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20 observations to “in mourning”

1. Ra Maat says:

   2009, September 11 at 7:25 pm   (Quote me)

   I guess the bottom line here is that we all have information and can learn more as we grow. Hopefully we can grow together. We just have to be careful as to ask what someone else is doing or accusing them of not doing anything because the Spook Who Sat By The Door was not seen and may never be seen but they might be the one to free all our asses. We will be free and never know who freed us.

   The first sign of knowledge is to know that we know nothing yet we know all that there is. If we eat at McDonald’s then that is a habit we can try and stop others from doing because it poisons us. The poison is so deep within some that they will fight and actually find a reason why it is ok to eat there. Not to mention the funding of the enemies system. But over all dialogue is good. We know we love each other even if we disagree. I just hope when the ship leaves people will know it is boarding and be on time and not online at McDonald’s. Knowing who the Phantom is and the great wizard is gives you power. Those that never saw him believed the hype and never got home. I want to go home. Home to my right mind because i am already home on this planet. (clicking my heels 3 times… There’s no place like home…. There’s no place like home…. There’s no place like home.) It Feels So Good To Feel The Sun :-)

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2. SwitchBlade says:

   2009, September 11 at 5:47 pm   (Quote me)

   I love public conversations for the simple fact that multiple points of views can be seen. Today is simply another day in which views were expressed and responses were given.

   Even those of like minds can have differences of opinions because most try to avoid the cloned mentality of constantly agreeing.

   I attempt to avoid reverting back to my youth of shutting others thoughts down. I find that once that has happened, there is no chance of at least reaching some common ground. A main objective of mine has always been to say my peace and give the floor to others to do the same.

   Respect is a word most often used, but rarely acted upon. The question of “What are you doing?” has been placed on the table. I always check myself before I check others. Even after I can give a coherent response and show evidence of my own deeds I would still be hesitant to assume anyone else’s position in a situation. Like thenothing wrote in another article, spring cleaning is needed from time to time and not only of material things. I check my attitude and actions on a constant basis and do the deeds I do to help those who seek help. It is not, nor will it ever be my duty to force my thoughts or actions on anyone else. I will never be in front of a media crew performing the tasks that I do to better myself and those around me, but I do them none-the-less.

   Humans have become very self-center inhabitants of this planet and the majority refuses to acknowledge this fact because they may fear feeling less than perfect or not a true embodiment of their creator – whoever it may be. We (I said we because I include myself in most statements I make) have made it a bad habit to believe that we only are affected if tragedy hits us personally. When one race is destroyed, it has a trickledown effect and we have already seen this come to fruition and it will continue until we accept our mistakes and perform actions to change them going forward.

   With my 2 cents…

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3. jade says:

   2009, September 11 at 4:53 pm   (Quote me)

   capers, public blog. expect public comments. you are called on your attack and you get angry. very typical.

   as for me, i’ve been losing people for the last 5,000 years to white supremacy. so i don’t just look at my own life and personal lose. i lost a 16 year old sister, so done with the “i deserve respect cause i lost someone” business. i will never look at my personal loss as more important than my 5,000 years of loss, which far outweigh my personal emotions.

   what am i doing? let’s see. i am starting with self, as everyone should.

   1. i have changed my diet. no soda, no artificial sugars, no salt, no hormone filled meats, no packaged goods filled with high fructose corn syrup, MSG and aspartame. no candy, no cakes, no garbage. no fast food which contains all sorts of poisons and additives that cause food addiction.

   2. i don’t watch tv, hence i am not subjected to the lies of media that so many succumb to daily. i am not victim to the propaganda put forth by the media moguls. as wilson brian key points out in age of manipulation, those who are most easily fooled, are those who think themselves the smartest.

   3. i have about 4,000 books in my home, so i read in every genre, including history, science, medicine, technology, anthropology, etc., etc., etc. I do not read fluff, such as ghetto fiction and pimp daddy novels that provide no insight into what the oppressor is doing to our bodies and minds, particularly to the minds of those who they’ve trained to defend their agenda, and pit us against each other.

