"When I found out that people were actually coming to my blog I used to allow them to comment without checking first.
"But the majority weren't even reading the blog let alone the links in the posts before making comments...
"My only friend at infant and 1st year of primary school was Michael.
"The reason we were friends was that I was the only bastard, and he was the only black kid.
"And, as we had to play by ourselves, we became friends.
"I'm not trying to compare my formative years with the racist abuse he had to put up with.
"But the end results were the same.
"I always wonder what happened to him.
"When I was 16 and ran away to my grans, she pointed him out to me as he rode past on his bike.
"But I never went downstairs to reconnect, which I always regretted.
"I know how those years shaped me and I do wonder how they shaped him."
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John Trudell, a Native American activist explains in simple terms the social engineering of white people to do the bidding of 'the powers that be' in exterminating spiritual tribes globally for many centuries past.
It takes five generations to completely conquer and change the beliefs and priorities of a grouping of people, and white people were the first to have their tribes decimated or destroyed.
TPTB use groupings of people to their end and then discard or genocide them, and race, gender or sexual preference, or nationality makes no difference.
Ignorance isn't owned by any one skin color or nation.
Ignorance has been brought to all of us, on one level or another, by those who, over the last 40+ years have systemically destroyed critical thinking in education and anything amounting to real information (news) for understanding the world in which we live and who is manipulating it.
As people we are pitted and played against each other the live long day, told who is 'different' and who is dangerous.
"You've got to be taught, before it's too late, to hate all the folks your relatives hate, you've got to be carefully taught." - from 'South Pacific'
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Actually this article illustrates why I never had my own children, even though I am great with kids and have god-parented 6 so far.
I live in Texas and can still remember back in the early 70's gay men being dragged out of their private homes while sleeping in the same bed and being charged with sodomy.
Real charges. Real time.
I knew when I was 11, and I asked my mother what homosexual meant, that that was me.
I remember feeling a light relief since I finally had a name for what my difference was.
Anyway, my whole life I've had terrrible fears of having a child, maybe two and then making an innocent mistake (as all parents do eventually).
And having my children ripped from me and going to foster care, where only God knows what might happen to them.
I dont know if I could have survived such a tragedy. ?..........
The flip side is my god-children have been lavished with all the love and care I never was able to give to my own children.
Not just trips to the park, restaurants; I mean paid trips to the doctor, school clothes, toys, and bikes etc.
Always being a loving shoulder for them to lean on and count on.
After all those diaper changes and late nights on sick watch I have gotten back all that love invested in spades!
Sorry to ramble on Aang, but this topic is so very near to my heart!