David and Goliath…

Ukraine…David…Goliath…Russia…

A biblical story with a twist…is playing itself out before the eyes of the world…

While we watch…pay special attention to the will and reserve of Ukraine…They are faced with the task of battling a giant…a giant about to fall…due to a dictator imposing his small ideals upon the shoulders of Russian citizens who view Ukraine as a brother nation…A true and pure show of cowardice as is with all sociopathic narcissists, such as Putin.

America had its taste of what such a destructive being can do embodied in Trump…our nation is still working to heal and recover from the deep division…chaos…propaganda…cult followers (still continuing to promote division and propaganda in the form of the GOP) caused by handing over the reins to a self-serving con-man…

What we are witnessing in the Ukrainian people is a purity of courage…commitment…and an “all-in” loyalty and “ride or die” mindset that keeps them true to themselves and their belief in democracy and their right to be free and live free…

How small everything else appears…when viewing men…women…and children…yes, children! Willing to stand up to a giant…and lay down their lives for one another to preserve their freedom!

All of us…in the name of freedom and the propagating of peace…we must do what we must to ensure that Ukraine…David…prevails over Putin…the face of Russia…Goliath…we must assist in pulling back the sling that holds the stone…to fall the ogre that cushions himself with the blood of the innocents. 

Most assuredly, Ukraine…as well as those in Russia who are at the mercy of a “madman.”  Hatred must not be propagated against those who live in fear…a country divided that cannot fully voice their disapproval…without fear of retaliation.  Yet, we have seen those who have defied retaliatory measures to stand in solidarity with Ukraine.

A new world is emerging…

A world of accountability…

Putin has committed war crimes…using force that has taken lives…destroyed homes…and disrupted a country’s peaceful existence to satisfy his delusion of world domination…

How many countries must fall?  How many must suffer at the hands of these tyrants before they are stopped? How many must taste homelessness and loss?

Our commitments to peace and freedom will be constantly tested and tried…until we become as committed as our Ukrainian counterparts…

An attack on Ukraine…is an attack on everyone who believes…lives…and defends the right to be free…live free…and exercise their freedom in the way they choose to govern themselves…

If Democracy is the way…stand up for it…preserve it…exercise it…and protect those who are righteously giving their lives for it! 

The people of Ukraine ARE living it…their unity is their weapon…

Let us take their lesson in example and use it to heal ourselves…while going to the aid of our brothers and sisters in need…

By any means necessary…

Their fight…

Is our fight…

Democracy everywhere…is under siege.

Their freedom…

Is our freedom…

Read between the lines…

We cannot wait until things are at their worst

Before we put forth our best…

Amend the Rules of War…

Create a resolution that will send immediate people power needed…

The 21st Century calls for 21st Century mandates….

The Past…will be our undoing if we do not lay it to rest by learning from it…while taking measures to ensure that history does not repeat itself….

It’s time to rewrite the pages…

Today…not tomorrow…

Ukraine cannot wait…

We cannot wait…

Tomorrow…

Is the Future…

What will it be?

We Dream the Dream…Let’s Make it Happen…For Everyone….

Today is the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday…

I want to reflect on an article I was sent back in 1999, when putting together a list of charities to benefit from a concert that was being prepared to move into the 21st Century…This was one of the charities…Oxfam America…

“Many believe blacks must participate in the structure of American capitalism in order to prosper as individuals and communities.  Ownership, the bedrock of American society and measure of success, makes citizens free to master their own destinies.  Ownership brings leverage in American economic life and, subsequently, social and political spheres.  Lack of ownership, many believe, has kept blacks and minorities in an inferior social position in which financial resources are squandered to maintain the success of already powerful whites.”

–Laura K. Warrell, Oxfam America Viewpoint, spring 1999, Cover Story, “Does Restitution for Black Farmers Equal Justice”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed and spoke upon equality for Black Americans economically, as a key factor in achieving racial equality, and spoke upon it in many of his speeches on the long road to establishing Civil Rights for Americans of African ancestry…decades before organizations like Oxfam took up the journey to solidify processes and progress in this still long, long road to racial equality…

Where are we in education…housing…jobs…equal pay…civil rights…freedom…the American Dream…Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream?