   4. i am minimizing my life so that i get rid of the nonsense this culture of things has produced. things such as too much clothes and make-up and all other physical nonesense we over do ourselves with because we think in the end it will matter. i have gotten rid of all household items that are there to just look at, and serve no functional purpose beyond showing off to friends. i’m tired of acting like a trained puppy who consumes at their will.

   5. if a person on the street asks for a dollar, i take them into a food joint and buy them food. have taken a woman and her 4 children grocery shopping one day and purchased $100 worth of food for her, then dropped her off at her shelter.

   6. i learn everything i can about my BLACK history so i do not find myself ignorant and defending the culture of my destroyer…those same people who want us to believe that “we are the world” as they continue to bomb every country where brown people exist. i read the voice of my ancestors, not of white anthropologists with an agenda. i look at information from the rabbit hole, not the talking heads who have historically lied to us throughout our entire existence.

   i could go on. but i don’t want to flood this blog with the things i am doing.

   Oh wait, as for the collective, I host sessions as often as possible with like minded folks. we talk about what is going on and solutions. we don’t just hop on blogs and talk about folks. we go in only when we must. otherwise, we spend our time getting healthy, minimizing and learning.

   we don’t waste time writing congressman who aren’t going to do anything. we learn to do for self. we plant and grow our own stuff. our own food…so we don’t have to depend on big brother.

   i’ve recently planted an apple tree and will plant a few more fruit trees soon. i am about village and helping MY black people through reciprocity.

   But again, i don’t want to clog up the blog with what i am doing…given that all i’ve read on this blog is folk “complaining” about other folks observations, rather than pointing out what they do…and rather than crying over their own personal loss.

   I do what I do for my millions of ancestors, not just for my sister who died. And the needs of the millions far outweigh anything any of us can even begin to imagine.

   so please, spare me. you insult folks’ intelligence, and when i make one simple comment about you doing it, you get all flustered and wanna do exactly what the white man taught you, go at your brothers and sisters, rather than considering that you just…might…be…a little bit over board.

   humble is always the best route, no matter what we believe.

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4. jade says:

   2009, September 11 at 4:32 pm   (Quote me)

   yes, it does seem that the point was missed and the post is being taken personally.

   funny how folks are passionate when they have lost someone, but that same passion is no louder than an ant’s sneeze when no one they know is lost.

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5. SwitchBlade says:

   2009, September 11 at 3:26 pm   (Quote me)

   I think what has happened here is the loss of opened ears. I have read the thread and it is going in the same direction that many discussions (both online and off-line) go. The focus has been removed from the heart of the story to an individual issue. That was not what the writer was trying to state. They ended on the note that they are ready to make a change that suits them – no one else. To have an opinion be turned into personal warfare is defeating the purpose of opened discussion.

   If we are to change anything in this world we must take a look at how we react to situations and if we are reacting personally or logically.

   With my 2 cents…

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6. jade says:

   2009, September 11 at 3:18 pm   (Quote me)

   Maybe I missed something, but who was the first one to attack someone’s intelligence here? By saying a person is “complaining,” presuposses that they do not know the difference between a complaint and a valid observation. Now THAT is an insult to intelligence. Also, to call someone a complainer, is name calling. So I find it interesting that when thenothing responds with the same thing received from Capers, now the accuser is crying name calling and “complaining” about intelligence being underminded. thenothing attacked the establishment and those who buy the nonsense of the establishment, not any individual person by name.

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   Charlette Capers Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pm   (Quote me)

   hello Jade. you did miss something. your business. go find it.

   how did that feel – ignorance meets ignorance.

   now, the article comes across as complaining. it’s my opinion. how dare the artist beat the viewer after he displays his art and says he “welcomes” the opinion of the viewer.
   If you cant take the heat, get the hell out the kitchen.

   We don’t need a commentator here. Please add to the discussion. don’t hinder it. I lost people today, so it’ not about corporations. tell that to the mother who lost a child. to her, this day is more important than any other day in the history of her existence. she doesn’t want to hear about phantom menaces, or columbus.

   now observe that. it’s no need to get nasty as i was saying to the brothers. I said the ARTICLE was a complaint – he & Maat said i was lost, confused, etc.speaking to personal nature.

