This Resonates With Me, Too

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For some reason I only just saw this blog Forgottenman published yesterday. Too many irons in the fire, but this man says what a lot of us have been thinking and he says it so well. Have a look:

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

11 thoughts on “This Resonates With Me, Too”

    2. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Because it gave people still irate at the fact that we had a black president an excuse to rail out against a minority again. And because many weren’t ready for a strong female president. And because he waged the dirtiest election in history . Election campaigning has come to be how much mud can you sling at your opponent rather than what have you yourself accomplished.

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    3. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Because it gave people still irate at the fact that we had a black president an excuse to rail out against a minority again. And because many weren’t ready for a strong female president. And because he waged the dirtiest election in history . Election campaigning has come to be how much mud can you sling at your opponent rather than what have you yourself accomplished.

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  2. isaiah46ministries's avatarisaiah46ministries

    As a black female who has lived my life afraid to laugh loud, speak loud, or just walk into some places because of feeling unwanted, I know that racism and racist rhetoric has been used long before Trump to get politicians elected and to keep divisions among the poor. He simply does it with less subtlety, but no less effectively. I told my college students that it is pure genius to prevent poor whites from identifying with poor people of color. It allows the rich to divide and conquer, utilizing feelings of hopelessness to be turned into racial animosity, so that the white poor blames everybody but corporate America and their more wealthy brothers and sisters for their poverty and addictions. As long as racist rhetoric generates race hate, powerful people will use it to stay in power. This has been true since slavery ended. Read the rhetoric from European immigrants and the current immigrants, same words: will never assimilate, different values, rapists and criminals (Irish and Italians), will take your jobs, cannot speak the language. What is amazing is that we don’t teach history in a way that allows people to recognize it being repeated.

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  3. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

    This disaster has been waiting hundreds of years to fully surface. Yes, I didn’t do it and you didn’t do it but so many of our countrymen did it and are doing it and maybe we could have done more to stop them. I don’t know. I wish I had an answer.

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  4. butimbeautiful's avatarbutimbeautiful

    Yeah, completely agree. I’m an Australian and would say the same about Australia. It’s not enough to say, we’re a great and good country and anyone who says otherwise is unpatriotic. We need to acknowledge that we can be shitty too.

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  5. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

    I taught in Australia in a school in the middle of a government migrant housing district in a steel mill area 48 years ago. There was certainly as much prejudice against the Italian and Greek immigrants (“Wops” and “Wogs”) as the aboriginals. Hopefully this has changed.

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