This article was inspired by an African American female, who shared this story on Facebook.
"This weekend while in Winston Salem... my daughter, her friend and I stayed over night at a hotel where we had the continental breakfast the next morning. At that time we were the only 3 blacks in the room, we got our food and sat down at a table next to a woman and her daughter's table. We began to eat when we heard the mom tell her daughter, 'stop staring at them, they have a right to be here just like you'. We looked over at them, the mother smiled and they got up and left. I didn't really know how to feel or what to say to my daughter and her friend other than WOW!"
It would not be fair to blame Donald Trump for the actions of others. However, his ultra-conservative stance, his being supported by the KKK, Neo-Nazi Groups, Skinheads and the like, has emboldened pockets of Caucasian Americans to say and do things they normally would not do or say.
Hate is taught, it is a learned behavior, that is why the little girl was staring, based on what she has been taught. The apple rarely falls far from the tree.
I'm a supervisor for a fortune 500 company and work virtual office. About 2 months ago, for the first time in my adult life, a customer called me the "N-word." And he didn't stop at calling me a n*gg*r, he called me a "stupid n*gg*r," primarily because he was not giving proper verification info, which is why the call was transferred to me. My response was the same as the lady who posted her story on Facebook.... "WOW!" And I can tell you why she said WOW, the same reason why I could only utter the word, WOW! Initially you're in a mild state of shock and that is the only word that comes to mind. It's shocking because you're thinking you're in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Your immediate thought process is, "wait a minute, am I dreaming?" Is this not 2017, or is it 1965?
Another recent occurrence, a customer who chatted-in, requested to speak with a "white supervisor." The 1st level customer service representative cold-transferred the chat to me so the customer assumed he was chatting with a "white supervisor." I won't even repeat what the guy typed. When he finished, I simply mentioned to him that "I am African American" and disconnected the chat.
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Racial intolerance and racial hatred are at an all-time high in the post-antebellum world. In order to curb the animosity toward African Americans and other minorities, it's not going to be a government-inspired resolution, it has to come from Caucasian Americans; those who find racial hatred as appalling as we do.
In other words, the resolution lies in grass-roots America. Most of your liberal-minded Caucasian friends and co-workers have associates, friends and family members who live on a day to day basis under the archaic notion and absurd mindset that the White Race is the superior race. Often their words and actions clearly indicate such nonsense as being a strong part of their character and personality.
As an upstanding citizen, it's your responsibility to put these idiots in check! You must let these people know that their outlandish, disrespectful rhetoric, will not be tolerated. If the behavior continues, as a member of logical-minded-White-America (just as logical-minded-Black-America is obligated to do with rogue members of the African American race), you must sever ties with such individuals. If you don't, as Dr. King so eloquently stated, "A time comes when silence is betrayal."
Source: "When Silence is Betrayal"
If you're dealing with truth, "you don’t have to know who turned on a light in a darkened room to make use of that light."
The way you’ll know it’s the truth is that it will make sense logically, intellectually, and emotionally, which is not too often the case given the versions or pseudo facsimiles of the truth, bandied about in millennia gone by. Once you discover truth, you will feel liberated, empowered, cogent, joyful, loving, and any confusion will be banished.
"There’s no trace of a God in the afterlife as depicted by nearly every religion. Which is really great news when you consider how most religions depict God. Of course there is a God, just not like the one taught by the blind who lead the blind."
"God is the sum of all that is—every voice, every heartbeat, every man, woman, and child, every animal, every insect, every boulder, planet, and mote of dust, including sentient beings far removed from time and space."
The truth is who and what we are. The truth is neither abstract nor fleeting. "We are 'it' come alive."
The truth is objective; the truth is real and uncomplicated. "And while there may be an infinite number of roads to Rome, none of them changes Rome."
"We know the truth when we meet it. It’s just that having taken the plunge into “life” ourselves in this early stage of our civilization’s spiritual development, we don’t usually grant ourselves permission to go to places in thought that we can’t touch , taste, see, hear, or feel. Very caveman, yet very predictable for where we are in our evolutionary arc."
These are primitive times, and given that times are defined by the people who occupy them, we are primitive people. Not by chance, though, but by design. We knew it would be like this. We chose to show up early in humanity’s development, perhaps as part of the price for getting to show up later as masters, or because the possibilities that exist today won’t exist in the same way later on.
"Doesn’t really matter now; we’re here. We are mere babes in the jungles of time and space, and therefore understandably scared by the world around us, feeling vulnerable, relying almost exclusively on our physical senses to label, define, and make progress."
Nothing frees you like the truth, and nothing holds you back more than not knowing it.
Knowledge is power; it heals what hurts, fills what’s empty, clears what’s confused, lightens what’s heavy, brings friends together, turns dust to gold, and raises the sun. A man or a woman tuned in and turned on to truth becomes an unstoppable force.
We ourselves are permeated by a benign intelligence. Given the overwhelming evidence from our own lives so far, we can, to a significant and profound degree, direct this benign intelligence at will.
"I found early on in my quest for answers— and this has no doubt occurred in your life—that the longer I dwelled on a question, the more inevitably I received its answer, whether conventionally in a book that 'coincidentally' crossed my path or through a mysterious sort of osmosis."
That these words have found you is exactly what I mean. But given the hot topics I touch upon herein, that you are no doubt ready to examine from angles never before considered, I’d like to caution that any passage, phrase, or chapter of this book read without the context offered by the entire book, may be disturbing or even misleading.
The author - Mike Dooley - strongly advises that you either read his book, cover to cover, or simply leave it untouched, lying around your home until an avid-reader-friend finally “stumbles” upon it, reads it through, and reports his or her complete findings to you.
"Finally, in fairness to the dead, the chapters surely do not speak for them all. Among the dearly departed, some are certainly more concerned with plotting a hopeless revenge, evading a nonexistent Lucifer, or pleading with a handsome likeness of their favorite prophet, than caring about the nature of reality, of which they may know very little.
They’ll eventually get on board as surely as day follows night, but in the meantime, death doesn’t bring automatic enlightenment. It’s a regrouping phase for the former living to reconvene, share, laugh, cry, self-assess, strategize, and prepare for what’s next.
"The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU," by Mike Dooley, is from those who have transitioned, who are "in the know" and aware, simply by virtue of experience. The "old souls" who would like to reach those who want to be reached. They want to reach those who are ready to learn life’s truths so they can far more happily get on with living.
