In the late 1970's I was learning about the racial ethnic cultures from new friends and colleagues. They were helping the white boy "to get it". I needed to understand in order to do my impossible job, which was to be sacrificed upon the alter of compliance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by desegregating The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. I really did need a job, you see.
I was given a very fine education on the subject of racial bias, segregation, insular societies, and cultures I never knew existed.
I was, for what ever reason trusted by the various groups I worked with.
Two of my black friends who were 12 and 15 years older than I took me under their cloak of protection. They were people of the "Brown" transition of the mid-1950s, of sit-ins at the lunch counters in OKC, and of the segregated and desegregated system of de jure separation of races in my State.
The two men, and later several others led me through the labyrinth of racial politics within, among, and between the various elements of the Black Cultures I had to deal with.
Now I said all that to present a simple homily of what is white privilege as seen from the view of those who have not the benefit. They said, White Privilege is exactly like Egypt in the time of Moses. There were all of those Egyptians going about their daily business almost totally oblivious to the Hebrew slaves among them. Even the most common Egyptian was held in high regard as a citizen of the society. Where as the Hebrew slaves had no rights or privileges, only drudgery and work and only a hope of redemption.
They were waiting for a Moses to lead them away from Egypt to a Promised Land of Milk and Honey, to their land of their privilege. In that example I was told that desegregation was not their goal, nor did they seek integration with the larger society.They didn't want equality (they knew intrinsically that they were superior) they wanted equity, and privilege. They were waiting for Moses to lead them to freedom and their land of promise.
That, as I came to understand it, change my own goals in my job to goals of divesting the system of the laws, regulations, and practices that perpetuated the system of white privilege. I spent almost three decades creating equity and removing systemic inequity. I was to tear down and seek out the vestiges of dualism constructed under the Jim Crow laws of separate and unequal societies. I couldn't be their Moses of course, nor could I accompany them to the promised land. My problem was mostly the white privilege ingrained in the State, and white people who did not want to surrender it. Here we are 40 years down the line and the white population has circled around to a full rebuttal of their having to surrender "Their America". It is a desperate last grasp of privilege by a majority race. It will lead to a time of equity or a time of apartheid, and we are on the cusp of one of those two futures.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
NIMBY-NIMBY-NIMBY-NIMBY For six years or more Aberdeen, Washington has had a "Homeless Problem".
Aberdeen, WA: "The Washington State courts have repeatedly upheld that government must take the “least restrictive” approach to religious organizations that claim a mandate to serve and care for the poor. What that has meant in practice is that local municipalities have set 90 day caps on durations that churches are allowed to host tent cities on their property....So the city gives people outside here a date they have to move by, let’s not ask where they should move to, the city seems to think that that is not their problem, even when confronted by the fact that the support systems available are inadequate to handle the volume of unemployed and underemployed people in the town."
What we may be looking at is the beginning of the new refugee problem compounding a local homeless problem (Oh yeah, how do you know that?) Word is that is beginning to be seen all along the Washington and Oregon Coast and I-5 corridor. This is in addition to the upswing of homes being sold to California residents. But the refuge of Washington and Oregon is ill perceived. Their drought has produced a larger deficit of available water than it has for Southern California. The difference is in the density of the population being served. If refugees want a stable world to survive in, go East of the Mississippi River. This is why America needed planning for these possibilities a decade ago. Instead we stuck our political heads in the sand and now all we can say is NIMBY,..NIMBY...NIMBY
2015: http://www.homepdx.net/archives/647
2013: http://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/?p=11661
2010: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/aberdeen-wa/THMO6M5AO1B1I1TCG/p13
Monday, August 24, 2015
Recent VA propaganda
Recent VA propag
When shit doesn't add up........
390,000 veterans of all wars are currently receiving VA benefits for PTSD. Wow that's sure a lot isn't it? Well let's see, there's about 1.6 million vets from Iraq and Afghanistan and another 500 thousand from Desert Storm and roughly 800 thousand left alive from the in-country Vietnam War. That's 2.9 million live vets and only 390,000 vets awarded PTSD disability. Only 13.4 % are getting VA benefits for PTSD.
