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treadmilltreats · 3 years

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Racism, why does it still exist?

So recently during the Capitol take over, as I watched so many white people climbing walls, knocking down fences and destroying our Capitol, I spoke on it and all of the Trump supporters kept bringing it back to the BLM. The situation with BLM was about basic human rights and not about being a sore loser and following the Hitler like man who is running this country.

See, I could never understand this and today with 50 years under my belt, I still can't understand it. I never knew it because I wasn't raised knowing it, my mom was born and raised in Harlem, her best friends were black, as there was no segregation in New York. When we moved upstate even though our town was small, we were diversified, we had Black families, White, Spanish, Jewish, Indian and mixed families. We even had gay families and drag queens in our small town and we were all friends.

My "Big daddy" Sam Whitfield was a family friend for as long as I could remember, at our house every week and every holiday.

My first very best friend was named "Cookie" who was also black and it was there I learned to love fried chicken, collard greens and her mom's incredible corn bread.

There was no color, there was just friendship, there was love, there were people who had your back and you had theirs, that simple. It was never us against them or that we thought we were better in any way, we all bleed red, we all have hearts, we are all human beings.

When I started to go to church I found one that touched my heart, one that spoke to me, to my soul, it just happened to be a predominantly black church, yet I never felt more than welcomed and loved from the moment I stepped foot in there. These wonderful men and women are now my friends, they have become my family, and yes, I would lay down my life for my family, there is that much love there.

So when I still hear so much about racism in this country I am blown away, Why? What makes you think you're better than another human being? Who said you were the chosen one? And why? Because someone else doesn't look like you? I would have hoped that by 2021, with so many strides we have made, so many ways we have come forward, even with having a black president, that this would have changed. When I was growing up, who would have thought that was even possible? Yet, it happened and I hoped that change would have come with it, but there are so many people still stuck in a time warp about racism.

Especially in the last 5 years when Trump started to run, he made it okay for the racist and the closet KKK to bring out their robes out of hiding. Even as we watched them destroying our Capitol, they were there with rebel flags and shirts that said “Camp Auschwitz” emblazoned with a skull and crossbones, and under it the phrase “work brings freedom” – an English translation of the Auschwitz concentration camp motto: “Arbeit macht frei.”

On the back it said Staff.

Another image, more subtle but no less incendiary, is of a different man whose T-shirt was emblazoned with the inscription “6MWE” above yellow symbols of Italian Fascism. “6MWE” is an acronym common among the far right standing for “6 Million Wasn’t Enough.” It refers to the Jews exterminated during the Nazi Holocaust and hints at the desire of the wearer to increase that number still further.

Their hatred is just like Hitler's was against anyone who didn't look like them, this time it looks like a bunch of uneducated rednecks with no teeth. No offense to anyone who is not a racist without teeth.

(See what it has come down to, to make sure you don't offend anyone, anymore)

QAnon followers, the Proud Boys and the other far-right and alt-right groups that converged on Washington imagined that they were living out the great fantasy that underlies what many consider to be the bible of the white nationalism movement, a 1978 dystopian novel, “The Turner Diaries,” by William Luther Pierce. That theirs, somehow stupid, is a superior race.

There is no racism, there is just stupidism, stupid, small minded people who for some God forsaking reason think they are better then someone else, than everyone else and as if it was their jobs to rid the world of everyone who doesn't believe, and who doesn't look like them.

So today my friends, let's stamp out stupidism, let others know it's not okay to say racial slurs of any kind, to not judge a person on skin color. Let's put our foot down and say that it's not okay to shoot at, pepper spray and kill Black protesters but take selfies with white protesters that stormed the Capitol.

We need change in our police system where on their day off they are allowed to put on their white sheets to help these nut jobs and yet we don't think it is possible for it to overflow into their judgments while they are on the job. Give me a frigging break! This is white privilege at it's finest and this must change.

So many are now crying that they are "targeted'' that they cannot fly because they are now labeled terrorists, that they lost their jobs and now ha, ha, ha their right to bear arms. Too fucking bad, you are terrorists, you are a group of small minded, low educated, toothless people who think the country should be run by a man, who let me tell you doesn't give two shits about you. He is only out for himself, his power and his money but you all are too stupid to see that.

