your dirty laundry being aired because you have and offer an opinion
"Pull your pants up....oh well you are a rapist"-This judge sounds like the no name comedian who made this joke
Bill Cosby has admitted to getting prescription Quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with, newly released documents show.

Monday, July 06, 2015

I saw this, don't know who wrote it, probably from a blog somewhere, but the logic is interesting

The second largest stock market in the entire world is collapsing right in front of our eyes. Since hitting a peak in June, the most important Chinese stock market index has plummeted by well over 20 percent, and more than 3 trillion dollars of “paper wealth” has been wiped out. Of course the Shanghai Composite Index is still way above the level it was sitting at exactly one year ago, but what is so disturbing about this current crash is that it is so similar to what we witnessed just prior to the great financial crisis of 2008 in the United States.

From October 2006 to October 2007, the Shanghai Composite Index more than tripled in value. It was the greatest stock market surge in Chinese history. But after hitting a peak, it began to fall dramatically. From October 2007 to October 2008, the Shanghai Composite Index absolutely crashed. In the end, more than two-thirds of all wealth in the market was completely wiped out. You can see all of this on a chart that you can find right here. What makes this so important to U.S. investors is the fact that Chinese stocks started crashing well before U.S. stocks started crashing during the last financial crisis, and now it is happening again. Is this yet another sign that a U.S. stock market crash is imminent?

Over the past several months, I have been trying to hammer home the comparisons between what we are experiencing right now and the lead up to the U.S. financial crisis in the second half of 2008. Today, I want to share with you an excerpt from a New York Times article that was published in April 2008. At that time, the Chinese stock market crash was already well underway, but U.S. stocks were still in great shape…

The Shanghai composite index has plunged 45 percent from its high, reached last October. The first quarter of this year, which ended Monday with a huge sell-off, was the worst ever for the market.

Suddenly, millions of small investors who were crowding into brokerage houses, spending the entire day there playing cards, trading stocks, eating noodles and cheering on the markets with other day traders and retirees, are feeling depressed and angry.

This sounds almost exactly like what is happening in China right now. First we witnessed a ridiculous Chinese stock market bubble form, and now we are watching a nightmarish sell off take place. This next excerpt is from a Reuters article that was just published…

Shanghai’s benchmark share index crashed below 4,000 points for the first time since April – a key support level that analysts said had been seen as a line in the sand that Beijing had to defend, below which more conservative investors would start ejecting from their leveraged positions, widening the rout.

Chinese markets, which had risen as much as 110 percent from November to a peak in June, have collapsed at an incredibly rapid pace in since June 12, losing more than 20 percent in jaw-dropping volatility as money surges in and out of the market.

That drop has wiped out nearly $3 trillion in market capitalization, more than the GDP of Brazil.

Did you catch that last part?

The amount of wealth that has been wiped out during this Chinese stock market crash is already greater than the entire yearly GDP of Brazil.

To me, that is absolutely incredible.

And now that the global financial system is more interconnected than ever, what goes on over in China has a greater impact on the rest of the globe than ever before. Today, China has the largest economy on the planet on a purchasing power basis, and the Chinese stock market “is the second largest in the world in terms of market capitalization”…

Just as in 1929, flighty retail investors make up the bulk of China’s stock market and, just as in 1929 in the U.S., they have heavily margined their accounts. The Financial Times puts the number of retail investors in the Chinese stock market at 80 to 90 percent of the total market. Retail investors, unlike sophisticated institutional investors, are prone to panic selling, which explains the wild intraday swings in the Shanghai Composite over the past week.

Last night, the Shanghai Composite broke a key technical support level, closing below 4,000 at 3,912.77. The index is now down 24 percent since it peaked earlier this month and has wiped out more than $2.4 trillion in value. China’s stock market is the second largest in the world in terms of market capitalization, with the U.S. ranking number one.

Making world markets even more worried about the situation in China, its regulators are showing a similar brand of leadership as Mario Draghi. After previously pledging to trim back risky margin lending, they have now done a complete flip flop and are permitting individual brokerage firms to avoid selling out accounts that miss margin calls by setting their own guidelines on the amount of collateral needed.

I know that a lot of Americans don’t really care about what happens over in Asia, but when the second largest stock market in the entire world crashes, it is a very big deal.

