• We are a multilingual website again. Read the notice about this.
  • Understand AI use at MyPTSD: all AI use is explained in our AI help page. AI use is by choice here. It exists if you want it, but does nothing unless you choose to use it.

News Black And White Hammers!

  • Post starter Post starter Deleted member 34535
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
D

Deleted member 34535

So let's say I am a carpenter and I need 2 hammers. I go into the local hardware store to get my hammers. There are 2 in stock. Same hammer, same weight, same type, the only difference is the color of the handles. I buy them both, one black handled one and one white handled one. Over the course of 2 weeks time, I use both hammers equally. I pay no attention to the color of the handle. They both have the same specifications, so what damn difference does it make.
I played hookie from church week before last and went fishing. And I had a freaking ball. Maybe I should have done the same this past Sunday, but I figured I would probably get struck by lightening. I am due, believe me. I was ready to roll out of that puppy during the Pastor's sermon. It's a good thing I was well medicated, or it may have gotten ugly. We all know about the horrible tragedies that occured in Dallas, Minnesota, and Louisiana. Our pastor said that being we are a predominantly caucasian church, we don't really know what it is like to be an African American today. That we needed to be especially sensitive to African Americans. I love everybody, regardless of skin color until they prove to me as an individual that they are not worthy of my love. I sure as hell would never expect pastors of African American churches to say to their parishioners that they needed to be especially sensitive to caucasian folks because it was one of ours that gunned down five of them and Police Officers to boot. The individuals who perpetrate these hideous acts are the only ones responsible, not society as a whole.

Who knows how exactly it works, but 1 male and 1 female get together and make whoopy, and the seed of a baby is planted. Somewhere in the process, it is time to assign a soul to said baby. I don't think the keeper of the spirit locker has spirits with specific colors on them. A soul is a soul. We are all just human beings. The color of our earthsuit is irrelevant. The amount of melanin that a person has in their skin means absolutely nothing.

We need to get over this black and white and yellow and sand-colored BS and we need to do it now. The only ones that benefit from keeping this crap going are the ones who, year after year after year proclaim themselves the ones who are going to fix the problems. And 60 years later, they are still saying they are the only ones that can fix the problems. Truth be told, if they actually did fix the problems, then they would be out of a job. So you know damn well they aren't going to fix anything. When you rely on anyone but yourself to fix your problems, you are sure to be disappointed. Blessings to everyone and every skin color!
 
This cartoon says it better than I ever could: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2016/07/07/all-houses-matter-the-extended-cut/

Color cannot be declared irrelevant; it's been relevant in the US alone for as long as the US has existed. I sincerely hope that we as a human race can move towards a time when color is considered as part of a whole person, and of no more or less import than the rest of who they are - their voice, feelings, actions, beliefs, gender, eyes, smile - as you say, their soul.

But right now, we are far from that world. And we won't get to that world by closing our eyes and hoping it goes away.

I hope we can figure out how to get there without more and more blood shed.
 
If we all just paid full attention to caring for ourselves first and doing the right thing, a whole lot of this would just go away. Maybe then we could relegate the trouble makers and irritants to their rightful place. The land of insignificance.
 
You know what's funny though - slavery has been around forever. Probably since the first two tribes battled over a watering hole and the winners had to decide what to do with the surviving losers. I'm not condoning it, in fact I think it's disgusting, but it does seem to be inherent in our species.
 
WHAT? "Color cannot be declared irrelevant; it's been relevant in the US alone for as long as the US has existed" beg to differ as way way before the US did an ethnicity seek dominion on another. If ya want to go back, why go to relatively recent history... let's go all the way back.

Personally I don't give two shakes if a hammer is white or black or anything in the spectrum in between. It has a function, it does it reliably, it doesn't matter. However the difficulty is that human beings aren't necessarily keen on serving a purpose or even functioning reliably. History... not just US history is replete with it. Factions, tribes, wars, disputes... human beings historically are not necessarily reasonable, rational or even congenial. Look it up.
 
History... not just US history is replete with it. Factions, tribes, wars, disputes... human beings historically are not necessarily reasonable, rational or even congenial. Look it up.
I agree with you completely. I meant to be making a point about how old the issue is, and how young the US is, comparatively - but I didn't say it clearly at all. I just don't think color can be irrelevant, that's all. I could have used less words and been clearer.
 
In spite of color and race differences the common sense approach makes the most sense to me, we all have white skeletons and red blood. Being color blind is the way to go., for me.

A really good historical fact book is The lies my teacher told, I cannot remember the author but it sure was an eye opener for me. I live in a multiculteral apartment complex and everyone pretty much gets along very well. I love where I live. It is so peaceful here.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Donation drives

2026 Donation Goal

Goal
$1,800.00
Earned
$910.00
This donation drive ends in
0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
  50.6%

Trending content

Featured content

Back
Top Bottom