When you look at America today…do you see progress or a train running backwards down a hill… headed for certain destruction? Do you see hope for a brighter future? Or positive changes unraveling and being taken apart…taking a country back to savage beginnings it takes pride in clinging to?

How can we…honor the best of ourselves…by implementing that best into the fabric of a nation torn and tattered by division and despair? How can we ensure the promise of America, when days like today come…and remind us what living and living in America…and the world, is really all about?

Take today and remember…take today and what it really means to dream a dream of peace…unity…humanhood…community…liberty…freedom…and make it your reality to create a world that can continue to achieve and sustain the better part of humanity’s contributions in ensuring a future for generations…

I have a dream…

That we will wake up…create the dream…and live it….

Remembering The Unity of 9/11….

Every year for 20 years we remember the horrors and tragedy of September 11, 2001…

When terrorists desecrated U.S. soil and unleashed the unimaginable and the unthinkable…the cost of civilian and service men and women lives was staggering…and still continues in the aftermath due to exposures to the fallout and trauma of that day. It changed the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual landscape of our country…forever.

As a nation, we became our best at our worst…We harnessed a unity that extended to every corner of our wounded America…and we witnessed a strength in that connectivity that was impenetrable.

That “impenetrable connectivity” should always be remembered…and practiced at every turn… We need that unity now more than ever!

We must remember…for all of those we lost that day…their sacrifice must always be our fuel to come together for the good of all…They gave their lives…consciously and unconsciously, so America could continue to be…Free.

Remember that the next time someone breaks from that unity…and attempts to initiate actions that may result in the loss of freedom for another…will you “connect” or “disconnect?”

If those passengers on Flight 93 chose to disconnect, do you dare to think what magnitude of damage and loss and change to our history that would have occurred…had those terrorists succeeded in reaching their designated target? They sacrificed their lives for their belief in America…and their love for our country.

We must never forget the beautiful demonstration of unity…

We must never forget the sacrifices…

We must always remember and practice being our best…whatever “worse” arises…

9/11 will forever be our badge of courage to move forward the dreams and freedom of America…

Start today……

To Love…Is To Find.

To Love

Is to find…

For Love is pure…

It does not hide.

To bare one’s soul

Is to be alone…

For Honesty

Is a large pill to shallow…

To Be

Is to first exist…

How can we?

If we do not Love….

We must find love…it is our only salvation. If we continue to embrace what is shallow…materialistic and fleeting…we will not prevail and humanity will cease to be.

America…

It is crucial that we understand the importance of what this country should stand for…it is of high importance that we understand our connectivity and what it means to be guardians…shepherds…preservers…and respecters of life…in respecting life we respect the freedom of others…without impositions of our will…yet, this is a double-edged sword…because in respecting others we must be inclusive, open to all views…yet find the common ground of compromise…

If we understand what love is…and find the road to love…we will unite our country…as well as ourselves… Eventually…our world.

To Love…

Is to Find…

For Love is Pure…

It does not hide…

If you believe in Love…You won’t need to look far to find it…

Open your heart…..

Are We So Unlike Our Enemies?

Are We So Unlike Our Enemies?

Are we so unlike our enemies…or those we choose to judge?

Texas passed a restrictive abortion ban after the Supreme Court declined to step in and stop the law from taking women back ages in their rights to choose what happens within their own bodies…

The GOP is really “The Taliban” operating freely within America…picking and choosing what they feel is best for American citizens without considering Civil Rights…Civil Liberties…Human Rights…Freedom…and Democracy.

It goes without saying that Republicans have no respect or sovereignty to the Constitution of the United States. 

We have all stood by and bore witness to their treason and insurrectionist actions with impunity…

Are We So Unlike Our Enemies?

