Category: Life

5.30.2020 – Change America?

Change America?
go and register to vote …
That is change we need.

“A protest has purpose. When Dr. King was assassinated, we didn’t do this to our city,” Bottoms said in Atlanta. “If you want change in America, go and register to vote … That is the change we need in this country.”

“What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” an impassioned Bottoms said at a news conference. “This is chaos.“

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

After months of Covid 19 Press conferences and updates where information and news seems to be delivered by rote, the emotion and feeling of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was stunning.

Her “I can’t protect you out there” …

If this doesn’t ring a bell in your soul take your pulse to make sure you aren’t dead.

The Prophet Hosea wrote, The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, those who had rejoiced over its splendor, because it is taken from them into exile. (Hosea 10:5)

John Calvin wrote, “The Prophet teaches that the glorying by which hypocrites deceive themselves will NOT be permanent; for the Lord will surely lead them, as we shall see, to sudden and unexpected shame.”

Mayor Bottoms said, “I wear this each and every day, and I pray over my children each and every day. So what I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta.”

I can only echo her words.

SHOW UP AND VOTE.

We are better than this.

5.29.2020 – Still no web service

Still no web service
they can send man to the moon
but I can’t connect

Still no web service, day 2.

I screamed and holler at ATT but they own the bus.

And its the only bus that stops in my neighborhood.

Just have to wait.

And I am not good at that.

PS – Service restored on Saturday – Another ATT Tech unplugged my port connection as the first ATT Tech who set it up did not label it properly.

And so it goes.

5.27.2020 – our goal is to change

our goal is to change
not sure person having life
torn apart serves that

Black and white is so very black and white.

Here in Atlanta, there was a thought that Ponce de Leon Ave, the street that divided Atlanta into north and south sides, ought to be painted with double lines.

A white line and a black line to show that that was where the two Atlanta’s met.

It was a real line even without the paint.

My office is in a building on on a street named Monroe Drive.

It crosses Ponce de Leon and the street changes its name to Boulevard.

That was because back in the day, white people didn’t live on the same street as black people.

Six blocks down Boulevard from Ponce, then one block east, is the house were Martin Luther King, Jr. was born.

Recently in New York City’s Central Park, a woman who felt threatened by a man, called the police.

The woman was white.

The man was black.

The man commented, “She went racial. There are certain dark societal impulses that she, as a white woman facing in a conflict with a black man, that she thought she could marshal to her advantage.”

The incident sparked accusations of racism and led to the woman getting fired.

Once the racist card comes out, it is all black and white.

You are or you aren’t.

And if you are and its all over social media, it’s all over for you.

Much of this woman’s life is over as she knew it.

DESERVEDLY SO.

It is over in other ways.

Sadly in so many cases, any learning is also over.

Any possible teaching is over.

It was the man in this case who felt this sadness.

In an interview with The New York Times, it was the black man who showed empathy for the woman.

“It’s a little bit of a frenzy, and I am uncomfortable with that,” he said.

“If our goal is to change the underlying factors, I am not sure that this young woman having her life completely torn apart serves that goal.”

If our goal is to change the underlying factors.

If.

IF?

For me it is not a case of WWJD (What Would Jesus Do).

It is a case of WDJD (What DID Jesus Do).

So sad that the word, “if” is even in there.

5.26.2020 – United States could

United States could
break the heart of the world
the nation all trust

The United States must join the League of Nations, or it would break the heart of the world for she is the only nation that all feel is disinterested and all trust.

Woodrow Wilson as recorded by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1919.

There was time when the United States held a a place in this world.

There was a time when the United States was held in regard in this world.

There was a time when the world looked to the United States for leadership.

There was a time when the United States was seen, accepted as “last best hope of earth.”

There was a time when it was put forward that the United States could the break the heart of the world.

There was a time.