Oh yeah..... Covid.

Vaccine Push

Kansas Sunset ....

What if I / you / we  made all the difference in the world? God!

I say that as I look out at these mythic towering Clouds stretch across the plains, it’s 7:39 PM
on Amtrak Train #4, the South West Chief, enroute from LA to Chicago. Looking across the plains from the observation car and I imagine some 150 years ago some pioneer wagon train looking back at this
primal landscape. In an age with no Internet, no none of that could even be conceived of not the slightest notion (in my conception)..

Just a world of intense life, life decisions against the backdrop of the immensity of … God!  …  or the Mystery of Life.

Just like today. Just like it ever was. In the observation car. Rain has sprinkled against the west facing windows,  a little orange and yellow of the setting  of the sun also in the windows,  if I turn and crane my neck backwards left about where the Amish woman who is reading a book wearing her white bonnet and 100 year old style wear. Directly behind me the party of three happy Black women slamming down Dominos with some soul  music playing ….

  And now the setting sun on my left has come shining clear through the clouds. They moved to give room right on the horizon and the light shining through the raindrops on the train windows and I mention that to the Amish woman and the three woman whose game is over but they pause to look…. 'Isn’t that beautiful!' And take pictures on their I Phone and the Amish woman stands and stares through the golden rain drops and yes imagine…    A few lightening strikes off to the dark right side….

   And I look back and that sun send off rays of gold and hohum just another sunset and as they say someone's sunset is someone else’s sunrise.

   Let me see what was I going to say about the world ?.. or maybe just the beautiful events of the day.

   Just another day hoping to emerge from tired brain and innerspection… and it will have to do because I didn’t go beyond little vignettes of cool humanity or else the desire to run from the aforementioned humanity. As I have finally done the modern soul music sort of a rap thing with it’s rhythmic bang … bang just too much and I retreated to the far corner facing the still glowing post sun fading glow…

  Remembering hours before... Albuquerque we had 30 minutes to stretch and to hustle down a classic Albuquerque street scene in old town. What’s a classic Albuquerque street scene? just old paved over America Midday in May passing some street people with their full carts and their sad lives past large parking lots with no cars some newish apartment complex.. probably mixed ‘affordable’ housing Hah! What do I know? I ducked into the Silver Market off of Silver Street see if I can get some improvement on the Train Snack Bar Food…

  They ran out of their Hebrew Kosher Hot Dogs they ran out of their Sabra Hummus and Pretzels ..they being Amtrak… but back at Silver Street I could see this was not the greatest level of gourmet choice but a 2.99 Tuna Fish Sandwich looked like a deal… and a few other Kickory BarBQ chips .. make that Hickory but Kickory sounds good to… Anyhow just a touch of human … in line with the checker dude short hair but tattooed pretty strongly over his arms, maybe in his 40’s I mention “hey let me grab one of these papers find out what is going on in Albuquerque”  Newspapers. He laughs… “Ha! Nothing!” Then I decide to tell him about the big  Destroy Fascism graffitti I saw as I was pondering the absurd mess of America with our parking lots and wealth and consumer and loss from Nature and I laugh “Fascism?!
Hah!  What a joke, take a look at our lives. What is this Ism we Is? “

Anyways my new good friend in the Check Out moment goes yeah  ‘ that’s our Millenials!’ Yup and me a deadbeat Boomer still hoping for some kind of redemption or at least the cojones to laugh out loud and scare my own Blues away on any old day. ( I can do that! But a real good laugh ahh a great laugh!!  That would be good.)

The Bear Came to San Anselmo

 

May 15, Saturday 2021

The Bear came to San Anselmo. The Bear left San Anselmo.

 It is still morning as train 710 from Emeryville to Bakersfield
rolls along. I have begun my Train ride across the country (ultimately destined for the Hudson Valley and then Maine) it is a marvelous experience even the
the great flat Central Valley, as we head further south having passed Merced and now paused at the station in Madera.  I can see the distant Sierras to my right (I must have been sitting facing the rear of the train as I review this post)  a hazy darker blue against the California Blue sky.  Cumulus clouds some small some maybe very big, seem to run North and South over those distant peaks. To my left is the wide valley already getting to the more arid southern valley. The Almond groves amply watered have passed.. I remind myself that once upon a time the Central Valley would flood every Winter. Once upon a time many things have happened.

‘Ladies and gentlemen Fresno is next!’

I sit with my computer on a table facing the back-end of the train. There are three unoccupied seats here and the car is perfectly filled with the right amount of space for the masked passengers. Patiently masked passengers.

 The thought of the Bear, his visit to my small town, a small town not known to be very popular with Bears still vibrates/echoes.. lingers.  I don’t want his memory to fade out without giving him his improbable story, his frightened magnificence, his due.

https://www.marinij.com/2021/05/13/bear-roams-into-downtown-san-anselmo/

 Bears are real but Bears are mythic too. The previous inhabitants of California had a powerful  relationship to all the Wild animals that were part of their natural surroundings. We, us people riding this train of Euro/American civilization. We have only been here in California only a relatively short time, but we are all here to learn. Interesting that the first Spanish Boat set anchor in Richardson Bay within the SF Bay a little inlet part of a town in my County, Marin known as Mill Valley that happened in the year 1776…

‘This is Fresno.. coming up!’

