AMERICA HAD A BLACK PRESIDENT

Barack Obama, an AMERICAN BLACK,  was President of the United States of America for 8 years... and, did that STOP RACISM?       

NO...

Why not?




Because BOTH BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS were not ready to stop racism yet...  You must understand that it is not just the whites that are racist but the blacks are racist as well...  and, have no problems preaching that from the pulpits of their churches or writing about it in the lyrics of their RAP Music...

AMONG WELL-TO-DO BLACKS and those Blacks that are extremely wealthy there is minimal racism as both side have accepted the other side...  maybe not as equals yet...  but they have been accepted into the CLUBS OF WEALTHY and NOTORIETY...  especially among celebrities, and professional athletes, and professional musicians...  but, these people DO NOT represent a majority of Americans....

At best, wealthy people represent 10% of the American Population...

The other 90% are RACISTS...  to one degree or another...  otherwise, it would have literally been IMPOSSIBLE to PERPETUATE RACISM...

Think about that a little...

Other examples, if you need more proof...

1. Why have we not been able to eliminate poverty in the USA?
2. Why have we not been able to improve K-12 education in the USA?
3. Why have we not been able to stop ILLEGAL DRUGS in the USA?
4. Why have we not been able to reduce the wealth gap in the USA?
5. Why have we not been able to stop domestic violence in the USA?
6. Why have we not been able to reduce INEQUALITY in the USA?

AMERICANS STOP ONLY THAT WHICH THEY WANT TO STOP OR IMPROVE...

2020 Election Concerns

Listening to FOX NEWS this morning, there appears to be growing concern about Russia's paying bounties to the TALIBAN in 2019 to attack American soldiers AND IF President Trump knew about this and still tried to maintain a foreign policy that was favorable to Russia.  However, the data contained in the article published by The New York Times has not been VERIFIED as being TRUTH and yet all the TRUMP HATERS are saying Trump is SELLING OUT the US because of his friendship with Putin which verifies that Russia got Trump elected in 2015...

What amazes me is the ONGOING ATTACK on Trump and that this attack has been going on for 4 years because the DEMOCRATS did not expect TRUMP to win the election and they are after him one way or the other...

AND, what is the ALTERNATIVE to Trump...  JOE BIDEN...

As far as I am concerned...  I really don't give a RAT'S ASS who wins the election but what I do care about is what is best for the USA...

BIDEN wants to raise taxes and that is not good for Americans because those monies will be redistributed to those Americans who don't want to earn it themselves...

Workers with more money in their pockets DO NOT HIRE OTHER WORKERS...

When taxes are increased on corporations and the wealthy, these people and entities will LAY OFF WORKERS to compensate which is why employment has not been as high as it was under the TRUMP administration before the Pandemic...  FACT...  not fiction...

Raising Taxes will not stop RACISM in AMERICA...

RESTRUCTURING the police departments will not stop RACISM in AMERICA...

Will Biden be tough on Europe, NATO, UN, Trade Deals, Russia, China, North Korea, Terrorists or will he and the rest of the Democrats want to sit down at a table and discuss possibilities and then walk away and believe what the other side told them that they would do...  BELIEVE YOUR ENEMY...

HOW IS THIS GOOD FOR AMERICA???

Pitfalls of Going On Vacation

Unless you let someone or something else take you to your vacation destination, you will be driving a vehicle...  either your personal vehicle, your family vehicle, or a rented/borrowed vehicle...  and, unless you are the type of person who ALWAYS DRIVES THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT or lower, you run the risk of getting stopped by LAW ENFORCEMENT and given a speeding ticket which on the surface is not very much (including court costs or whatever else they add on) but there are points that are assessed against your driver's license which depending on the number of tickets you receive could cost you to lose your driving privileges.
         

However, since there are far more drivers the highway patrolmen and other law enforcement that helps out from time-to-time, the odds of you getting a ticket are actually slim and far between.  For a while there, I was getting a moving violation ticket about once every ten years which neither impacts one's bank account or insurance premiums very hard.  In fact, if you stay inside a pack of cars that are moving faster than the posted limits, the odds are that the WHOLE GROUP WILL NOT BE STOPPED and if they stop anyone, it will be the first car or the last car in the pack.