If we choose to blindly accept what the GOP has done in taking our country backwards in their ideologies of governing by restrictions and manipulations around democracy… limiting women’s rights to choose pretending to care about babies not yet born while murdering and lynching children of people of color…as well as taking the lives of people of color…along with their efforts to overturn Roe Vs. Wade in red states and restrict voting rights in order to boost their majority power to take our country back to the dark ages of human savagery, don’t we deserve to fall as Afghanistan…and other countries laid to waste because they believed in Democracy without stronger unification to protect it?

It is beyond hypocritical to defend life not yet born…when every day a person of color falls to discriminate loss of life–someone’s child—just because…and someone’s child falls victim to gun violence because little boys and little girls acting in the capacity of grownups in high places… want to have their “right to bear arms” regardless of the consequential and horrific loss of life that comes with uncontrolled access in the ability to obtain weapons…Yet they care about restricting a woman’s right to her own body…because they want to “protect” the unborn…When they can’t and refuse to protect the lives of all  American citizens by breaking…bending…and completely ignoring laws that are made to protect them.  Welcome to democracy in America!

While the awakening to equality has been a snail’s pace in recognition…we must remember the lives continually being lost in this never ending battle for “blind” equality for all…without the stigma of racism.

Are We So Unlike Our Enemies?!

Take a good, long look around America…Then take a good, long look around the world… Are we so different? Our ways are more refined and “educated”…Like Judas and Jesus…Judas was an “educated” man…

America will fall to a menagerie of greed and prejudices…and democracy will cease to be recognized, let alone respected…if we do not weed out “The Taliban” and domestic terrorism which is alive and well and functioning in our own country…here and now…from one day to the next…within a government which once stood for something…now perceived as a “paper tiger.”

Are we so unlike our enemies?

Time to prove that we are not…the enemy.

Time to show “true colors.”

Time to stand and protect…Freedom.

Without Freedom…

There is no Democracy…

Without Democracy….

There is no America.

We are just another…Enemy.

This July 4th 2021…

This July 4th, 2021…Celebrate you…

Celebrate that after 2020…and the months leading up to this day, we made it…and many didn’t due to the pandemic…indiscriminate assaults and the taking of lives…The Florida condo collapse…tornadoes…hurricanes…floods…extreme heat…droughts…joblessness…homelessness…politics….

For those events that we can do nothing about…let us bond together and give assistance and kindness and comfort….

For the events that we can do something about…Remember that our Freedom…Life…Liberties…and our Pursuit of Happiness is contingent upon our Independence…

Independence comes about because of you and your contributions to America…and the continuance of the freedoms promised to every American…

Celebrate you…Celebrate Independence…Celebrate Freedom…and don’t abandon the struggle and the war we are waging here in America…even today…to celebrate another July 4th…come 2022…

Freedom and Independence aren’t just words to be thrown around…

So be vigilant in your quest to retain them…

Happy Independence Day….

June In…June Out…

June In…

Brought many realizations of what still plagues humanity and how we must continually work on bringing about change in the direction of History and our relationships to other human beings….

The Tulsa Massacre happened one hundred years ago, in 1921…and brought to light numerous other massacres of Black communities in the past…Chicago 1919…Springfield 1908…East St. Louis 1917…Vicksburg 1874…Slocum 1910…Colfax 1873…Opelousas 1868…Thibadaux 1887…Elaine 1919…Clinton 1875…Rosewood 1923…St. Bernard Parish 1868…New Orleans 1866…Memphis 1866…Atlanta 1906…Detroit 1943…New York 1863…Washington DC 1919…Philadelphia 1985…Wilmington 1898…Charleston 2015…Eufaula 1874…Camila 1868…Ocoee 1920…and the Fort Pillow Massacre on April 12, 1864 by Confederate troops.

Being a “silent witness” is as damaging as committing the crimes… Ask yourself this question…If you were the recipient of an atrocity being committed and someone stood by and watched…or knew the perpetrator(s) or witnessed the acts of the perpetrator(s), would it be alright with you if they did nothing with this knowledge that could hold those accountable for their horrific actions?

