Month: September 2020

Race war folly

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The vigilantes who will take up arms to keep Black and Brown people down may surprise us. Their number may not be as high as we may be led to believe. What will not surprise us is the fact that we cl some of them friends today. Most bigots are cowards, small minded bullies and brats, young and old, literate and illiterate, from every religion too. A war between ethnic groups is a foolish idea because ethnicity is a known weak link in the chain of human communities that thrive.

The contenders for “might is right” may include

  • Legislative representatives
  • Pastors of any ethnicity
  • Culturally superior neighbours
  • Jealous colleagues at work and play
  • Siblings and family members

The Hitlers and Milosevics of the 21st century will not have Black people as victims of their virulent campaign. The American dream, the Zionist paradise, the holy Islamic republics, and the proud nationalists of Asia have to find another route. People are not giving up their lives for these jaded fantasies. These conflict-torn communities are not thriving, as long as one person is denied due process

Stop playing games with people’s lives

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When a business fails the chances are that the owner survives.  We may miss the service but missing a service during a deadly pandemic is small compared to the loss of a child or family member.   It is almost without humanity that politicians talk about opening for business.   The world is not a shop; it is a home.  Let’s not let the opening of schools be another oops.  It would be nice if kids came back from the dead.  The science of virus spread is not a mystery and neither is the unrestrained wrath of families who keep losing members.

Cash vs Fool’s Gold

Extreme caution, cold calculations, and courageous actions are not the stuff of press releases or public briefings.  Those jurisdictions where coronavirus keeps coming back can be right now tagged for protest and denunciation.  There are morons handling the messaging of covid-19 management.   Thank God, it is not the politicians who decode the data or shape what citizens need to do.  We are seeing, for now, a readiness to spend unlimited amounts from the public purse,  with the stated goal of helping Canadians survive and keep essential businesses alive and safe.  There are people threatening to unseat the common safety and knowledge, parading a fool’s gold love of freedom as preferable to a common experience.  We are going to miss a lot of meaningful experiences that one foolishly seek to recapture and the loss of life is bound to increase.

The right to live in my 2 metre personal space will not be abrogated by people who want to believe that that virus will simply vanish like a miracle or by people who want to keep us living in fear and ignorance.  Among them, we will find , businessmen, politicians, pastors, and many average Joes.

The disowning the tracks

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George Washington and Sir John A. Macdonald are the founding fathers we seem to want to put in museums.  The thought drives me to put Adam and Eve on the chopping block. Our ancestors deserve a sensitive place in our memories as surely as our parents do. The alternative is to embrace the curse.

How much of old and new?

The generational groove

He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”

Malachi 4:6