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At Times Miscommunication

As citizens of the United States something tells me that we are on the right path. We are learning to look past small differences about one another and seeing the bigger picture. We are actually trying. It is a journey I understand all too well, especially when there is so much deep history, some good but more bad. Although the good has always outweighed the bad.

Personally, I grew up hearing and seeing so many things that I had to learn to look at every situation with a fresh set of eyes. I understand the saying ‘All Lives Matter’ and I also understand how and why it angered some African Americans. Me being one of them. It is not the saying of ‘All Lives Matter’ that was the problem. The problem was it was used to counter ‘Black Lives Matter’. That is the reason why every situation has to be looked at in full.

While the constitution is written in black and white, when it comes to the matter of respecting one another the answer is and could never be black and white. It is on us to genuinely treat people with respect. I know that some people will take this and try to use it to attack freedom of speech.

Most of you know me by now, and know that respecting each other does not mean walking on eggshells. If you are genuinely having a hard conversation with someone and your heart is truly in the right place, we can’t control someone taking words to respect one another and try to use it to silence people. Where there is good there is always bad.

Trying To Understand All Pain

Now if you don’t look at the full situation it could cause more anger on top of bad situations. I could also understand how a person can just see ‘All Lives Matter’ and think my life matters too. I will tell you today with all of my heart your life matters. One person I always think of is the poet (Doreen O’Neill) because she says ‘does my pain not matter?’ in such a way that it makes you consider the tears of every man, woman, and child.

It is just that ‘Black Lives Matter’ was created because of so many black lives being taken at disproportionate numbers from those who promised to serve and protect. Many times, our issues are simple miscommunications. At least for most of us. For instance, I can also see how ‘All Lives Matter’ could have been created because maybe a person of another race has a family member who lost their life in the same manner.

The other reason, which was the reason I assumed, was it was a counter against ‘Black lives Matter’. Although, for the person with good intentions saying ‘All Lives Matter’ was not a counter, but a way to include the people that they know which also lost their life in a like manner. Like I said, miscommunication. Them not understanding that so many more black lives were being taken than others. That is the only reason why the calling for ‘Black Lives Matter’ was specific.

Y’all Got That Good Energy

The injustice against African American people became overwhelming. ‘Black Lives Matter’ was really a way to remind America that our lives matter ‘too’. All of us black, white, etc. just have to use our actions in a genuine manner, and it will come through as such. At least most times. Shout out to African Americans because we are on the path to loving and respecting each other. Our eyes are starting to see what the real game is. In fact, the energy is different with ‘almost’ every American I have encountered recently. The energy is good. So, shout out to all y’all.

Don’t allow those with the wrong motives to put all of that hate back into our hearts. Can’t we all just get along? Lol. We can have so much more success as individuals and as a whole if we all just keep our eyes on respecting each other and considering each person’s civil rights.

I kind of feel like I want to say I love y’all. I know weird right. Lol. Most of us understand that at the end of the day it is on us to protect the constitution. I don’t have the perfect view of every situation. So, I apologize if I missed something. I want all y’all as American people and people all over the world to be happy today. It’s Saturday.

July 26, 2025
Protect Civil Rights

Many may not enjoy my thoughts based on my experience about the war on United States Citizens. We know that this is an actual thing. Officials have stated on record that even Judges are being threatened. With that Citizens of America are being referred to behind closed doors as the enemy within. Not only are they being discussed as if they are Saddam Hussein, but it is also stated that the United States military is being used against its Citizens.

What really baffles me is how easily these claims from a credible source were brushed over. It kind of feels like to me there is a disconnect in the heart of the citizens between wanting your civil rights and being a part of the very reason they are being taken. What I have noticed when speaking about these things is the people don’t want to hear that they too have a part to play in protecting our civil rights. You can’t say you want civil rights but think it is okay to violate your neighbors’.