   So, now you will respond saying “you are lost” or whatever else, and the problems we face still continue. i challenge you to rise above it.

   list what U are doing to help someone else. and i don’t mean talking or blogging. i would love to support anything positive.

   love you – respect.

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7. Charlette Capers says:

   2009, September 11 at 11:48 am   (Quote me)

   I lost people I knew on that day. No man’s tragedy is greater than another. It’s easy to be cynical and judgmental when it doesn’t affect you. People live and die – some natural, some by murder – in ages past, in this age and in ages to come.

   Let us mourn those souls as we wish without condemnation, guilt, reprise or judgement. “thenothing” needs to fall back on this one. Everything isn’t about race or corporations. This is about another tragedy.

   Yes, there are those that seek only to profit or gain fame or exposure by the event, playing on people’s compassion. The article and writer above is no different.

   If writer was truly as involved as his last sentence suggests, he would not compare one tragedy against the other to cause controversy. He would be holding his own memorials for the souls he is mourning for. He fits right in the mold of what John McCain called “a nation of complainers”.

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   Ra Maat Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 12:07 pm   (Quote me)

   I think it is funny how we always assume someone is complaining and not doing anything. Just because we don’t see what the person is doing we can’t say they are just complaining. Also we look at things as complaints that often serve more as a teaching and sharing of information. If nothing less a wake up call for people that are blinded by the great wizards tricks to see what is real. As people are mourning the victims of 9/11 they are behind the doors right now making laws on healthcare. Ringing some damn bells has nothing to do with your life no

   We all lost someone. A good friend of mine lost her baby due to the evil acts of 9/11 caused by the same devils that are ringing the bells. Those bells are rang to drown out their own laughter of how ignorant they have made most of the people.

   I ring a bell everyday for my stolen, raped, castrated and hung ancestors. Yet not many are hearing my bells yet does that mean i do not ring them?

   I think people see complaints because they don’t understand the true hidden agenda. These are not complaints to me, they are the cries of wisdom trying to heal the deaf, dumb and blind. So i say complain away and those that hear it they will survive. Those that don’t i will ring a bell for them as well n my own. I am not hearing the Devils bells!

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   Charlette Capers Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm   (Quote me)

   You are using sensationalism to get some shine. This is no better than the tactics of the corporations or the media. The “complaining” does nothing. And yes, this article is complaining. Get up off your ass and DO something. Here is an equation for you: your complaining x corporate greed whore-mongering = nothing. It’s a wash.

   You wanna help? stop ringing bells and DO something for the people that are alive now – in the present. and yes that includes european, african, asian, polynesian, etc. All these races have experienced death at the hands of colonialism. Let us mourn how we want. I’ll listen to the bell toll, have a moment of silence and then I’ll get up off my ass and go out and actually practice what I believe.

   You are quick to number the African bones in the sea – what about the Tibitian bones scattered over mountains? Are they any less? Open your mind and be knowledgeable about world history – not just African. It is the only way to have real progress. The true hidden agenda is to have people turned against each other instead of learning about each other.

   You don’t have the masses to follow you – so what? Teach LOVE to those that will listen, even if it is only one person. The “real truth” is we need to teach each other to love each other. You can’t hate on that. There is nothing misguided about that simple fact.

   I love you – and i disagree – respectfully of course. Even Malcolm X opened his eyes and saw the world for what is was. Stop worrying about phantoms and conspiracy theories that you can’t change or name. reach those you can and teach them without hate malice or fear.THAT is progress!

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   Ra Maat Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 1:36 pm   (Quote me)

   Again Capers has not read or understood the issue i feel. I said that it is insane to think that someone is not doing anything if you see it as a complaint. How do you know that someone is not moving or making changes just because you don’t see it? Maybe you don’t see it because you are blind from the real truth. Like Flavor Flav said on a PE record, “You’re blind baby, blind from the facts!” (Boy i hate having to use FF as a reference now – LOL) World History? What is world history? If you understood the facts you would see that Africans are everywhere and always were! There is no World History with out the Black man!