So, driving to and from has never really bothered me but this has...
in order to go on vacation, there is always a list of STUFF that must be done before you leave, like:

• mowing the lawn
• checking our the vehicle
• gathering up clothes
• gathering up food
  
• making lists of items not to forget
• making sure the pets are cared for
• putting the water tank on vacation
• unplugging numerous plugs from outlets
• leaving a light in the hallway burning
• cleaning the house - people that care for pets come inside
• packing the car
• getting to one's destination
• not liking the accommodations
• bad weather
• not planning enough or too much

and then, once you return, you must:         

• unpack the car
• wash the dirty clothes
• put away items
• wash the car
• take care of neglected pets
• mow the yard
• clean the house
• redo everything that was undone

NOW...  when I was working (retired now), right about the time our week of vacation was over, I had relaxed enough to start really enjoying our vacation...  only to find, it all had to be rewound...

BEING RETIRED...  is really the only way to go on vacation to get the absolute most out of the experience.

How Far Do We Go?

COME TO THINK OF IT...  but, if you have ever played a game of chess, then you will remember that one side is WHITE and one side is BLACK...  I wonder if that was intentional?

And, I also wonder if WHITE FOLKS will be able to get out in the sun and get a SUN TAN or for that matter go to a TANNING BED...

How does an AMERICAN WHITE order BLACK COFFEE?

AND...  will the Ace of Spades still be called the Ace of Spades or will it now need to be called the Ace of Color...  but, that might conflict with the Ace of Clubs since it too is black.

AND, will it still be PITCH BLACK on some nights?

AND, will the pot still be able to call the kettle black?

AND, what about Black Beard the Pirate?

AND, will we still be able to order Black cars or eat blackberries?

AND, will physicists have to rename BLACKHOLES and DARK MATTER and DARK ENERGY?

It's Time For A New America...

We need to replace our American Flag with a new Flag
We need to replace our US Constitution with a new US Constitution
We need to REMOVE all statues and put them in museums
We need to REMOVE law enforcement and replace it with street monitors
We need to FORCE PEOPLE not to hate
We need to give more money to American Blacks because of slavery

And, once we have accomplished those goals, we need to assess where we are and see if we need to do more...

America can no longer be WHITE AMERICA with WHITE VALUES and WHITE JOBS and WHITE WEALTH and WHITE POWER...  and, America can no longer share all of these aspects of American life with AMERICAN BLACKS...   NO...  we must make AMERICA BLACK and force AMERICAN WHITES to serve their new leaders...

No more white babies should be born
No more white ministers and pastors
No more white airline pilots
No more white college professors
No more white CEO's
No more white millionaires or billionaires

AMERICA IS NO LONGER WHITE...

IS AMERICA BAD?

YES...  some people would lead you to believe that it is...  but why?  Because of slavery that ended over 150 years ago...  which is about 10 generations ago as well...  plenty of time to remedy the ills of what the white man did to the black man...   BUT...  time has not healed these wounds...  according to American Blacks, these wounds have grown deeper...  and, they are basing this claim on a few BAD WHITE COPS who have apparently and intentionally killed American Blacks because they do not value their life as much as they value their own...  HOWEVER...  not all AMERICAN WHITES feel this way nor do they allow their behavior to convey those thoughts either.  STILL...  AMERICAN WHITES are getting angry with AMERICAN BLACKS who are pushing these feelings onto the rest of America's residents...   and we, myself included, are getting pissed off because I do't feel like these other AMERICAN WHITES nor do my actions replicate any of what these other AMERICAN WHITES are doing and yet I am blamed all the same...

IS IT TIME FOR SOME OF US AMERICAN WHITES TO FIGHT BACK???

Celebrating JULY 4

For Americans
On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence.

What does July 4th mean to/for AMERICAN BLACKS?

Well...  the best way to answer that is to take a looksee at Thomas Jefferson...

According to WIKIPEDIA:  "Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned more than 700 African-American slaves throughout his adult life. Jefferson freed two slaves while he lived, and seven more after his death. Jefferson consistently spoke out against the international slave trade, outlawed while he was President, while he advocated gradual emancipation and colonization of domestic slaves.  

Jefferson believed black people were inherently inferior to white people and thought it was best the two races remained segregated."

NOT BEING BLACK MYSELF, I cannot fully grasp nor can I fully appreciate what this means for our American Black Communities...  Our great country is BASED UPON the US CONSTITUTION and it is the same US CONSTITUTION, written by the slave owner Thomas Jefferson who believed blacks were inferior... that saw BLACKS as 2/3 of a person...

How in the hell can someone actually be TWO THIRDS OF A PERSON?

It is also INTERESTING, at least to me how AMERICAN BLACKS refer to themselves as African Americans when that is not actually ACCURATE especially since they were born in the USA...  You are AMERICAN BLACKS with African Heritage...

BUT, that is really a minor point when it comes to our 4th of JULY CELEBRATIONS and how AMERICAN BLACKS participate in those celebrations because there is really no CELEBRATION for them at all until the Emancipation Proclamation which was an Executive Order of Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1962...