The Bear and encounters with a Bear were a big deal back in this culture that existed here before us.
I do not know the name of what we term ‘indigenous’ peoples who lived in this area of the Central Valley around Fresno. California had a remarkable diversity of tribal peoples. Where San Anselmo people live now lived the people called Miwoks or sometimes Coastal Miwoks and there was another
branch of this tribal linguistic culture called Mountain Miwoks that seemed to be separated by other
different people with different languages…. Now as I look out at modern California right now I see piles of Concrete Rubble and now Parking Lots of Trucks and now a passing BNSF freight train carrying more trucks…. And on and on in our amazing civilization. But still a visit of a Bear is a big Deal to a little town that I sometimes call San An’slo-mo’ …  We are all fundamentally just People and though we know nothing of (most of us) what life would be like to be one of the these historic residents who had not the technology nor even perhaps the desire to control or live outside of nature. We are all just people and we all have the power to take in any experience particularly an encounter with a major Predator  on the food chain ( as this poor be’wild’ered, outsider up in a tree on a small street in San Anselmo is .. <identified as adolescent.. thought to be about 200 lbs.>) make of it what we will, to get a dose of inspiration, a dose of wild connection, even spirit connection.



 Today is Saturday, the Bear was found in the tree two days past, Thursday …

 More Almond Trees.. now grape vineyards.. and now a golf course off on the right…

‘Hanford is your stop!’

The Bear. You might then bear with me.. (Yess Guy. Good one!) You might bare with me as I share some of my spirit connection with the Bear. As you might have noticed this blog, web log,  (I prefer. Bears love a good log,) you know is titled California Times as is my famous TV show (someday soon) and this show has a beautiful logos which is of course thee California Bear.

On Wednesday I had a Zoom interview with a guest as part of this series regarding housing in CA it did not go as well as I wanted. Thursday I was due for another one.  I seem to have a great deal of self-consciousness issues that do not necessarily make it easy for someone who decides to put oneself in the eye of the public. I won’t bother you with any thing deep here except that sometimes I just get up in the middle of the night after not being able to sleep and I go for a walk. This can be anywhere from 1 AM to 5 AM… sometimes it works and I fall asleep fairly easily afterwards.

At about 3AM or so Thursday I went for a walk. I live on Tamalpais Street a block from downtown just a few houses down from the corner of Cedar and Tamalpais where I always head and turn left end up with about a 30 minute walk past the Post Office, a loop. I turned the corner at Cedar as I always do, a corner that has a particularly beautiful Live Oak tree, as this variety of Oak is called. It is very tall, and very graceful and it took many walks past it before I stopped and appreciated it (there are so many trees in SA you take them for granted)… I walked past it I am not quite sure how far past I was but I heard something. ‘What’s that!’ I told myself as the sound of something from behind me triggered this ! exclamation point in my brain. I don’t know what I heard.
I kept walking.

 I got back home. Anyways Insomnia did not let up I took a melatonin tab which does not always work… I roused myself that AM feeling terribly sleep deprived and sub-human. I wanted to postpone the PM interview, my producer wouldn’t let me! I had a rendezvous with a female friend at Robson Park, I can’t reveal much of the details of this friendship but…. In a tight schedule where I could have been studying a script which I am always have been a stranger.. I texted my friend and used the words ‘pain and suffering’ to describe my plight… Guy get to the Bear!

Under the Redwoods at 11 AM in Robson Park we did some meditation breathing thing… seemed to work. Felt strength! Even peace.

Somehow later that day. Surrendered to the Redwoods and Nature and then mid-afternoon to the wisdom and discipline of a script and a Producer I think we had a great interview.

‘Wasco will be a very brief stop, ladies and gentlemen Wasco is next!’

So I got back at the end of that day PG& E had Tamalpais closed off all day for electrical work replacing a pole down at the town end of the block. I didn’t notice much but they PG&E people said electricity is back on. I went home oblivious to PG&E and whatever else. All I could do was lie down and sleep. An hour later got up.. internet Gmail .. Headlines Bear in San Anselmo.. ! What??  What??? What??!!

   On Tamalpais Street!!  

  Walk out What! Police Cars up to the Cedar Street intersection, Police Caution tape… I walk up to it! A woman police officer says sorry you must go inside your house and shut the door and windows! What! Well I go back to my yard… that much I can do.

  She described the situation briefly… police cars lined up to barricade Tam Street, up in the Tree I could not see the Bear but could see the Tree… (turned out I was looking at the wrong tree)

   Bakersfield in a few minutes.. transfer to an Amtrak bus to take me to Union Station LA. Looks like Almond Trees to my left and right and another BNSF freight passing on the right.

  So I decided to go back in and comment on the Bear on the Marin IJ post … be the local reporter,
the local gossiper, the local internet wiseguy.

