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

SOCIAL UNREST

This video clip aired 3 weeks ago...

Social Unrest:  is characterized by the general dissatisfaction of a group and the unconventional and sometimes violent ways people tend to show it. One example is rioting or when a large group of people behaves in a violent and uncontrolled way.

According to Wikipedia:
Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance or civil unrest, is an activity arising from a mass act of civil disobedience (such as a demonstration, riot, or strike) in which the participants become hostile toward authority, and authorities incur difficulties in maintaining public safety and order, over the disorderly crowd.  It is, in any form, prejudicial to public law and order.

Social Unrest or Civil Disobedience whichever way you want to go, will cost Trump the election this year...   our economy and economic growth is not as important to us as social unrest is and has become...  unfortunately, this social unrest will result in a soon to take place RACE WAR...

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