THE "WHITE PRIVILEGE" THING

Lately, many in the "woke" or "cancel culture" crowd are using "white privilege" as a negative term against white people. However, privilege as defined in the Oxford American Dictionary is a " 1. right, advantage, or immunity 2. a special benefit or honor."  The definition assigns no race or ethnic group to the rights, advantages, immunity, benefit or honor in it's official definition. However, the political left uses the word like the overused term "racist" to link white people with slavery or to scare, or slam the door on any reasoned discussion of racial differences.  

In my opinion, privilege is something people of all colors and ethnicities earn during their lives as responsible citizens in their work, military, community or church services. Privilege, unlike royalty, is something individuals acquire by using their hands or minds to earn a living, raise a family and comfortably enjoy their retirement years. America has millions of white, black, oriental, and Hispanic privileged people. Both native born and legal immigrants earn privileges by living lives full of meaningful and responsible activities.  

Those who believe or are lead to believe their lives are unprivileged should perhaps examine the lives of successful people of color.  Few were born into families of royalty, great wealth or privilege. Also, they might want to damn the devils and race pimps who preach the negative sermons of inequality and segregation. America remains the freest and richest major nation in the world and highly accomplished individuals of all races happen every day and earn the privileges of their efforts.  

Just as no living black person in Africa maintains any special privilege because their ancestors sold slaves, no living white person maintains any special privileges because their ancestors owned slaves many decades ago. 

I believe every human alive today could trace their ancestry to a long ago time when their ancestors were treated inhumanely as serfs, slaves, caste members, indentured servants, chattel, captives, or forced laborers. Every tribe, clan or nation of people in history has suffered past injustices because of their religions, social status, skin color or economic situation. Those who earn privileges in life most often strive for a better world and endeavor not to repeat a history of bad old days. 

By a long shot and centuries, American white people didn't invent slavery. Many of those who composed the US Constitution knew it was an evil practice and a horrific Civil War officially ended slavery. No individual or nation can claim a past without skeletons, but can only strive to do better in the future. Revising history, tearing down monuments and allowing reparations won't change history and may lead to future errors. 

I'm proud of the privileges I've earned over the last seventy five years and refuse to be scared by leftists improperly twisting words to fit their narrow agendas. 

    

GOODBYE MASKS - HELLO SMILES

 Soon, as we all get our vaccines, we can trash the ugly masks and enjoy the smiles of our family, friends, and fellow shoppers. 

For nearly a year our government mandated the mask thing, social distancing and home confinement. Trump's "Warp Speed" collaboration of government agencies and medical companies developed a remedy in record time and President Biden will surely get the job of vaccinations finished soon.

During the scary times of 2020 and early 2021, fear and uncertainty controlled our lives. While some local and national politicians chose to make it a political weapon, too many people died and suffered isolation from their elderly loved ones. Fixing blame on where the virus originated and which political leaders and bureaucrat scientists bungled the crisis will be left to future historians. However, surviving folks can now appreciate the important realization that the damn pandemic is finally ending. 

We all lost a year of companionship, education, sports, travel, jobs and entertainment, but as the Spring of 2021 deepens to Summer and Fall we may be able to "party " again like it's 2019 !

Rejoice America, as we unmask and again enjoy the beauty all the wonderful and beautiful smiles.  

REMEMBERING MY MOM

Remembering my mother - Catherine Lee Williams Joyner.

She was a quiet, gentle and lovable lady born in Portsmouth Virginia. At an early age, she gained the nickname "Kitty" because of her fondness for cats. Stray, abandoned or adopted, she was a friend to all  felines. Most of all, mom loved her large family and circle of friends. Her kindness and generosity for young and old members of the family lasted all her ninety plus years and remains sweet remembrances and a sterling example for many. 

In 1941 after less than two weeks of marriage her new husband went off to war in the Pacific. When the Philippines fell, he would be classified as missing in action, but my mother never lost hope during the terrible three years his status was unknown. She prayed and trusted he would return and he did. Mom even joined the Women's Army Corps during his absence. When her beloved Dinky (Charles Robert) returned, she showered him with love and care as he healed from the physical and emotional traumas of war. Their love affair lasted over sixty years. Marie and I were mother's contribution to the baby boom generation and we joined dad as the most important people of her universe.   

She was a bona fide quiet heroine of the greatest generation. Most of all she was my wonderful mom. I miss and think of her every day.  

BIDEN'S TREACHERY

 

How much longer will Congress and Americans allow Biden and his far left handlers to use the Chinese Virus as an excuse to limit our Constitutional rights  ?

For purposes of furthering socialism, Biden and his puppet masters are reaching back to the bad old days of LBJ's War on Poverty. The wasted trillions of taxpayer funding didn't end poverty in the 60's and it won't end poverty now.  The federal government continues to believe poverty ends with huge government handouts. Being poor is actually the result of poor education, poor parenting and a "victim" mentality preached to poor people by generations of race profiteers. Democrats use federal money as eye candy to secure votes from uninformed masses and those unable or unwilling to think and are OK to become modern slaves to the federal government.

Biden's gloom and doom speech of March 11th, re enforces the false belief that big federal government spending can provide the mother's milk and solution to all our economic and social ills. Aided by the flip flopping overpaid medical Czar Fauci and WHO, we are being told to limit the number of our July 4th celebrants and how many more years masks and "social" distancing will be required. Not surprisingly, Biden used the virus fear to unseat Trump and will continue this strategy to trample our rights and ability to make personal choices. FDR was spot on when he said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".

Federal subsidized housing, healthcare, free cheese, food stamps and relief checks in addition to  billions to bail out poorly run democrat states will do nothing to motivate business restarts, new business starts and people getting back into the work force. The prospect of an increased minimum wage is a shiny piece of fools gold which will increase unemployment, speed inflation and do nothing to help young people build meaningful careers as skilled tradesmen or professionals. 

Further, HR 1 and other democrat/socialists congressional bills seek to dilute the voting rights of legal citizens by granting votes and multiple votes to anyone and every one at anytime anywhere. Citizens currently need a pictured ID for a drivers permit, library card and as a legal means for many financial transactions. Exactly how many voting citizens lack ID cards anyway ? 

Additionally,  Biden and Company feel opening our southern borders to illegal aliens, with or without vaccines, is a great idea. If Biden really cared about COVID free Americans he would require all illegal aliens get tested and inoculated against the Chinese Flu. The costs to American taxpayers will increase and services to legal citizens will diminish as the southern floodgates remain open. The democrat party is simply buying votes and will use illegal immigrants to get votes.

Sadly, Biden and his ilk are winning the day because too many of us have become complacent and happy to trade our personal and economic freedoms for another "welfare" check. Who the hell is pleased that the Biden Bunch has draped our nation's capitol in barbed wire and armed troops over a relatively small disturbance January 6th when compared with the sustained horrors we witnessed in Minneapolis, Seattle, NYC, Portland and Chicago over most of 2020. How many relief checks and pork filled spending bills will be realized by the Biden administration to placate unions and the woke cancel culture crowd ? 

If recalls, sustained voter outcries and petitions don't happen soon and the round of 2022/ 2024 elections don't change our political landscape and prospects, America will succumb to China as the world's economic and military leader. The grand idea of "Making and Keeping America Great " will die as citizens surrender their freedom and republic to a treachery energized by the far left and voiced by a very weak puppet President Biden.