This is the date that AMERICAN BLACKS should be celebrating and this date should be a NATIONAL HOLIDAY... 

But, what is even more interesting is the fact that while Abraham Lincoln did not directly own slaves, his wife owned slaves while they were married...

If I was an AMERICAN BLACK IN TODAY'S WORLD,  I would be just as pissed off at Abraham Lincoln as I am with all of the Founding Fathers that owned slaves and would want his statue removed along with all the other statues.

IN FACT, I would arrange an HUGE PROTEST MOVEMENT on the 4th of July because it is not really a Day of Independence FOR AMERICAN BLACKS...

What Happened?

A lifelong Democrat turned conservative, but not Republican is who I am today but my greater concern is what I fear for this country...  that she is changing for the worst right before my eyes...  filled with racial hatred that has divided her colors and whose anger has torn down the historical fabric of the tapestry that made her great...  her enemies watch in AWE as we do their work for them...  knowing that DIVIDED we will fall as we care more about ourselves than each other...  no longer will we stand together willingly but do so forced knowing one color hates the other...  knowing one color wishes the other color were gone forever...  knowing that one color will NEVER BE EQUAL to the other color...  as long as we see COLOR instead of seeing us all as AMERICANS...  and, knowing that there will always be someone who points out these two colors with their obvious mutations and variations of the DNA, our unity will always be in question...

We have only ONE SOLUTION that will take decades perhaps centuries to manifest and that is interracial marriages and the one basic color of their off springs could possibly UNITE this great country of our but by that time...  CHINA, RUSSIA, and/or the Middle East will have taken over our country economically and our country and her resources will be controlled for their benefit...

SAY IT IS NOT SO...

I wish I could and honestly it does not seem possible but DIVISION causes suffering and heartbreak as we have already seen in this country...  and with each death or each conflict worsens our hatred for the other side, seeking only revenge not unity.

First Lieutenants who were mean to their subordinates were not protect by their subordinates in battles in Vietnam and many of these officers did not return home to their families...  it was more than a color thing there but color was involved.

The unnecessary and senseless murder of GEORGE FLOYD has opened the COLOR flood gates and these flood gates of racial tensions and hatred WILL NOT soon be closed until one eased has been appeased by BENDING OVER BACKWARDS TO MEET THEIR CURRENT NEEDS...  however,

meeting current needs, refurbishing the police departments, and taking down statues that reflect and remind those who are COLORED of the Slavery and the civil war...   UNFORTUNATELY WILL NOT STOP OR END RACISM in the US of A anymore than giving reparations to BLACKS because of slavery will make them FINANCIALLY EQUAL...

In order to be FINANCIALLY EQUAL to someone who is WEALTHY that person MUST HAVE EARNED their financial wealth not inherited it or be given it by the government...  otherwise, they are still not equal and will never be accepted into the WEALTHY CLUBS in our country...

OPRAH WINFREY, MICHAEL JORDAN, and DENZEL WASHINGTON and all those people of color who are like these 3 people of color EARNED THEIR WEALTH the hard way, the old fashion way, the way of hard work and blood, sweat, and tears...  They are wealthy because they DESERVE to be wealthy and in so doing have the COMPLETE RESPECT of whites and blacks alike.

THESE THREE and people like them DON"T SEE COLOR they see AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY for those who want it but not those who want to be given it...  American Racism, Slavery, and Statues did not bother them and if they did they did not let it stand in the way of their DREAMS or their SUCCESS...

VOTE TRUMP

Worshiping Alone

My parents required that I attend both Sunday School and Church every Sunday including those Sundays when the family was on vacation until I graduated from high school...  Once I graduated my attendance on Sundays was sporadic at best and it was then that I realized I could have a personal and private relationship with God on my own and without being in a group of people who claimed to have the same faith as I had.

I quickly realized that these people did not have their own faith but the faith that their ministers and pastors told them to have...  think for them rather than encouraging them to think for themselves...  many of these worshipers have never read the entire Bible themselves but can quote scriptures to make whatever point they want to make...

These people did not have OPEN MINDS nor did they question what their ministers or pastors told them to think...  yet claimed to be very religious.

From this point on, I saw INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION as more of a problem than as an outlet of faith for the faithful.

I have read the BIBLE from cover to cover and while I was reading took notes and wrote down questions that I might have because of what I read.  When I pray, I recite THE LORD'S PRAYER and nothing more or nothing less.

I don't pray for peace
I don't pray for a cure for cancer
I don't pray to end racism

I recite THE LORD'S PRAYER so that God's Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven...  and, that is it...