The great financial crisis of 2015 has now begun, and it is just going to get much, much worse. On Thursday, Ron Paul declared that “the day of reckoning is at hand“, and I agree with him.

So what comes next?

The following is what Phoenix Capital Research is anticipating…

By the time it’s all over, I expect:

1) Numerous emerging market countries to default and most emerging market stocks to lose 50% of their value.

2) The Euro to break below parity before the Eurozone is broken up (eventually some new version of the Euro to be introduced and remain below parity with the US Dollar).

3) Japan to have defaulted and very likely enter hyperinflation.

4) US stocks to lose at least 50% of their value and possibly fall as far as 400 on the S&P 500.

5) Numerous “bail-ins” in which deposits are frozen and used to prop up insolvent banks.

I tend to agree with most of that. I don’t agree that the euro is going to go away, but I do agree that the eurozone is going to break up and be reconstituted in a new form eventually. And yes, we are going to see tremendous inflation all over the world down the road, but I wouldn’t say that it is imminent in Japan or anywhere else. But overall, I think that is a pretty good list

Saturday, July 04, 2015

The manipulation and winning of young minds.

With all the babble and verbal barrages back and forth on the homosexual 'marriage' situaton, I totally lost sight of what has to be one of the most significant features of the LGBT movement and it's supporters:

The manipulation and winning of young minds.

We would not have arrived at this point if successive graduating classes of public school and college youth (And youth in many 'churches), had not been indoctrinated to be 'tolerant' and 'inclusive,' accepting and affirming regarding homosexual behavior.

I was well aware of this, but I did not really put it into context with a very stark warning from Jesus Christ Himself:

Hell, eternal torment, is waiting for anyone who causes one of His little ones to stumble.

I see young people stumbling all over, trying to justify the misuse of God's gift of our bodies, convinced that somehow 'sexual identity' makes people who they are, and is therefore to be honored and advanced as a noble 'right.'

These young people have been purposely deceived and are stumbling badly.

The flames of Hell are waiting for the rainbow-abusing pied pipers who manipulated them.

'He said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.' -Luke 17:2

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Black leader defends Confederate Flag, responds to violent attackers

Confederate Flag defender, political activist, former President of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP and 52-year-old black man, H.K. Edgerton was recently accosted by two black men while standing by his confederate flag in front of Asheville High School. Though he was appalled by the alleged violent actions of 19-year-old high school drop-out Andre Dewayne and 32-year-old Kevin Miller, he concedes, "I know and understand their pain because they've been lied to for so long. A lot of people know nothing about that time in history."

Describing the event, Edgerton recalls, "A man approached me quickly and when he got a foot away from me, he lunged at me, tried to grab my flag, spit on me, spit on my flag, bent my flag pole. Then another man, who was older, came. I thought he was going to stop him, but he joined in, striking and spitting on me and bending my flag even more." Edgerton said the incident left lingering injuries to his shoulder.

Though Edgerton empathizes with the anguish of the two men he asserts, "You have to know how to conduct yourselves. And give a man a chance to speak. Many people have heckled me and cursed at me. When giving speeches I've had blacks heckle me and they had to be removed in Columbia and Charleston, but never has anyone accosted me or my flag. It is my 1st amendment right to take a stand, and you must not violate my right to do so."

Edgerton blames the media and the educational system for creating the perception that exists today regarding southern history. "This is a continuation about the lies of the Christian southern white folks during the Civil War. African Americans in this country don't know a thing about that war and that time. They see that flag and someone says slavery and it all falls apart and they think of Southern Christian white folks as being evil."

"We can't let the stars and stripes get away that easy. Never were the stars and bars flag flown over a slave ship. And you want to know why? Because it's a Christian Battle Flag that was emulated after St. Andrew, Jesus Christ's first disciple. In 69 A.D. in Petro, Greece -- now a part of Russia -- St. Andrew was jailed because of his teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ, his Lord and Master, and he was told he was going to be crucified on the cross. He begged that persecutor not to nail him to that Latin cross in the shape of "T" because he was not worthy of being punished the way Jesus Christ had been nailed. So he begged to be tied in an X-shape to the cross and the persecutor did what he asked him to. That X is a Greek symbol to CH, the first two letters in Christ's name. When St. Andrew was on the cross he continued his teaching of Christ and all the folks started believing him and for three days he remained on that cross teaching and after three days they begged the persecutor to take him down and when he did, St. Andrew came down off that cross and died, and he became a martyr and a saint.

