I’m Just Saying….
I’m Just Saying….
The original intent of this column was to provide social commentary on people in our town, our county, our state and our nation.
That concept was fueled by the rabid anger and disrespect shown for our President with accusations designed to denigrate and belittle him for having the nerve to be in the position in the first place.
Do we really think we can embrace a tolerance for each other if we constantly show and teach disrespect for our highest office, an office I was always taught to have reverence for?
I created the conversation between WR and BT because we as a nation are not wholly addressing the issue of race and it is the simmering dynamite charge waiting to ignite a civil war among the races.
It is my hope that their conversation sparked something that makes us want to take some positive actions that reminds us all that we are children of God. We actually have a major piece in place—the Community Worship Services held each summer. Let’s build on that. As BT ended the conversation by saying “we’ve got a lot of work to do.” Yes we do.
It doesn’t matter what your beliefs, and values are when you have hate speech permeating the airwaves on a 24/7 basis.
Human beings are susceptible to a constant barrage of negative opinions and charges and all of us are not strong enough, or willing enough, to look beyond what is aimed at us. I was so disheartened to hear elected officials and citizens say that each day they awake to find President Obama in office they just want to kill themselves.
Wow, is that the new sacrifice for your country based on your beliefs? To want to take your life because a Black man has the audacity to be President of the United States – is that the new norm? Does the fact that, based on our democracy, he was duly elected mean anything? Do you really think that any one political party has cleaner hands than the other?
Who takes the blame for creating the economic downturn our country is in the midst of when, for the almighty dollar, companies were downsized and jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor? How frustrated are you when you have to call for service with any one of the communication or product devices you own?
You get a customer service person you cannot understand and it is obvious that they are reading from a manual. Don’t we have people here who could do that as well? Oh, I forgot we can’t live on 40 cents an hour, so we have to go on the government dole, which we get ostracized for, and politicians don’t want to pay us the unemployment we paid into but want to constantly complain that we are lazy and don’t want to work. I’m just saying…
I want my granddaughter, a smart, cute, promising pediatrician, to have pride personally, pride in her President, her parents and her country as she begins her journey through life.
She asked me a very profound question recently, “Granny why do people hate the President so much?” I tried my best to explain the prevailing political atmosphere and she countered with “Then why do we even elect people who are willing to work for the people who elected them but receive opposition for trying to do so?”
Well…An on point response was not forthcoming at that moment. Any ideas on what I should say are welcomed.
I think we need to take a time out and prepare ourselves to answer such questions for our future generation.
Do we really know what they’re thinking when there is a ferocious appetite for revenge, disrespect, salaciousness, and the sport of destroying another human being?
The word angry is thrown around carelessly and somewhat recklessly because it is always assigned to something someone did that was so offensive, your only release is to make sure that person never take another life giving breath if you personally have anything to do with it.
Oh wait, I think that’s called murder in our system of laws and in God’s Ten Commandments it is surely a sin.
I’m just saying…We have got to nurture some more real heroes, and soon.
Am I living in an imaginary utopia where in the past as a child you were constantly among people who loved you, people who looked after your well being—A Village I guess—with my sense of community broken? If we grow angry children do we take full responsibility or do we blame it on someone else?
Right here at home the need to shore up the village is real and strong. All of our children need people to look up to and strive to be like.
The Mentoring Program is another great place to start because we have some wonderful heroes living right here, let’s show that to children who don’t have that luxury in the environment in which they currently live.
It is hard economic times and people are hurting and accept it or not we have grown a future generation that scares the bejesus out of me. Do we dare to hope that it will get better?
The vision I see for Monticello is probably idyllic in an unreasonable way but still I think it’s achievable….I’ve always touted “tourism” as our very own viable and home grown commodity…I’m just saying.