   I agree with the Nothing, you are lost in the woods with no sign of an exit. I fear anyone carrying a map because that was probably made by the same Aliens that created this mess so we become dogs chasing our tails. And you know what George Clinton says in Atomic Dog: “A dog that chases his tail will be dizzy!” You like others become lost with your own desires to be right no matter what logic is given to you.

   We’ve become a people that fight reason and logic and believe in what the devil has told us. We read their books, eat their food, take their medicines then wonder why we are confused. We think that what we read about “World History” is correct. They continue to lie to us yet we continue to use them as the foundation for all logic and truth. Isn’t that what Amos Wilson talked about?

   Those same tibetian bones are connected to the 30 million bones at the bottom of the Atlantic and the bones of the untold millions of Native Africans that were slaughtered when columbus arrived and called them Indians. Yet, they want us to call them by those names and not by their original African names to confuse us as if they were different people.

   Like Pittershawn said, Why does this day outweigh any other day of outrage? Are they ringing bells for when the first ship landed here and the slaughter of Africans on this soil started again?

   I know i’ve done dozens of things to help the cause and still do. I can only hope that you did also but i can’t say for sure so i will never tell you to do something if i don’t know that you have not.

   I fear that my brothers and sisters won’t wake up from the poppy Fields. I hate the devils that created this mess. I love to see us rise and restore Maat to this Planet which is what they fear.

   

   Charlette Capers Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 2:39 pm   (Quote me)

   Please read my reply to “the nothing”. If am am lost, so are you. you jump on the “bandwagon” to discredit my intelligence just because our views differ. This is the oldest trick in the book created by your phantom “wizards” and you fell into the trap. I made a comment about the view of the article, not the person. The first lesson you need to learn is to respect views and opinions that are different from yours. Any true teacher know this. So are we the jews and palestinians? destined to fight forever because instead of respecting my view you make it personal. sign of weakness. u can do better, i know u can. Try again.
   my knowledge of people and history just doesn’t come from reading, but interacting with different people from all cultures. I was never a student of establishment thinking or learning.Nor do i hide behind “black power” rhetoric. Yes all life came from Africa when the world was one mass, one body. everything evolves and grows and moves. let us do the same.
   shame on the man who thinks he knows everything, for he will be taught that he actually knows nothing. Your brand of logic is no more superior than anyone else’s. i don’t need a name to understand my purpose, african or otherwise. i know who i am. Do not be so arrogant as to think you know my desires. Ask me. dialogue with me. don’t be mad because i have an opinion and a belief. respect it as i do yours.
   let focus on the points that we agree on..corporations are greedy, the media sucks and we need to teach love and mutual respect of each other. Lead by example.
   love always…

   

   jorgedepollo Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 1:01 pm   (Quote me)

   Not only do the bells that are being tolled drown out the laughter of the establishment, they drown out the “conspiracy theorists.” We all know that conspiracy theorists are those who question what is happening. Anyone not in the mindset chosen by the president and those he answers to must be made to look crazy to all sheep.

   Sheep get startled easily if they are spooked. Plus they need the sound of a horn (in this case bell) to be herded. I’ll be listening to my own sounds and thoughts to get me through the herd.

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   thenothing Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm   (Quote me)

   hey ms. capers. i am never one to be cynical, but then again anyone who questions the norm is considered “strange” so i can live with that. the sad thing is that this world is in a mode where the group agenda is never the same as the individual. in order for the group to carry forward with what they need to do, they must make it worth the time of the individual. that is what 9/11 is to me. it’s merely a day. a day on which something bad happen but a day none-the-less. if we truly were to mourn deaths of those who have passed every day would be used to take moments of silences; but alas that is not how we have been trained. we are now trained that every “corporate sponsored tragedy” needs a memorial and a moment of silence.