"When (Civil War Confederate ) General Beaureguard decided they needed another flag, he chose the cross of St. Andrew for these reasons. Most Southerners, in fact, did not want to do away with the stars and stripes because they didn't feel they had done anything wrong. They thought it was the north who was eradicating the Constitution.

"And as for President Lincoln, our American hero, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation. In march of 1861 Abraham Lincoln called all those black leaders in his office and he told them -- Even if I set you free you'll be inferior. You need to get out of the country because I will colonize you. Lincoln proposed the 13th Amendment, being the only President ever to do so. That amendment said Congress would never have the power to interrupt an institution of state. He told the southerners they could keep the slaves if they paid the North a 42% tariff. The South agreed to a 10% tariff but not 42%. So, who I am supposed to blame the institution of slavery on?

"At that time, one of the richest men in the world, John D. Rothchild told his family to put all their money into the Confederacy and described Lincoln as a crook. He said the slaves in the south were better off than the slaves in the north who had to work for next to nothing in the cotton mills.

"The attack on the Confederacy doesn't get the attention it deserves. These blacks today have no idea what took place back then. (Blacks) earned a place of dignity in that war. If it wasn't for Africans that war would have lasted four days, not four years. We made all of the implements of war, we fought, we participated -- not one slave insurrection happened during that period of time. They did not have whips and guns forcing them to be there. God and his infinite wisdom brought these people here. He brought about a love between master and slave that has never happened before. If you search this empirically then you will know the only one who cared about the African was the man in the south. But we don't want to face that.

"Bill Clinton's apology to (the black race) doesn't mean a thing to me. If Bill Clinton was any kind of a man he would march right down to the Education Secretary and demand that we start telling the truth to all about our history. If there are any apologies to be given, it is me. I need to apologize for walking away from the Christians in the South because I was lied to. Even the NAACP is not a black run operation. The national board is run by white liberals and Jews and I question their motives.

"Those who know their history know that we walked away from the war with dignity. But we took the loyalty we gave to the white man and started believing the lies of the North and now people are believing this madness. But even if you pull this flag from every flag pole and stand in the south you can't pull it from the hearts of the Christians in the south. If you speak to any blacks in the south my age or older you will find out that most of them had kinship to Confederate Veterans. The more who search their backbone will find out they were a part of this. They want to think they were beaten into this. Wrong. That's not how it happened.

"Times have changed. In the old south a young man would have never approached an old gray-haired man like myself. We've gotten away from that. Had we been left alone by the northern carpet-baggers, we would be better off.

"Now I have to watch the Cuban flag flying in land we used to have and know that they can live in Florida without ever speaking English. And I have to hear John Rocker get off the subway in New York and not even know where he is. Well, come get me John Rocker because I don't know where we are either and I want to know.

"My fight for my people continues. In all my speeches, I say -- Don't hurt my people, forgive them. We just don't know. -- I grew up with the same lies, claiming that Lincoln liberated and saved me. What a crock. All we have to do is think about this thing and search out the truth. I would encourage all my African-American friends to go to Southern Confederate Veterans' meetings and they will be greeted open-armed. The only day we will truly be free is when H.K. Edgerton walks out his door and every African-American is holding a Confederate Flag and I will say one thing - Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Praise God, Hallelujah.

"Not one time did Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. put down the Confederate Flag. He wanted blacks and whites to sit and eat together. I asked Dr. Young, one of King's closest friends, what his feelings were about that flag. He said, Leave it alone. Let's do something about the things we can do something about, like our children selling drugs on the street. King could never have brought us all together the way he did if he had put down the (Confederate) Flag.

"At first, I was confused by the NAACP putting down the flag, but they just don't know. I just don't want my people lied to. I hate to see them led down the path of hate. They're in the wrong ball game. There was a Machiavellian view in the North - they are different from the south. The bottom line is, if I would have had a choice back then I would have stayed in the South. If the Southern man set a man free he gave them land and a home. The North did not give them anything. You don't set a man free in the woods without anything.

"But people don't realize this. One time when I was holding the stars and bars on the street, a black man with dreadlocks told me what I was doing was wrong, and then he called to his white girlfriend and their child across the street. Now, tell me that man is not confused.

