There is a lot going on out there and some of it really makes me wish I had never accessed the news in any way. Last week a couple of kids were arrested because they had decided that it would be funny, cool, whatever to kill people based on the color of their victims’ skin and then finish off their feat of intelligence by taking a shot at Barack Obama. I just cannot deal with the kind of deep seeded ignorance and stupidity that is required to be a racist. Racists come in all colors, white people are not the only racists in the world.
It says a lot to our lack of imagination when we attempt to break everything down into the simplest of terms. To the average person there are black people and there are white people. I have met thousands of people in my day and I have yet to see anyone that is black or anyone that is white. I have also yet to see anyone prove to me that the color of their skin is an indication of the kind of person they are. Black hating white people are just as ignorant and white hating black people. I have always been and advocate for eliminating race from any conversation and forcing people to rely on the strength of their character in order to get what they want out of life. If you look at me and hate me because of the color of my skin before you even know me then you are a fool. If you act the stereotype and then complain that one group or another is “keeping you down” then you are a fool. People make their own decisions and people make much better decisions when they decide based on the context of the issue and not on the color of anyone’s skin.
Man I needed to get that off my chest. I don’t understand racism (when I say racism I am talking about anyone hating anyone else because of skin color – racism is not exclusive to any one race) and I just cannot understand people that will not vote for a candidate simply because of the color of his skin. That is ignorance to the highest degree in my opinion.
So after I got done digesting that bit of ugliness I go to CNN.com today and there is a story about how Exxon/Mobil posted $15 Billion in profits last quarter. That is a record you know. Those profits were recorded in the last quarter when gas was still almost $4 a gallon. That is the profit off of the misery of millions of Americans. But Americans have changed their ways and gas prices have been falling for weeks now. Americans are driving billions of less miles and we have dropped our consumption of gasoline by millions of gallons. Will the American public get our revenge or will Exxon/Mobil post yet another record profit in three months? Let me put it this way. If Exxon/Mobil posts another record profit in three months then there is something very wrong with the way that this country takes care of its people.
So I am taking a vacation from the news until after the election. I hate bad news and lately it seems that the only kind of news we have to read is bad news.
No Comments Yet
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Leave a comment