The Past cannot and will not stay buried when injustices are committed and lives are wiped out and the consequences of taking those lives affects the lives of their generational families for the rest of their lives…robbing many of generational wealth and land…in businesses destroyed and land taken in these massacres…“Reparations” can never measure up to what was lost…however, Restitution must be in order in any and every form in accountability and righting the wrongs that continue into these moments in time… These are stains on the soul of this nation that can never be erased…sins that can only be forgiven by heartfelt and demonstrated Acts of Contrition… Telling Americans of African heritage to “get over it” is like asking Americans of Jewish heritage to “get over the Holocaust.” How can you ask someone to “get over” massacres of their family and loved ones? How can one ask someone to erase these horrors and traumas from their minds and person? How can anyone live in denial of atrocities that treat specific human beings as if they were less than the dirt beneath their feet? Let us not forget that “soil” is dirt…and it yields the food that nourishes and keeps all life on this planet…alive.

June In…brought in a realization that Juneteenth was celebrated by Ikea by presenting a celebratory meal of Fried Chicken, Watermelon, Mac N Cheese, Potato Salad, Collard Greens and Candied Yams…all stereotypical, perceived foods eaten by African American people…Entertaining ignorance instead of researching authenticity and the history of the occasion and the vast cuisine which extends itself across the spectrum of African heritage existing, but not limited to, the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and other countries around the globe… These mindsets continue to limit and marginalize the true expansion and influence of African ancestry and its contributions to American life.

June In…brought in the very stark realization that as a people, we are still in chaos over old issues that will continue to plague our society and the world…if we continue to walk in ignorance…and not in truth. Our disappointments and sins will continue to grow and follow us from century to century if we do not confront them and face them with a heart bent on rectification and alleviation of that which creates the injustices and inequalities still present and functioning throughout our nation…as a perceived “life blood” of preservation…when it is the very poison that may well consume and destroy the dream of America…

June Out…brings another month to build and rebuild upon the dream of America…To consciously put in the work….become a viable part of the Reconstruction of a nation that holds more promise in demonstrated change than hope…more love than hate…and more union than disunion and division.

June Out… brings July and Independence Day…

Our Independence should begin with the removal of the shackles we allow to bind our spirits and our abilities to herald in changes that will grant freedom from self-imposed prisons of self creation when we choose not to challenge archaic mindsets and constituents which work to keep the chains tightening around our necks…instead of accepting the changes which will serve and uplift us into becoming “The Land of the Free.”

Freedom isn’t elusive…

Independence…is Freedom.

“June out”…..

To Vaccine…or Not To Vaccine? That Is Not The Question…That Is A Choice…

To Vaccine…or Not To Vaccine? That Is Not The Question…That Is “A Choice.”

Has it really come down to this?!

A Federal judge ruled against more than 100 Houston hospital workers who stand to lose their jobs by termination…if they don’t get vaccinated.

The lawsuit the employees brought against the hospital said that the administrators requesting the vaccination mandate were in violation of the Nuremberg Code of 1947; comparing the vaccine demand to Nazi medical experimentation on concentration camp prisoners during World War II.

The lawsuit also stated that the hospital administrators were forcing its employees to be ‘guinea pigs’ as a condition for continued employment…

The ten points of the Nuremberg Code deal with human experimentation and the ethics involved in experimentation.

There is a fine line here…

The actual conception of the vaccine with human subjects and their consent and the ethics involved would be applicable use the Nuremberg Code in a lawsuit if violations occurred with the actual human experimentation testing protocol with the vaccine test subjects…

Using the Nuremberg Code outside of these measures is a fine line….

The real issue here is “freedom of choice” with the situation presented…

The choices reveal the consequences which we must be prepared to take.

The fact about taking any medication subjects its user or recipient to be a ‘guinea pig.’ However, the medication is taken in most cases without really giving consideration to this very real conclusion.  One does not know how one’s biological organism (their body) will react to any drug…that is why side effects are listed, and questions asked about allergies and reactions…even aspirin! Yet, people take their medications and vaccines, as a medical professional may prescribe…if it is going to render them better by eliminating the symptoms which trigger or cause the “dis-ease” within them.