"It was the wealthy African leaders who sold the poorer Africans to the slave traders. Blacks want to speak of their African heritage, when it was their heritage who sold them out to slavery. Furthermore, it is not uncommon for blacks today to follow the Muslim religion, and Muslims practice slavery today. But no one wants to talk about that."

Thursday, July 02, 2015

When Movies Come True

By now, most of us have seen or at least heard of the movie "Idiocracy," which centers around two ordinary people being frozen and waking up 500 years in the future, only to realize that instead of evolving as a society, maidiocracy, luke wilson, idiocracy movie posternkind has become substantially dumber as a whole. Of course, we'd like to think that would never happen in a million years, let alone 500. By and large, it does seem extremely unlikely, yet some of the film's notions of where we're to end up are already on the fast track to becoming reality. What follows are ten shining examples of human devolution.  http://www.mandatory.com/2013/08/09/10-things-idiocracy-predicted-would-happen-and-sadly-already/

I believe Barack Obama is doing a wise thing

It kills me to say I agree with him, but I do.

I have been somewhat critical of his open southern borders policy. Somewhat critical of his allowing all sorts of folks of all ilk in.  I haven't understood it.

Then it hit me.. like a ton of bricks.  He's on the money on his policy.  Here's why:

  • Mexico is a tottering corrupt near failed state.
  • Mexico cannot and will not take care of its citizenry.
  • Mexico is a place to get out of, not go to.  Other countries MORE poverty stricken than Mexico like central America come to Mexico.
  • Mexico is in large part run by gangsters, drug lords, cartels and worse.
  • Mexico is a source of cheap produce, cheap manufacturing et al
  • Mexico is a pretty place but it has no ability to sustain itself even with the oil it can mine.

IF tomorrow the Donald Trump Iron Curtain were erected across our Mexican border the result would be catastrophic
  • Mexico would collapse completely and be run by gangsters
  • Discontent would allow Islamic radicals to recruit there for worse
  • Russia and other communist nations would take up a foothold
  • Missiles would be set in Mexico, not aimed at Columbia, but at the USA
  • People would starve.  Open warfare would commence
  • We would have a hostile neighbor to our south and would have to invade to save it, and it would be bloody.
  • It would be like Iran and Iraq were.  Like Israel and Palestine.  Neighbors at war.
  • There would be 15 million people who are here legally and otherwise who would consider themselves part of the other side's belligerence.  Interment camps would be part of the consideration.

All in all a horrible situation.

So what is Obama doing that is right?

He is allowing pretty much as many people to come as we can absorb.  They are poor but the money they earn goes back to Mexico and central America.  It's a way to support those states indirectly without direct government money.

He is allowing commerce to come and go without much control.

He is treating all of Mexico as a slowly assimilating 51st state with a timetable of perhaps a half century until it stabilizes.   It's a long game. We will all speak each others languages pretty well.  Think of Canada and French division.  We will be civil.  Mexico will become a defacto territory of the USA.  Mexico cannot make it without this. It will in the end ensure civil tranquility and is the safest thing we can do to keep this weak neighbor to the south from becoming overrun.  The gang element, the cartels, the drug dealers will have to be dealt with.. as we do those from Chicago, Detroit and New York. Catch them when we can, but don't ever believe a closed border will save us.

I am sure many of my very conservative friends heads are exploding as I say this.. but when I think of the alternative, that Mexico can't make it otherwise, that they are 2000 miles of our southern border.. this is the only way.. unless you can come up with another.

By the way, I don't think I'm the first to recognize this.. I'm guessing this is well recognized, but not said.





Sunday, June 28, 2015

This is more disturbing than you can imagine

Prior to his election in 2008 President Obama told everyone his intent was to “fundamentally change” the United States of America.  Not enough people were paying attention to what that actually meant, because everyone was filled with their own self-interpretation of “Hope and Change”, or “Change They Can Believe In”.
However, recent events have brought a few more people to seek a greater understanding of what’s going on in 2015.  This outline is simply going to point out a couple of visible footprints, amid the dozens possible, and show how all the modern activism stems from, and traces back to, the Obama White House.