Race Wars Are Distractions

Everything is full circle and eventually what we help to build will come knocking at our door. When I say for the people, I truly wish to be for the people in my stance and not only for one group of people. It eventually leads you to be a part of the very dictatorship you hate. From what I have witnessed, every group has been a participant in violating another’s civil rights. If you are asked to violate someone’s rights regardless of what you are told the reasoning is, it is your duty to decline. You never know in what ways you are being manipulated.

Therefore, it is best not to do to someone else what you don’t want done to you. Sometimes I feel forced to pick a side black or white, when the truth is I see race wars as a pacifier to a much bigger problem. Sometimes I call out African Americans other times I call out Caucasian Americans, Spanish, Asian, etc. Every group is being used in some form or another to hurt the whole. The hearts of the people are pretty much the same. If they don’t feel that their particular civil rights are being violated, they are okay with accepting assignments to violate someone else’s.

Many Died To Give Us Civil Rights

I know y’all are not going to like that last statement, but somebody gotta keep it real with y’all. With that I will go even further to say with the history of African American people more than any other group you should want your hands to be clean of violating civil rights. Ancestors black and white fought too hard for the very rights we seem to take for granted. We have all had ancestors to lay their lives on the line to give us our civil rights. As the old saying goes with the way we have behaved ‘they are probably rolling over in the grave’ due to our lack of upholding rights they died to give us.

Majority of the hatred we are seeing play out is a result of what I stated earlier in the article which is the targeting of citizens. Although I understand that this is not the only country to target citizens, it still does not change the fact that it is not the American way. Or at least that is the statement. In America we were given laws to protect our civil rights. In the national anthem we sing from our hearts with one of every American’s favorite lines being “the land of the free, and the home of the brave”.

One Hand Washes Another

So many people from all over admire the American way. Mainly the civil rights that were made to protect the people. If we don’t stand for anything else in this world, if we love this country, we must stand to protect our Civil Rights. In order to protect your civil rights, you must protect your neighbors’ civil rights. It must be the line that is not allowed to be crossed. If you can’t do anything else, make sure you never put on the uniform of assisting to violate civil rights.

July 19, 2025
Langston Hughes

Today I read poems from Langston Hughes. He seemed like a man who thought a lot. His every journey from a night on the town to his woman of interest, he wrote into a poem. Even his trials of being African American and the struggles he endured. I like reading and hearing from writers and artists from the past because they didn’t hide their feelings. Langston Hughes wrote real vulnerabilities in his poetry. Things that real life people suffer with every day. They remind me that tears are not taboo. Reading his poetry brings me back to reality.

Many trials have been overcome, and many trials have been lost. I am always rooting for the downtrodden and wanting something good to finally come into their life. It seems that at one point Langston was downtrodden. Now today he is Langston Hughes. I bet he never thought there would be a day when his name alone is the Trophy. He traveled a lot, seeing the world from many different angles. He saw the people that were unseen in society, and he wrote from a distant point of view but like it was the person’s own feelings. He wrote about the rich in society the same.

The Eyes of A Deep Soul

After reading some of his poetry I look at the cover of his book and in his eyes I see a man with a deep soul. He looks real in the eyes. You can see pain but not in a bad way. He seems like he knows that life comes with pain. You see strength. Like a man who will never give up. There is also a mystery that drives his curiosity of the world and people. Langston Hughes also seems to be a realist in a way. Not to driven in fantasies.

This is all just me trying to understand this great poet. With that, I am not an expert or even trained in understanding the human mind. Pushing myself to understand another human from the little they willingly share with me helps me to understand humanity in a unbiased way. If I can understand a person from the little I learn, I can understand the complexities of humanity.

When I look into his eyes, I also see a dark side. A dark side does not always mean evil. In this case I don’t mean evil only a dark side. In addition, he seems like a sensitive man. Being able to feel and connect with all things in his path. There is something about the eyes and a voice of a person that intrigues me. It is so intimate to me in a non-sexual way that I can barely look people in the eyes. It is intense at times. Though it is sometimes easy. Most times it has nothing to do with the other person whether it is easy or not. Langston has special eyes. They tell a story.

