Some of the horrors I've unleashed on my Deviantart page over the years. Pleasant dreams.
To my family, I can only say, yep, he's as disturbed as he seems...
Friday, October 28, 2016
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Colin Kaepernieck
By Ed Clemente Photography - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18158956
So T-Bo kneels and its all la-la-la-la-la. Colin Kaepernick does so in protest of police brutality and our nation's resurgent racism and its all, "SINNER! You have blasphemed our great nation! You're a traitor, boy! Repent or you shall be daaaaaamned!"
Hmm. Right. I love how open-minded people are in this country, don't you?
You people need to calm down--and I mean all the firebrands and the cops having a hard time understanding what this movement stands for. As I understand its a solemn protest against the rampant, almost daily shooting of African-Americans in the last few years.
Colin Kaepernick should be applauded for the restraint he's shown by calling attention to a serious and deadly issue, with one simple gesture. We're so busy singing America's praises that we've forgot the hard road our citizens have been forced to trod to snatch even the minimum amount of equality. Eighty years had to pass before the promise of the Declaration of Independence, that 'all men are created equal', became a legal reality. And that required a bloody Civil War that demonstrated our noble ideals of freedom were clearly lacking.
Another one hundred years had to pass before we enacted the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act to give the 13th & 14th Amendments some teeth. I've had my own disturbing moment, in Sunday School class. I was a member of the Mormon Church, now inactive, and this class was taught by a man I'd known all my life, a grown-up I'd respected growing up in the Church.He commented--and I didn't have to courage to call him out on this--was that sometimes when black people joined the church, their skin color lightened.
Yep. These are the same people who took 112 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued before they offered the priesthood to church members of color. Questioning Colin Kaepernick's motives or his patriotism is only a distraction from the very real issues his protest has raised. He's rightfully challenged our cozy notions of equality and challenges us to live up to the ideals we claim to champion as Americans.
So [1st], I thank you for taking a stand, so to speak.
And [2nd], challenge accepted.
So T-Bo kneels and its all la-la-la-la-la. Colin Kaepernick does so in protest of police brutality and our nation's resurgent racism and its all, "SINNER! You have blasphemed our great nation! You're a traitor, boy! Repent or you shall be daaaaaamned!"
Hmm. Right. I love how open-minded people are in this country, don't you?
You people need to calm down--and I mean all the firebrands and the cops having a hard time understanding what this movement stands for. As I understand its a solemn protest against the rampant, almost daily shooting of African-Americans in the last few years.
Colin Kaepernick should be applauded for the restraint he's shown by calling attention to a serious and deadly issue, with one simple gesture. We're so busy singing America's praises that we've forgot the hard road our citizens have been forced to trod to snatch even the minimum amount of equality. Eighty years had to pass before the promise of the Declaration of Independence, that 'all men are created equal', became a legal reality. And that required a bloody Civil War that demonstrated our noble ideals of freedom were clearly lacking.
Another one hundred years had to pass before we enacted the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act to give the 13th & 14th Amendments some teeth. I've had my own disturbing moment, in Sunday School class. I was a member of the Mormon Church, now inactive, and this class was taught by a man I'd known all my life, a grown-up I'd respected growing up in the Church.He commented--and I didn't have to courage to call him out on this--was that sometimes when black people joined the church, their skin color lightened.
Yep. These are the same people who took 112 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued before they offered the priesthood to church members of color. Questioning Colin Kaepernick's motives or his patriotism is only a distraction from the very real issues his protest has raised. He's rightfully challenged our cozy notions of equality and challenges us to live up to the ideals we claim to champion as Americans.
So [1st], I thank you for taking a stand, so to speak.
And [2nd], challenge accepted.
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