
Martin Luther King Jr.
Well, I can say that I am very surprised to be logged back in here musing along so soon. Usually it takes me a couple of weeks to get a hankering up for a good piss and moan session.
I haven’t felt well lately. I could sleep forever. All I need is a bathroom and a couch or bed and my life would be fulfilled. I also need power to go to that little 2 room shack consisting of a place to nest and a place to poop. I also need an unending supply of benadryl and beer. What more could a guy ask for? Well, a lot, I guess.
A little advertisement for Obama coins came on the television the other day while I was watching, and I rolled my eyes, sitting all alone with the television. The “yes we can”/”I have faith in the american people” rhetoric was just overwhelming to me for some reason. I suppose it’s because THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN’T DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE THIS INSANE WORLD…or the crapped out economy. I guess if you tell yourself something long enough, you start believing it. I think this guy actually believes all of this.
If I’ve learned anything from this past election, it’s that there is still a big problem of racism in the United States. I’m not just talking about whites being racist towards blacks. Overall…I think that everyone is somewhat racist. Maybe not racist…maybe it’s pride in their own heritage. I know that I’ve seen some of the most racist things said by black people, though. Many Mexican people are racists. I suppose the one thing that ties humans all together in this crazy world is that we all think we (our heritage) are the best. I like to think that I’m not racist. Yeah, I’ll tell a racist joke every now and then. That doesn’t make me racist, it makes me funny. I take every opportunity I can to tell a joke. I am an equal opportunity offender.
In the United States, obviously, the major problem between blacks and whites is the whole slavery issue that was prevelant until approximately 150 years ago. In the United States, it was primarily whites that owned black slaves. There were also black slave owners. Hell, there are black slave owners now. Not in the United States, but there still is a such thing as slavery in the world. Every color, creed, nationality, and race has been enslaved at some time or another. What about the African people that sold the slaves. One thing I don’t understand is a black person wanting to go back to the “motherland”. Yes, in the United States, they have to live with the ancestors of people that enslaved them. In Africa, they live with the ancestors of the ones that sold them into slavery.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King Jr. – “I have a dream”
What MLK wanted is a far cry from what is going on today. Why can’t it be like that quote?
I love you whether you be black, white, yellow, green or purple.
-Beans
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