it amazes me how narrow minded people can be about issues of racism and everything else. Someone brought the idea of intersectionalism up in an article I was reading in response to the white heterosexual women's rights she spoke of at the Oscars a couple years ago. Some one posted a comment that expressed nothing except a lack of interest in the entire subject. Yeah -- women do deserve equal pay. They're required by law to receive equal pay. So problem solved. The KKK aren't lynching black people and being lauded as heroes the next morning anywhere near as often as they once were (almost never, more or less). So MLK Jr's dream for the future is now a reality. Just like a multi-millionaire who gives $300,000 to charity every year and thinks that's enough to end poverty if people weren't so lazy. Just like people who keep their windows open with the A/C running and put recycling out on the curb and think global warming must be a myth if combating it requires spending a few extra dollars on their utility bill...On one hand, you got multi-millionaires who want to hoard 1.5+ million dollars of their annual takehome pay, presumably for the sake of their great great grandchildren & then you have others who are so obsessed with money that they're OK with the dystopia their great great grandchildren will inherit to the tune of $155 annual savings on the electric bill.
In many cases, it'd be nice if people quit pretending to care about things. Admit it already -- you don't care! Like that guy in I HEART HUCKABEES after his exwife was trying to defend buying some excess clothing after he pointed out that someone had to be thrown in jail without just cause or due process so that someone could make that clothing without paying as much for labor, and his daughter started crying and she was like "I didn't know!" Brutal but ultimately true -- "Mommy didn't know because Mommy doesn't care."
So yeah -- something ELSE we have to think about; INCLUSION. Yeah, some of us get it. It's so simple how could you NOT get it? We all want respect. We all want dignity. And we all want kindness. But at the very least basic respect and dignity since kindness is a little much to ask in a world where you don't even have to light a fire to have heat. Kindness is much like fire. You need two rocks chipping away at each other to create fire. Your hands get tired, and the two rocks lay down and hope for a fire ceases. With kindness, you need people being mindful of each other and in continual service of one another. It can happen, and in small pockets of society throughout the globe it often does. But then someone gets tired and someone else gets offended because they're NOT tired and nobody is there to serve, which means you're idle and your hands become the devil's playground.
There's more to being mindful of someone than not being anti-woman or anti-color or anti-non-color or anti-male or anti-atheist or anti-religion or anti-other-religion.......You have to realize the distinct possibility that someone sitting standing or laying not far from you is not as innocent as you are and someone, possibly a legion of bodies, have been injured in that person's wake. You may not be racist. But is your co-worker? Your neighbor? Your old friend from high school? Some guy on Comedy Central from Texas, I can't think of his name, was joking about homophobia, saying he had a friend who was a homophobe. He was conveying to the crowd something like 'I have this friend who is a homophobe, which I bet you think is weird huh? Didn't you think they'd all just kind of died off?' [Not an exact quote; probably better than I didn't include his name :/] I don't know if he was talking down to his California(?) audience or if he was trying his hand at surrealist humor or something...Obviously homophobia is on the decline. The old dogs don't catch on quick, but they do catch on, or they die trying. The youth of today are part of the rest of the USA, which more and more wants less and less input from God or His people. It's easier to understand the validity of an opposing argument when your desensitized to it. I think a large reason for the decline in KKK approval is the desegregation act of the early '60's. How can you remain intolerant of someone when you're constantly in their presence? A lot of people, even to this day, try to justify the idea that black people are inferior, but there is simply no justice in that concept. there is nothing different about black people except the style of their art and of course the fact that they are black. The lack of technology in many/most/all(?) African tribes was, I would guess, a result of their religious beliefs that encouraged them not to venture far from safety and discouraged them from venturing into the unknown. I don't even know if any of those religions are around anymore. Something I can look up tomorrow when I'm a little more awake. I need to look at my budget again but I'm REALLY sleepy and I'm just kind of babbling about. I haven't read my Bible in a few days at least. It wouldn't surprise me if I sound like I'm just talking out of my ass. Please Lord God, Jesus my savior, Holy Spirit - Please give me a good night's rest and drive me forward tomorrow headfirst into your word. Thank you God for giving Your Word a Pulse so that we may live out your word in deed. And thank you for Your Holy Spirit, so that we may do so as if we mean it. Sorry to any readers who feel like they just wasted their time reading all this.......stuff.
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