Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Donald Trump, Van Jones, and If Trump Were Black, People Would Be Freaking Out, Jail on Their Tongues

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WOW. If Trump were black. You should find 10 minutes to watch it. And/or read some excerpts below. Van Jones spot on, again.
“If he were an NBA player… if he were Tiger Woods…Everybody would be like, I wonder if he’s going to drop out, I wonder if he’s going to go to jail!?”
The groper, the super-predator. Admitting to serial assaults of women.
“Let’s be very clear: Donald Trump has confessed to a sex crime.”
“And yet you have a super predator running for President.”
“When black people do stuff, we quickly rush to criminality. When white people do stuff, it’s like, ok, this is frat boy behavior.”
“The racism, the sexism… white privilege, is amazing. Let’s talk about male privilege…. What if Hillary Clinton was running around grabbing men’s crotches?”
“If I were to go up to Donald Trump, and grab Donald Trump’s crotch, and try to kiss Donald Trump, I would go to jail, I would be arrested. That is called sexual assault. It is a crime. Ok, it is a crime. You can’t do that.”
“You have somebody running for President of the United States, who has confessed on tape to committing sex crimes, and people are talking about it as if there is something wrong about the language.”
“Remember Richard Sherman, a Stanford-educated top athlete, who spiked a football and talked some trash, was widely called a thug. If he’s a thug, what is Donald Trump?”
“No black man in America could be in this situation without the entire universe coming down on the whole black community.”
“All year long you have seen the presumption of criminality of young black men…. He’s a thug, he’s a criminal, what’s a cop supposed to do? Kill him.”
“And then you have a confession to a sex crime [three months into a new marriage] by a prominent person and nobody even sees it as a crime. They just see it as profanity… ‘He used lewd language.’
It’s not the language!”
“It’s the presumption of innocence and non criminality of white Americans no matter what crazy thing they confess to! It’s not an accusation-- this dude is confessing!”
“So I’m upset, I’m frustrated, I’m furious. This is ridiculous.”
“If Donald Trump were a black man he would be up under the prison and the word thug would be all over the internet, all over the TV.”
“IT WOULD BE A WRAP.”


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Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012

Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.

Antidotes to Violence, a.k.a., Take Charge of Where Your Head's At - here

Tell Congress to Strengthen Gun Control Laws NOW - here

Good News & Brain Food News -
Christians & Muslims Gather, for Peace here
Good News - Top RIO+20 Summit Posts here
The 'Busy' Trap - NYTimes.com
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