It is again, a matter of choice on the individual’s part to indeed partake… Standing strong on principles and values are always subject to consequences.

“Choice” is called upon to deliver the consequences of our actions…choices made and accepted by our own making…not the making of someone…or something else.

In choosing not the take the vaccine in this instance of the Houston Methodist Hospital employees…They can choose to quit…and seek out employment elsewhere…or stay…and take the vaccine.  Let it be your decision and your choice…your consequence…not a dictation or demand, your choice.  However it plays out, inalienable rights and freedom are not synonymous…inalienable rights should be justifiable enough…yet they are not…Freedom is supposed to be guarantee in The Land of the Free…yet, it is only another word for nothing left to lose…

Our individual rights depend upon our individual choices…with like minds standing together to ensure those collective freedoms…and protecting them.

Because it is most likely that the employees at this hospital are “at will” employees, they are subjected to the hospital’s policies of “at will” employment.

If the employees did not sign contracts stating the conditions of their employment, inclusive of what the employee’s stipulations are regarding being vaccinated against viruses, bacterial infections or other illness, in order to keep their positions…they have an uphill battle in the works. 

Creating a condition to force people into vulnerable positions to make choices against their better judgment is an infringement upon their inalienable rights…an area that possesses numerous loopholes to challenge….

The challenging situations that the pandemic has produced have given way to behaviors that are archaic in mutual conclusions beneficial to everyone involved…

These “forcible” tactics will change much of the population’s mind about taking the vaccine…and it will lead to another surge…worse in some areas than before…

The vaccine would help if people can choose for themselves…this way will only allow the virus to morph into mutations which will be deadlier…stupidity is predictable on all levels…

It is most unfortunate that society is going backward…Freedom of choice…what happened?

Who let the Covid-19 fanatics loose to exercise methods that dictate the corralling of freedom of choice to take the vaccine…or not to take the vaccine?

Choices to protect oneself and others against becoming infected should be kept into place, such as masking and sanitizing, as a compromise to those who are on the fence about the vaccination…those who are set against the vaccination…and those who are slow in getting the vaccine.

Those who choose not to vaccinate may very well become infected…or not.. if they protect themselves masking and sanitizing until enough people are vaccinated to render the pandemic to a status of a “cold” or “flu” yearly routine occurrence…

Just remember that choices produce consequences…and the consequences will be the test of one’s choices…

To vaccine…or not to vaccine…your choice…your consequences…

Choose…

Either way…

Conditions on your freedom… is the consequence.

Let Freedom Ring…

We have differences of opinion…

We have our ideas of our lives and what works best for us…

Free-will was bestowed upon us through God’s Grace…Not through Man.

Yet, day in and day out, our free-will is being siphoned away from us by government entities and persons functioning under the misplaced belief that they know what is best for us…when in reality, it’s really what’s best for them. Much to our detriment, we elect most of these people through false claims and declarations they make to secure positions of power…and the people suffer.

Everyday in our daily course of living, someone is always infringing upon our rights to be…and our freedom…

Choices that are clearly individual…within our free-will and our choice to choose…are being involuntarily removed from our free-will…and our freedom to be shepherds of our own temples….The hypocrisy of “Right to Life” advocacy is the killing of people of color with such impunity…How can one dictate to another about the choices they make regarding their body and the right to life? Your judgments and conclusions may suit your life…yet they may not fit the lives of others in their life or circumstance…It is this self-righteousness that is leading to the decline of humanity. Infringing upon the rights….free-will and freedoms of others only leads to dissension and demise…

Condemning or condoning another person’s decisions is to play God…especially when their decisions are theirs to make…

Our accountability on the exercising of our free-will is not answerable to man…but to a higher source…especially when the choices we make are inclusive to ourselves…without infringing upon the lives of anyone outside of our circle.

