HOPE and VICTORY

I t may be a bit taboo to suggest that bringing in the New Year is an annual festivity marking the transition from the previous year.  Most celebrations are habitual, if not reflexive, as most Americans are programmed to just participate in seemingly superficial rituals that often fail to recognize how the world has fully shifted. Based on the law of 'cause and effect' the shift just didn't start in 2011, but the shift has been going on for a awhile now.  Sure, why each has it's unique happening, like 2011 finding over 14 million people unemployed--and, staying unemployed or the colonial West soundly manifesting its colonial inclinations while toppling sovereign,weaker nations events like these make 2011 a very significant year.  Let's not forget the Middle East uprisings and the increased saber rattling that finds Israel consolidating its position of being on the ready to destroy anything that is interpreted as a threat to its apartheid state o...

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"Everything was going on as planned until one day the whole world shifted".  This is a proclamation many of us dare to make but the agent of inevitable change has crept in on a grand scale. The permanent ice in the arctic is now melting away which can be used as a euphemism for things thought permanent but are now passing away in many sectors of activity in American lives.  People like to think of the upheaval in the Middle East as an anomalous shift  that only happens in a million years, but the Middle East shifting sounds actually complements the profound changes taking place the word over. And, contrary to what people want to believe, it has nothing to do with democracy or the need for overthrowing a dictator, but more so to do with the effects of frightful anxiety.  People want change no matter what the outcome. However, even if they don't want change, the advent of necessary shifting, good or bad, is upon us. However, just like any addict w...

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. . . The consensus is growing that the greatest failure of the modern presidency is no longer a self-absorbed, mean-spirited white guy. . .Rather, it is a self absorbed, mean-spirited black guy. Excerpt: Obama: Our First Post-Racial Failure , American Thinker, 7/28/11, Stuart Schwartz . . .But what about black Americans? Won't in Obama presidency at last lead us across centuries-old gulf of alienation into the recognition that America really is our country? . . .Like most Americans, I love to see an Obama presidency nudge things in this direction. But the larger reality is profound disparity between black and white Americans that will persist even under the glow of an Obama presidency . Excerpt: Obama Post-Racial Promise , LA Times, 11/5/08, Shelby Steele The quandary that black Americans find themselves in as they have and continue to give undying support to the first elected black president is clear. They did not support a black president, but they supporte...

"If indeed there will be a constitution coming, it should include equal rights for all, not just light skinned Libyans (Africans). If the rebels are (were) indeed fighting for a free democracy equal justice for all, their Achilles heel may be racism as it was so dramatically played out in the rampage. Now if this isn't a newsworthy story that American journalists can't seem to grasp--what a shame."  (Blog entry by writer, Yahoo, 8/28/11) I guess you can say that I come from the  old school  which is truly manifested in how I approach many things in life these days.  I'm talking about dressing, manners, critical thinking, music,and things like that. While I could never divorce myself from the personal eccentrics that help to pinpoint my unique personality, at the same time  happens to be a part of real culture that now epitomizes an era now in retreat--save the music.   I'm beginning to advise others to learn how to embrace the aging process--le...