   i mourn those that i have lost in my own way. that is what folks seem to have forgotten. when we truly care about the individual people we have lost, then we give them the respect to acknowledge their time with us. we do not regard them in mass productions of tears and bell ringing. for you to see this article as one attempting to gain anything but awareness proves my point that zombies are amongst us.
   sit down and truly think of the days that we are told are more special than any other, and for us to stand still and mourn as collective. think hard. why do these days outweigh others? because we have been told that they do. regardless of your heart-felt thoughts on those you have lost, the fact remains the same. i never said i was involved with this farce of a memorial. did you truly hear me? i doubt that. for if you did, you would never have seen a complaint but an acknowledgment of what is happening around us and the solution i have chosen for myself. to take anything that john mccain has to say and use to defend your arguments leaves me with a smile on my face for you are so lost in the woods of confusion that you forgot where the exit is. maybe you should have rethought the breadcrumbs solution of hansel and gretel or better yet, have brought a map.

   i, personally, am tired of mourning for what the “powers-that-be” deem is appropriate. if i were to think of a collective to mourn, brown people have had the greatest loss of everything from emotional thoughts to physical being. to this day we are under a shackled mentality that we must protect what they find worth protecting. to hell with you or what you have truly lost as an individual is the theme that pays in this world.

   my piece had nothing to do with the true victims of 9/11. i never condemned them for they were not in my thoughts. why were they not in my thoughts? because i have learned to separate the true mournings of the victims’ families and friends who knew them from the faux mourning that is being played out in the media and by the people who orchestrated everything. if you’d like to continue to strap your fond memories of those you loved to a day that means very little to a nation that cannot even be honest with you about what happened on that day; then i am far from being the one to stop you. do what you need to do.

   as for myself, i will continue to feel the way i do until things totally change. will i be here to see the change? perhaps not – and then in return perhaps my feelings will remain intact.

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   Charlette Capers Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 1:21 pm   (Quote me)

   “did you truly hear me? i doubt that. for if you did, you would never have seen a complaint but an acknowledgment of what is happening around us and the solution i have chosen for myself. to take anything that john mccain has to say and use to defend your arguments leaves me with a smile on my face for you are so lost in the woods of confusion that you forgot where the exit is. maybe you should have rethought the breadcrumbs solution of hansel and gretel or better yet, have brought a map.”

   yes..i heard you, but your message got lost in your rhetoric. you came across as complaining – this is my opinion and I am welcome to it. never did i belittle your intelligence (as you r trying to do to me). I believe this is a nation of complainers – McCain said it right. Does that mean I “follow” him or am some type of doppleganger? Hell no. I live here just like you do – and I experience what you experience. I am no more lost than you. The fact that you can’t HEAR my opinion without resorting to name-calling proves who is really lost. bread crumbs..really?
   please read my last post. Just because we disagree doesn’t make either of us stupid or lost. to use your Hansel and Gretel analogy, we R both children lost in this forest. so question.. are we working together to get out, or are we arguing in the middle of the forest going nowhere?
   i love u – respect.

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   thenothing Reply:
   September 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm   (Quote me)

   i’ve re-read my article and while doing so wondered why did i get the type of reaction from you that i got. i have come to the same conclusion as i did the original time i responded to you. you believe that you have been disrespected in my response and i will tell you that i know i was disrespected by from your initial response and the chain reaction continued from there.

   you do many of your intellectual attacks under the guise of love and respect. you questioned my intelligence as i have questioned yours so i’m not seeing where you think you have been talked down to and cannot visualize yourself talking down to me.

   you’ve entered my realm without understanding where i was coming from, and that’s cool. the key is to question why i feel the way i do. to assume that i don’t know or have evidence to the way i’m feeling is to insult my intelligence.

   a complainer speaks into the wind and offers no solutions. i have offered solutions through everything i do and say. you’ve simply chosen not to listen. i see that you have requested to know what others are doing to make changes yet you fail to offer your own list of resolutions. i will step up and post a few of the things i do even though i do not believe in making a bunch of bullshit new year’s resolutions lists for they always get ignored. action is what is needed but here’s a short list for you anyway.