So today my friends, I apologize for ranting but I can't understand how so many people think this is alright? How hating another person based on their skin color, their religion or their sexual preference is okay. We need to judge people on their hearts, who they are inside, how they give back as a society and to be more open minded about another's culture and race because we all bleed the same color and at the end we all will turn into dust, no matter what color you are.

Again I will leave you with this…

It is so important to realize we must speak out against injustice even if it is not pointed at us.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

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treadmilltreats · 4 years

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Opportunities in the impossibilities

We are all looking for opportunities even if they seem impossible, our faith teaches us that nothing is impossible for God. We just need to follow the scriptures in order to be blessed. We've all been there, in a really great season of our life or when the storms are coming at us and we feel like it will never end, but we need to remember what God told us;

"To everything there is a season"

We will always go through all kinds of seasons, but we cannot be so stuck that we miss our blessings because we are so caught up in the struggle.

I know there are times that you don't think you will ever get blessed. When you are crying out "When will I ever see the light? When will I see the blessings of God?

I know I've had plenty of times, when it feels like the enemy has come to attack you and your thinking does God even hear me? Where is he? When you cry out when God when? The times when I cried myself to sleep, when the struggle is too real and you don't have the energy to go on one more day.

But faith and obedience will get you there and because we know that faith without works is dead, so we know that we must work at it.

We are taught that we must live life in a way that the un church will be able to see God in us, because we are supposed to become imitators of Christ, we are supposed to be the light. So even in hard times, we need to hold on to that tiny mustard seed of hope and faith.

We also cannot have foolish conversations, we must be careful of how you speak and how you think because how you think is how you will become.I remember when the book The Secret came out and some people went crazy over the book, but it all came from the bible. The bible tells us that what you put out there, comes back. God speaks of this all through the bible.You speak it into existence and it will happen.

Look, I get it, I know you are asking yourself how are you going to thrive in a culture that is horrible, how can you possibly speak it into existence? When there is so much sin and is evil out there, when the storms are coming at you strong and hard but as a Christian you must be the light, you must hold on to God's word.

I remember when I started my faith walk, I had hit rock bottom and was in the middle of a horrible divorce but I spoke it into existence, this life I now have. Every night I pictured the life I wanted, I made a vision board, I would meditate and act as if I was already there. If I could do it, so can you!

Even when you feel like you are all by yourself, when you are not in the group, when people you thought were your friends leave you, you need to believe what you are saying.

When I was getting divorced all of "our" friends turned their backs on me, they dropped me after 24 years like I never existed, without even asking my side of what happened. But I couldn't worry about it, I held on to my faith, my belief of what was going to come. I'm here to tell you, don't worry about that you look different, about the people who walked away, about your situation now, you just need to keep moving forward, keep believing in God's word.

I love this saying, "The only way you see the light is because it is separated from the darkness"

Sometimes you need to be separated to see the light, to see who is truly there for you and that's okay. Make no mistake about it, it is possible to be blessed but you must be consider these two things:

1. Time:

Some of you are running out of time, you are too old to be messing up. There are certain seasons and you don't want to miss the moment, so you need to seize the moment now.

2. Ungodly influences:

You have to respond in the right way. God never lies and his word will always come to pass. Don't worry about other people. Don't listen, not even to the tiny voice inside saying you can't do it. Trust God.

"Remember no weapon formed against you will prosper"

You just need to reposition yourself to be able to be blessed, so how do you take advantage of this? Read his word, it says:

"Look carefully of how you walk, how you live your life, making the best use of the time because the days are evil. Don't be foolish, understand what the Lord's will is"

Different will always attract criticism, success will always attract criticism, change will always attract criticism, embrace the criticism and embrace the attacks, it will make you stronger and more determined.

Don't let the evil overtake you,

This season requires all of us to make the most of our time.

There is a shift in the atmosphere, because there is a covenant that God has over us. Remember that he will always hide you, he will always cover you. In the test he's got a breakthrough for you, but you just have to hold on, you just have to pass the test.

You need to check your circle, check who's got your ears,because there are some things God wants to release in your life and they are already on their way but you must hold on, you must believe.

If you make use of your time, if you speak it into existence, if you listen to him and him alone, the 7 blessings God has for you, will shine down to you. Don't miss the opportunities in the impossible.

"Be the change you want to see"