June 27, 2025
Who Takes The Blame of Society

How We Judge Deeds

Who Takes The Blame of Society? In this article we will have a non-biased conversation about key figures and how they were perceived by large portions of humanity. There was a time when I thought Martin Luther King set us backwards as African American people. When in fact it is the opposite. What he did for not only people that looked like him, but he brought about change that was better for all kind. He had to fight for justice. So, what makes me or anybody else think that we don’t also have a role to play in the balance of good and evil. One man can’t hold the troubles of society on his back forever.

Why Do We Think Like This

With that Martin didn’t do it alone but he led the cause. It is easier to feel like that one person with good intentions can save the world. Only this is not possible. Which is why I ask Who Takes The Blame of Society? Martin was blamed even long after his death for the continuing downfall of African American communities. While the entire world ignored all of the tactics deployed in making sure that African American people would not thrive as a community. Those tactics are to blame, not Martin or the freedom fighters. We ignore evil and blame the people with good intentions.

My belief in where this started is with the story of Jesus Christ. Now let me say this article is not what religion I subscribe to. Nor to talk negatively about any religion. In fact, I am here to say whether the story is true or not, it made an impact on the way society thinks as a whole. Society seems to believe that a person with good intentions should die or be tortured for the sins of all mankind. The villain goes about causing chaos and then we look to the decent and the good in society and blame them for every evil action being committed.

Blaming The Crucified

Why do we victim blame? It is easier to blame victims in situations. Especially when you know you can’t help them. The easiest way to deal with this in our hearts is to hate them. Now today figures like Martin Luther King and Jesus Christ are loved but we all know that was not the case when they were living. They were tortured and hung on a cross literally and figuratively.

Over and over again large portions of society have joined hand in hand to slay or torture the decent in the earth. When you try to do a good thing, it is never taken for the good it is. Most people see it and seek to find flaws in you. Which they always will, because having good intentions for society does not make you without sin. Which is why I ask society Who Takes The Blame of Society?

Do We Need Perfection To Do Good

Many times, the homeless are feeding the homeless. When a homeless person that also is an addict makes sure that the homeless person near him or her doesn’t miss a meal because they can’t stand knowing that another goes hungry. Does it make their good deed not real because they are an addict?

Or how about when they see a young person at risk of becoming an addict and they tell them no young brother or sister, that is not the way. Does it then make them fake because they stopped another human from taking the destructive path they once took. Or how about when they become clean from drugs can they not help another become clean because of their past? It is like finding fault in every good deed is just a way to stop people from wanting to do good.

Evil Is and Always Will Be The Problem

I used to think that being too nice, caused problems. When in fact being too evil has corrupted everything nice. No person is perfect and even if you were, people will still find fault or even create fault. Place the blame where it stems. Which is those with the power to crucify and torture the good and decent in the earth.

Remember that when George Floyd was murdered, people said it was okay because he was an addict. How long will we allow oppressors to justify their evil with an unjust scale? We stood up as one unit the whole world and agreed that it was wrong. Nonetheless, evil corrupted our good intentions. Saying o but he was an drug addict. So do we murder a man because he is an addict?

We also have developed a mindset that if a person seeks to do good, we are somehow owed a detailed description of their private life. This is a very toxic way of thinking. People come at celebrities all the time and think that it is okay to tear these people apart just because the person has a talent or appeared on tv. Is it their fault for the psychological and at times physical abuse their subjected to simply because they are known for being a great singer, actress, or etc. Or is it the people’s fault who harass and belittle them?

Having a talent does not make you perfect. People have become so entitled that they are willing to strip away your humanity and think it is okay to do so because you’re an idol. The poet by the name of (Doreen O’Neill) said it best when she asked the world “does my pain not matter?” Many people that receive attention for doing something good or for just having a talent can ask the same question.

The weight of evil in this world should not be placed on the shoulders of one or two good intentioned. It is every man, woman and child’s responsibility to bring more good back into the earth. Good intentioned hearts don’t deserve to be crucified to save mankind. It is all of our responsibility to bring good in the world. Most importantly you don’t have to be perfect to do it.

June 25, 2025