   i have stepped away from the congregation’s way of thinking. i have decided to activate my critical eye and view and question things from all directions. i have decided to stop crying about what is happening to my village as a whole and have decided to take action beginning with myself. i use myself as an experimental guide and pull myself from their medical “cures” and food addictions. i have begun to declutter my life and mind from the nonsense that i have been made to believe that was needed in my life. i have sought out information not fed to me by mainstream media. i have also stopped assuming to know what others think or do.

   assumptions make asses out of the one assuming and the one that assumptions are being created for. when i made the analogies that i did it was because i felt the same way you did and i behaved the same way you did to some extent. i can see that you have attached your personal emotional being to a day that has been created by the wizard. as you belittle the ideas of others who know that wizards do exist how can you expect respect for your ideas?

   regardless, respect was given to the mourners of the moment but not the day. i can tell the difference. i am not a cruel person to make assumptions or strip away someone’s feelings. i like to think and remain focused on the object that i am gunning for. we’re all not going to see eye-to-eye on most things and that’s fine with me.

   for the most part we as a people are sick. how can we as brown people take care of a sick nation when we ourselves do not know how to take care of ourselves? that is why i listed the few things that i did.

   now, to pose the question back to the inquisitor – what are you doing?

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8. pittershawn says:

   2009, September 11 at 10:36 am   (Quote me)

   wicked. fierce. on fire. i will mourn what is important to me. because in the end, that is what they do. they mourn what is important to them. they do not give equal opportunity mourning to what I believe needs attention. they want me to mourn their losses, but they never mourn mine. they cry over their losses, and i, ignorantly cry over theirs, forgetting that they do not shed the same tear for what i have lost and continue to lose.

   i won’t mourn for them. because they do not mourn for me. and although i believe in reciprocity, Armah has taught me that there is a time to see when the takers will never give. and one must take their marbles and just go home. because that kid down the block doesn’t want to play. he doesn’t want to share. he just wants to take your marbles, leave you with none, and then force you to forage through the rubble for more marbles for him, even though his coffers are filled to the top.

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   thenothing Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 10:44 am   (Quote me)

   speak sister, speak. i’m tired of mourning shit that does me no justice. they continue to step on our feelings and emotionally castrate us. to hell with their bullshit. fuck 9/11 and the bullshit that it stands for. for those who believe that the victims is what the constant shit is about – fuck off. you’re lost in the matrix and can’t even find the door if i painted one in front of your faces!!

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9. Ra Maat says:

   2009, September 11 at 10:26 am   (Quote me)

   EXCELLENT! You captured the reality and essence of Black People here in Amerikkka brilliantly. I don’t hear bells ringing for captured slaves landing on the shores of this stolen land. I don’t see the president, A Black man, living in a white house build buy slaves, going to the African Burial Grounds and saluting the victims of this country’s evil. Yes, i mourn all of the people that died in 9/11 because they never knew the evil that lurks within their own system.

   Funny how 9/11 is really 911, the number that we call for emergency help. Funny that when you cry for help, the same people that you are running from and need help from are the ones that answer the phone.

   Let us ring our bells for the stolen, murdered and castrated Africans. The raped and abused Queens that now live a life on polls instead of on thrones.

   I don’t hear their bells but i still hear thecries of my Ancestors at the bottom of the ocean. It’s full of Bones!

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   SwitchBlade Reply:
   September 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am   (Quote me)

   I’m simply tired of all this moaning about situations that this government creates. They continue to place people’s lives in danger and then treat us like abused dogs who come back for food at the hands of our tormentors. I will cease to look towards them for anything, especially help. Asking a cripple to help me walk across the street makes me the asshole, not the cripple giving me the puzzled look on how they would be able to help me.

   If infants could feed themselves they would not need caregivers. This government is one huge infant struggling to wear big boy pants. They can’t do shit for self but they continue to have this country in tears. Tears for presidents, statues, dogs, dolphins, cows, homeless people, abused children. When will enough tears be enough.

   I’ve run out of Kleenex.

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