You have to read this whole article.. and be outraged.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

In Explaining Dylann Roof's Inspiration, the Media Ignore Ties to Evolutionary Racism - Evolution News & Views

In Explaining Dylann Roof's Inspiration, the Media Ignore Ties to Evolutionary Racism - Evolution News & Views

5 ways adult children hurt their parents without realizing it What are you doing to brighten the lives of your aging parents? Bringing a little light and happiness into their lives will leave a legacy of love your own children will emulate.

Most people love and appreciate their parents. We don't doubt that. The problem is, parents can't tell this unless you show it by the way you treat them. Sometimes adult children can bring heartache to their parents without realizing what they're doing. We've boiled it down to five main ways this happens. If you are a parent of adult children, you may recognize some of these. If you're the adult child, you may be in for an awakening. As parents age, their physical needs may change but their need for your love never does.

Read this, it's really good


Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Some are just plain LOSERS

I was in Tennessee for a few days last week.  Went to see some suppliers and customers.  In the process I ran across a fellow who in any one's vernacular would be described as a loser.  In our half hour conversation (one I had to walk away from) I got this tirade from him:

Everybody in the county has done him wrong.  He felt abused.  He was convinced he would never get a break.

He told me things I know full well were lies... absolute fiction.  I know better.  I knew the people he was talking about.  When I tried to help him understand that the lies he bought into were just that, he became indignant.

He let me know in no uncertain terms that he knows better than anyone, but won't read a paper or watch or listen to news because it's all lies and conspiracy.  He is intentionally ignorant and he chose that path willingly.

He carries deeps seated resentment against those around him who have done well.  They didn't deserve it.  They cheated somehow.  It should all be taken from them.

He mentioned names of people who had "cheated" him somehow and how he will never ever talk to or do any business with them again.

He kept telling me how everything was so unfair to guys like him who "Work Hard" and don't get a break. 

He had some trouble with the law (DUI) and had spent some time in the local jail.  He is angry because there is no justice.  They were picking on him.

I knew in talking to him that if I went certain places or questioned him, that he would go off on me.. so I kept quiet.  He was very prickly.

He had all kinds of conspiracy theories about how the world is controlled by this or that entity.  He told me that it was unconstitutional to pay taxes. How the money system was controlled by the Rothschilds (are any still alive?).

He claims to be a Christian, goes to church, but in a short time based on how he talked he is harboring sin in his life.  He has great joy when harsh misfortune happens to other people. 

He lives a meager existence created by the words of his mouth.  He is about 50 years old and looks decades older.  He is always going to be unhappy and feeling put upon by those he sees as the real power.  He is a loser and loves his role as one.  Yes, I said it, this guy relishes the pedestal on which he placed himself as the arbiter of all that is good and honorable.  Except it's not.

I don't like him much, and I doubt many people do. 

We used to say in the word of faith movement, "you have what you say".. and boy does he.

He has created his loser world and will go to his grave a loser.

There is no hope for people like this, they even think they have Jesus.

Demons at Work

Three groups of men were executed in three different ways.
The official ISIS media wing released a new video Tuesday showing three sets of executions that underscore the group’s intense and persistent brutality
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Something doesn't line up here


Nashville mayoral candidate Megan Barry has joined U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper and Tennessee State House Democratic Leader Craig Fitzhugh in calling for the bust of Ku Klux Klan founding leader Nathan Bedford Forrest to be removed from the Tennessee state Capitol.
Nashville mayoral candidate Megan Barry has joined U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper and
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In 1875, Forrest demonstrated his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan he had shunned, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial
reconciliation. He made what the New York Times described as a "friendly speech" during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans. His speech was as follows:

"Ladies and Gentlemen I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. ( Immense applause and laughter.) This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.

I will say to you and to the colored race that men who bore arms and followed the flag of the Confederacy are, with very few exceptions, your friends. I have an opportunity of saying what I have always felt - that I am your friend, for my interests are your interests, and your interests are my interests. We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, and live in the same land. Why, then, can we not live as brothers? I will say that when the war broke out I felt it my duty to stand by my people. When the time came I did the best I could, and I don't believe I flickered. I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe that I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to bring about peace. It has always been my motto to elevate every man- to depress none. (Applause.) I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going.

I have not said anything about politics today. I don't propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is done, that you and I are freemen. Do as you consider right and honest in electing men for office. I did not come here to make you a long speech, although invited to do so by you. I am not much of a speaker, and my business prevented me from preparing myself. I came to meet you as friends, and welcome you to the white people. I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Use your best judgement in selecting men for office and vote as you think right.

Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. I have been in the heat of battle when colored men, asked me to protect them. I have placed myself between them and the bullets of my men, and told them they should be kept unharmed. Go to work, be industrious, live honestly and act truly, and when you are oppressed I'll come to your relief. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for this opportunity you have afforded me to be with you, and to assure you that I am with you in heart and in hand.

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Monday, June 22, 2015

12 things I can do to deal with racism in America

Clearly there are a number of things I cannot do.  I won't even try.  I don't have the authority or power to deal with other people's attitudes and racism.  The idea that I can affect change on a racist nation is without merit.  I can only change me and those with whom I come in contact.

There are thing however I can do.. and will:

1. I will not be in the presence of out and out racists.  Won't give quarter even in private to those who express such things.  I will walk away from such conversation.  I won't sanction racist attitudes when I see or hear them.

2. I will not be guilted into any action or endorsement that requires me to feel guilty about being me.  I will grace the same offer to anyone and everyone.  I will not allow a demon of guilt to possess me.

3. I will point out obvious forms of racial abuse, racial prejudice, racial misuse when I see it. Shaming is a clear way to kill racist action.

4. I will not leap on to every bandwagon that goes by disguising itself as racism or anti racism.  Most of those are smoke and mirrors.  Not everything that is called racism is.  Some is just foolishness.  Any effort to use money to try to level the inequity will be resisted. It's a band aid to impoverish more and helps no one.

5. I will be intentional in developing deeper genuine relationships with men and women with skin color different from mine.  People who I love and who can love me.  I have a start here, but love conquers sin and racism.  That will be real when I can be real.  Laugh, poke fun, cry with, tease, love, argue, forgive and treat them as I would my flesh and blood brother... and that can be brutal without the fear that it might be taken wrong.

6. I will not allow anger and disgust to put me off.  I will hear, not agree, and try to help find real truth.  Truth always lines up with reality.  Facts are subjective and may not. Truth will be my focus.  Truth sets people free.. and that's the goal.

7. I will face down blatant lies whenever I see them, those from the racists and those from those who are driven by trying to use racism as a reason for despair.   The best thing I can do is to break the chains of lies that keep people in bondage.

8. I will expose the role indignation has in revealing guilt.  Guilty people are always at first indignant. Racists and race hustler use indignation to try to keep people in bondage.  I will be one who sets people free.  Indignation will not be honored. 

9. I will rebuke militant racists of all stripes.  The first step to reality is to recognize that militant racists are there.. black militant racists and white militant racists.  They are not interested in dialogue and won't respond to love.. so I will rebuke them and keep my distance.

10. I will keep asking "So What" to the surface efforts that many make in "Combating" racism.  The flag in South Carolina no longer flies above the capital.. The question is SO WHAT?  It's symbolism.  I will no longer buy into anything that is meaningless and pure symbolism.  We have too much of that already.  The lack of net effect only frustrates people.

11. I will resist efforts to apply leaky band aids to a festering scab picked by those who profit from keeping  the open sore of racism from healing.  We were better ten years ago. There are answers but they aren't easy or quick.  The whole economy of creating an equal and open society means all people have to adjust.  It must not be a one way street.  It won't be instant. 

12. I will not allow the fact that I am who I am cause me pain and guilt.  I understand there are inequities.  I can't do much about that.  I can't make excuses.  I won't make excuses.  I will only provide the reality that people oppressed by the devil do dumb things.  I can't repent of the DNA that made me white, and when that translates into white privilege my acknowledging that fact does nothing to further the argument.

In the end, I can only be me.  I can't allow those who would make me inert out of being white to disallow any effort I might make in combating racism.  I think we could all benefit by doing these things.  As a white man who lives in these situations, I can think of no fruitful way I can combat the depth of racism in America other than by these 12 principles.  If you have suggestions.. I'll listen.. But it must line up with the ones already expressed.








This is most certainly true



Hey Ferguson. Hey Baltimore. This is South Carolina. This is how we do it. We are family. No riots. No looting. Nobody acting like animals.



What do you see here? Multi-racial. Multi-ethnic. All colors. All races. Banding together to defeat evil.
No Obama. No Sharpton. We don't need Obama's politicizing attitude. We don't need Sharpton's divisive presence. Both of you, STAY AWAY!