Why are people so troubled about
things? The Washington Redskins football team now
thinks they need to abolish the Redskin
label. What??? Have we not twisted what that
name
Redskin really means to them?
It means a name of respect and honor to the very
athletic and
gifted warriors. The INDIANS!!!
Their team wanted to be associated with such men and
noted
for their athletic ability.
Same thing with the Buffalo—the Chiefs---and any bird,
animal, or famous person. They attached those
names to HONOR THEM!! Want to wear such names as badges
of strength. And now we have a generation who
thinks they need to destroy them! Such twisted
thinking! Don’t they rush to the tattoo parlors to
burn their heroes on their skin? Copy their hairstyles,
their choice of clothes, their lifestyle.
As for me, I like diversity.
Having traveled this world to over 30 different
countries, I am delighted to see how people dress in
different ways, eat different dishes, speak in different
languages. Would have been disappointed to travel
so far and not see how different people had different
ways of doing things; how they honored one another, kept
respect for their history, their culture…some of it
good, some bad. I also noted how even animals stayed in
herds, zebras had stripes, elephants big ears.
Mostly they got with their own, but went out
scavenging to feed themselves unless
they mostly ate grass. For thousands of years they
did these things—just as God planned.
Buffalo by the millions grazed our
plains—until people came along to see them as a way to
make money, taking their robes and leaving their hides
to rot, the beaver they trapped to sell and make
hats. Truth is—you never learned the other side of
the story, nor bothered to learn about it. You cry
inside. So do your children, your mamas.
I am a Swiss-German. Yes, we
immigrated to this country for several reason:
persecution, lack of opportunity, a better life, changes
in climate, wars. Little children were brought
with them, who did not have a choice. But most
grew up, worked hard, and achieved their dreams.
But years came when even my ancestors were put in
prisons and camps during our war years. So did the
Japanese experience it. Prejudice? Slanted eyes?
Japs? Yellow skin? Dark skin? Whatever evil
people put in their hearts, they wanted, they coveted,
and they hated.
Such is happening right now.
Lots of blacks hate whites, and whites hate blacks.
Called them names (both sides), hung them, shot them,
raped them, burned their homes. (both sides) and still
doing it. They want someone to suffer, to destroy
your way of life.
And now…it’s all coming to a point in
time where our good Lord is saying, “enough…”
Because so few of us are left that
pray, that do the right thing, love and cherish this
wonderful world with its diversity and splendor. Its
people of all color, all races.
Don’t hate and be unforgiving.
We’re all to blame in some way or another. I think
of
my friends who have such lovely dark
skin and slanted eyes. My daughter in law
Gina..beautiful! And I learned how good tacos
taste. But I can’t change my appearance, no matter
what I do…it will not be what I was born with. So I quit
trying and learn to love myself as what I am…except for
the hatred I might have stored up inside me.
Love is the great conqueror.
Mary
Mary
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