ADDITIONALLY, I am convinced that my ENTIRE LIFE has been orchestrated and guided by GOD and that whoever I have become is the GIFT that God has given me.

I don't need church on Sunday to reinforce that BELIEF of mine and I don't need to be around other religious people who might think like me...  if this is what they want to do...  GOD, as he had previously stated will be there...

If you are by yourself, GOD will be there if that is what one wants.

The Great Smokey Mountains

When I finally see the signs for THE GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, I know that I am within hollering distance of home...  of course, that is just an expression so please don't understand me...


We pulled into our driveway (actually backed making it easier to unload) in exactly 6 hours and 40 minutes after leaving our Resort in South Myrtle Beach and that time includes stopping for gas and coffee and making two additional pit stops to change drivers.  And, my speed (on average) was only 5 miles above the speed limit...  although for a few minutes, I drove both faster and slower depending upon the situation...  I saw a dozen highway patrolmen (excuse me ladies) both in marked and unmarked vehicles all of which had stopped cars to give them tickets...  and, each time I saw one, I thought about "defunding police departments," and wish they would include these guys...   as I have paid more than my fair share of speeding tickets.

Going down to Myrtle Beach, our 2015 Venza got 26.8 mpg...  only 22.3 while down at the beach...  and, 26.1 coming back which I attribute to climbing the mountains of North Carolina and East TN as opposed to descending the mountains of both those States.

Two of our 3 cats greeted us once they recognized our voices but our Siamese has remained hidden as he gets his feeling's hurt whenever we leave for more than a day and typically stays out-of-our-sight or at least until bedtime as punishment...  but, once he gets over his feline feelings, he acts like we were never out of his sight.

Six and a half hours is not a long drive, but it is long enough to illustrate a subtle reminder to me as to how much I hate driving nowadays whether the road is full of "asshole drivers" or polite ones.  Driving for me has got to be a function of age now and all I really care about when I get behind the wheel is thinking I would feel a lot better if someone drove for me.

My father was just the opposite...  Once he was behind the wheel...  he was in charge and in control and did not stop driving until he was 87 after misjudging his turning radius requirements...  and, to the die he died, he could not understand how that happened.

IT IS NICE TO BE BACK HOME...

Final Thoughts of Myrtle Beach June 2020

AT 2:00 ON OUR LAST DAY HERE...  the umbrella and chairs were empty as the couple who had rented them at not yet returned from wherever they had gone...  but, their rental fee was still good until 4:00...

A black couple with an entourage of about 15 other pretty evenly divided between adults and children decided to lay down their towels and chairs directly in front of the empty chairs where if the renters had returned, there was not enough room for them to get into their seats.  The older couple managed to sit in the chairs as if they belonged to them.

About 2:20, the lifeguard came by and asked them to leave the chairs because they had been rented by another couple...  and, the black couple along with their entourage yelled obscenities out at the lifeguard (who happened to be black as well) for having the damn nerve to ask them to leave...  as if they were entitled to whatever they wanted to take over.

My wife and I were sitting right beside the action and for a while there thought that we might become the victims of black violence because the black couple and their entourage was getting pretty frigging mad at everything and everyone without range of their voices and bodies.

The lifeguard got on his walkie talkie and radioed for assistance...  and, as soon as the black couple realized what he had done, they left and took all their followers with them...

That is the first time in over 20 years that anything like that had happened at Myrtle Beach were we were that close to the action and could have been in a position to have been harmed...

THIS and THAT

Day 6 - at Myrtle Beach, SC

This is our last day at Myrtle Beach and the sun is out and strong with not a cloud in sight and the weather forecast yields a day with no rain in sight...  hot and humid...  with a slight wind to cool off the senses...

As I sit beside my floor-to-ceiling sliding door window, looking out at the Atlantic Ocean, I see calm waves slowing approaching the shore, fizzling out when they hit the shore...  and, I see a light blue sky from north to south and a far east horizon where the water and sky meet...   and, I see the lifeguard setting-up chairs along the line the tractor made as it scraped the surface of the ground...  and, I see early-bird vacationers who like to walk before the sun rises too high in the sky...

Inside my rented efficiency apartment, the air cools the air and the smell of heated coffee lingers in the living-kitchen room while FOX NEWS plays on and on behind me...  and, my wife who finally leaves the bed gets ready for her final day in the sun here at Myrtle which she has been visiting each summer for the last 50 years...

Our last supper here on the coast will be at either Chili's or Red Lobster and an early night will be claimed as we leave before sunrise the next day to beat the crowd on our drive back to TN...

All Creatures Great and Small