Well then why does The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimate that PTSD afflicts: Almost 31 percent of Vietnam veterans. As many as 10 percent of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans. 11 percent of veterans of the war in Afghanistan (Iraq not included)....I'll bet you the recent percentages are low, people are still in service and are not counted.... but then it only pays 13.4%? Hey and guess what they are worried about happening FRAUD! No not under-serving veterans needs but that a few might get what they don't deserve.All I have to say is that DARPA better develop those robots and drone fighters before the next war in Iran.anda is
The Army etc. believes
that they have cured many with PTSD from our last wars.
Cured PTSD is not eligible for benefits. Personally I think curing PTSD is like curing a paraplegic. Prosthesis are required in both instances. That's not curing. PTSD re-occurs....that's a fact....notice the Nam percentage, that from older guys who reach their 60's and wham shit happens. Ah what the hell two decades of procrastination and the Nam guys will all be gone and the VA will have no problem.
When shit doesn't add up........
390,000 veterans of all wars are currently receiving VA benefits for PTSD. Wow that's sure a lot isn't it? Well let's see, there's about 1.6 million vets from Iraq and Afghanistan and another 500 thousand from Desert Storm and roughly 800 thousand left alive from the in-country Vietnam War. That's 2.9 million live vets and only 390,000 vets awarded PTSD disability. Only 13.4 % are getting VA benefits for PTSD.
Well then why does The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimate that PTSD afflicts: Almost 31 percent of Vietnam veterans. As many as 10 percent of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans. 11 percent of veterans of the war in Afghanistan (Iraq not included)....I'll bet you the recent percentages are low, people are still in service and are not counted.... but then it only pays 13.4%? Hey and guess what they are worried about happening FRAUD! No not under-serving veterans needs but that a few might get what they don't deserve.All I have to say is that DARPA better develop those robots and drone fighters before the next war in Iran.anda is
The Army etc. believes
Cured PTSD is not eligible for benefits. Personally I think curing PTSD is like curing a paraplegic. Prosthesis are required in both instances. That's not curing. PTSD re-occurs....that's a fact....notice the Nam percentage, that from older guys who reach their 60's and wham shit happens. Ah what the hell two decades of procrastination and the Nam guys will all be gone and the VA will have no problem.
The Great American Divide
If the Great American Divide can be overcome it will take an outside threat not intrinsically political in nature to do so. The hatred is so great only fear of mutual destruction could ever reunite us. The message here is typical of those that see Democrats as criminal and Republicans as martyred saints. We are letting our radicals jerk us back and forth.
Donald Trump States: If Hillary Clinton Were Republican, ‘She’d Already Be in Jail’
If Hillary Clinton were a Republican, she would "already be in jail" over the issues surrounding her use of a private email server, presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday, and it will probably take a Republican president to be elected to make her face charges.
"Had there not been a [Gen. David] Petraeus, and you know, the catastrophic events that happened around him, it would be a different story," Trump, who is at the top of most major national polls, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program. "If this were a Republican, somebody would already be indicted."
Clinton's decision to use a private server, said Trump, is "very serious" and "probably criminal. I think almost you could say, almost certainly criminal. And it looks to me like she's not going to be prosecuted. And that's only because the prosecutors are Democrats."
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-emails-prosecute/2015/08/20/id/670989/#ixzz3jll1wAHG
"Had there not been a [Gen. David] Petraeus, and you know, the catastrophic events that happened around him, it would be a different story," Trump, who is at the top of most major national polls, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program. "If this were a Republican, somebody would already be indicted."
Clinton's decision to use a private server, said Trump, is "very serious" and "probably criminal. I think almost you could say, almost certainly criminal. And it looks to me like she's not going to be prosecuted. And that's only because the prosecutors are Democrats."
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-emails-prosecute/2015/08/20/id/670989/#ixzz3jll1wAHG
Sunday, July 12, 2015
The Making of an Apostate : It was a Dark and Stormy Night
The beginning of my exploration into my apostasy.
The Making Of An Apostate (Moving To A Higher Ground On A Foggy Rock Strewn Path.)
The Making Of An Apostate (Moving To A Higher Ground On A Foggy Rock Strewn Path.)
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