THOUGHTS ABOUT SELF AWARENESS

THOUGHTS ABOUT SELF AWARENESS – protection and defense Readers who would rather paint tomorrow’s world with pretty pleasing colors should pass this little essay of my thoughts without reading further. However, if you occasionally dig into the gore of our reality, stay with me. Presently groups are pushing to make room for them self. Other groups are irritated by their insistence to share the available, and often limited, space and resources. That irritation has been in the public arena for some time. The most recent public display of it still resonates in our recent elections. The media has made millions by bringing these irritations to the public stage. The thing that concerns me is the increase in violent rhetoric and physical actions; we seem more prone to react to violence than we are to prevent it. I’m about to reference a recent event to make a point - I mean no disrespect to those intimately involved. The indignant cries of pain following the slaughter at the South Carolina church was reactionary; appropriate, but still after the fact. I simply do not believe everyone in that Bible study group was so enthralled in what they were doing that they failed to discern the deceit in that young man – especially him being an armed young man. Someone or ones in that group ignored their intuition believing that nothing as monstrous could happen: that was a miscalculation with fatal consequence. There are white people in our country that would, if the opportunity presented itself, destroy black people: all of us. So, just as black men and women have fought and died on foreign soil to protect the freedoms all Americans share, black men and women must fight to defend our own and have ourselves seen as a formidable foe, rather than a people willing to prayerfully accept anything being done to them. One question white men and others in media often throw at black people is, ‘Do you believe in violence?’ My answer to that question is unequivocally YES: when and where ever it is necessary to protect the life and wellbeing of ourselves and others. MILK THE IRON COW - trailer https://youtu.be/Gh5Ybzl7E5c