For me…there is God…because I cannot have traveled my journey to this part of my life… without Supreme Presence…through the chaos created by Man….

Choices…that are clearly individual….within our free-will and our choice to choose…have become everybody’s business…someone else’s judgment…which usurps and halts our freedom…our right to be…our free-will.

Suddenly, voting rights around the country are being changed to disenfranchise specific voters at the cost of our democracy…if our democracy was strong, these orchestrated attempts to gain an edge in elections would not have been allowed to come into play.

What has happened to Freedom?

If freedom is so easy to take away or halt…we must ask the question…and the question is: “Have we ever had Freedom…or ever really been free…at all?”

Creating false beliefs to freedom have always been in practice and always been in play…right before our very eyes….and somehow…some way….we have allowed ourselves to be conned into believing…that Freedom Rings….

Home of the Brave…

Land of the Free…

Whose freedom?!

We are always being forced to comply with someone else’s ideas…theories…conclusions…conspiracies…

Lately, it is the belief that people have grown used to being supported by government stimulus and have no desire to go back into the workforce…Nothing could be further from the truth…yet all of a sudden, it is safe to go out without masks…if you’re vaccinated…People are being pressured into getting vaccinations by dangling freedoms in front of them like carrots…people who need the unemployment stimulus, are being forced to go back to work, even if they are not qualified…. or over qualified…lost their jobs which are never coming back…have child care or not…have children that are still out of school…have not overcome pandemic post traumatic stress and fears… Yet someone else’s misplaced beliefs and conclusions, have taken precedence over your freedom to decide when your life can once again find the “normal” to function and participate in the mainstream of living…without fear and deprivation.

Use your “Savior’s Staff” to eradicate Racism…Hatred…Prejudice…Discrimination…Selfishness….Greed…and all the other unpleasantries that are engaged in and practiced to tear apart humanity and destroy truth…and castrate love….

Can we let go of judgments…control and power long enough to…

Let Freedom Ring?

Time will surely tell…

America’s clock is ticking…..

A Time For Balance…

A Time For Balance…

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven…

Ecclesiastes 3 lays out in detail about every purpose having a season and a time.

Here is a summary…

A time to be born…

A time to die…

A time to plant…

A time to sow…

A time to kill…

A time to heal…

A time to break down…

A time to build up…

A time to weep…

A time to laugh…

A time to morn…

A time to dance…

A time to cast away stones…

A time to gather stones…

A time to embrace…

A time not to embrace…

A time to get…

A time to lose…

A time to keep…

A time to cast away…

A time to tear…

A time to mend…

A time to be silent…

A time to speak…

A time to love…

A time to hate…

A time for war…

A time for peace…

Now is the time for balance…

For all things that have been done…contrary to the order of life and environment…there will now be balance.

To continue with the lies and actions which continue to adversely affect lives…the perpetrators will know balance as a result of their transgressions…

To watch a man…murdered before our very eyes…and to use defenses such as “angry crowd interference” with an officer’s judgement… or drugs killed him… or any other ludicrous excuse in defense of the action which took George Floyd’s life…is strongly trying convince us that we did not see what we did in fact see…An officer of the law positioned with his knee firmly planted on a man of color’s neck…while he cried out that he could not breathe.  Maybe if George Floyd were allowed to live…eventually, perhaps drug use would have taken his life…instead of a knee firmly planted in his neck cutting off his ability to breathe.

Why don’t we ask for an example? Why don’t we try the same situation on someone…recreating the act itself, to position a person on top of a person…knee in neck…for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, and see if they can survive it, without any repercussion…or better yet, live to tell about it.

Become George Floyd…

Feel that knee in your neck…

Now is the time for balance…

Every day in America…we are confronted with standing up and being a country of defending liberty and justice for all… We can’t run away…hide our heads in the sand…or keep silent…

We cannot afford to fail the dream of America…

We cannot afford to sell America down the river…

We cannot afford to forfeit Freedom…

Our very souls depend on it…

A time for every purpose under heaven….

Now…..

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