  I went back and forth to inside desk and outside look a few times. Gratified to see a MMWD Park ranger show up. Definitely worried afraid of the potential for a bad outcome no jokes about BLM please. Bear Lives Matter!
Heard a loud Beep Breaahh (?) !!  of a Police Car and dashed out again… He’s down someone says.. The police cars start moving off towards Robson Park. Nothing left to do… but talk to the neighbors… Dude with young daughter walks by on phone what did I overhear?! 

  'My wife just called to say a Bear just ran through Robson Park… !'   

   Go Bear Go!

  All passengers going to LA bus number 1!

Matt Taibbi May 11

Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It News companies are pioneering a new brand of vigilante reporting, partnering with the spy agencies they once oversaw Matt Taibbi May 11 Former CIA director John Brennan was a media villain, now he’s media himself. What a difference a decade makes. Just over ten years ago, on July 25, 2010, Wikileaks released 75,000 secret U.S. military reports involving the war in Afghanistan. The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel helped release the documents, which were devastating to America’s intelligence community and military, revealing systemic abuses that included civilian massacres and an assassination squad, TF 373, whose existence the United States kept “protected” even from its allies. The Afghan War logs came out at the beginning of a historic stretch of true oppositional journalism, when outlets like Le Monde, El Pais, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The New York Times, and others partnered with sites like Wikileaks. Official secrets were exposed on a scale not seen since the Church Committee hearings of the seventies, as reporters pored through 250,000 American diplomatic cables, secret files about every detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and hundreds of thousands of additional documents about everything from the Iraq war to coverups of environmental catastrophes, among other things helping trigger the “Arab Spring.” There was an attempt at a response — companies like Amazon, Master Card, Visa, and Paypal shut Wikileaks off, and the Pentagon flooded the site with a “denial of service” attack — but leaks continued. One person inspired by the revelations was former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who came forward to unveil an illegal domestic surveillance program, a story that won an Oscar and a Pulitzer Prize for documentarian Laura Poitras and reporters Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill. By 2014, members of Congress in both parties were calling for the resignations of CIA chief John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, both of whom had been caught lying to congress. The culmination of this period came when billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched The Intercept in February 2014. The outlet was devoted to sifting through Snowden’s archive of leaked secrets, and its first story described how the NSA and CIA frequently made errors using geolocation to identify and assassinate drone targets. A few months later, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden admitted, “We kill people based on metadata.” Fast forward seven years. Julian Assange is behind bars, and may die there. Snowden is in exile in Russia. Brennan, Clapper, and Hayden have been rehabilitated and are all paid contributors to either MSNBC or CNN, part of a wave of intelligence officers who’ve flooded the airwaves and op-ed pages in recent years, including the FBI’s Asha Rangappa, Clint Watts, Josh Campbell, former counterintelligence chief Frank Figliuzzi and former deputy director Andrew McCabe, the CIA’s John Sipher, Phil Mudd, Ned Price, and many others. Once again, Internet platforms, credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard, and payment processors like PayPal are working to help track down and/or block the activities of “extremists.” This time, they’re on the same side as the onetime press allies of Wikileaks and Snowden, who began a course reversal after the election of Donald Trump. Those outlets first began steering attention away from intelligence abuses and toward bugbears like Trumpism, misinformation, and Russian meddling, then entered into partnerships with Langley-approved facsimiles of leak sites like Hamilton 68 , New Knowledge, and especially Bellingcat, a kind of reverse Wikileaks devoted to exposing the misdeeds of regimes in Russia, Syria, and Iran — less so the United States and its allies. The CIA’s former deputy chief of operations for Europe and Eurasia, Marc Polymeropolous, said of the group’s work, “I don’t want to be too dramatic, but we love this.” After the Capitol riots of January 6th, the War on Terror came home, and “domestic extremists” stepped into the role enemy combatants played before. George Bush once launched an all-out campaign to pacify any safe haven for trrrsts, promising to “smoke ‘em out of their holes.” The new campaign is aimed at stamping out areas for surveillance-proof communication, which CNN security analyst and former DHS official Juliette Kayyem described as any online network “that lets [domestic extremists] talk amongst themselves.” Reporters pledged assistance, snooping for evidence of wrongness in digital rather than geographical “hidey holes.” We’ve seen The Guardian warning about the perils of podcasts, ProPublica arguing that Apple’s lax speech environment contributed to the January 6th riot, and reporters from The Verge and Vice and The New York Times listening in to Clubhouse chats in search of evidence of dangerous thought. In an inspired homage to the lunacy of the War on Terror years, a GQ writer even went on Twitter last week to chat with the author of George Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech about imploring the “authorities” to use the “Fire in a Crowded Theater” argument to shut down Fox News. Multiple outlets announced plans to track “extremists”  ...............

We Shall Overcome .....

 Got caught up in reading this post. Even more fear. I wonder if this is almost strictly a phenomenon
of urban existence. Is this going on in the suburbs?

  Marin Independent Journal Story on Asian American Fear and Hate..

  To which I wrote a response under the name Wheeler in the comment section... 

Fanning the flames of hate?. We have a homeless crisis and a lot of the people
wandering the streets are mentally ill and angry. Then there is what seems to be
young ghetto thugs who feel they have someone to pick on. The constant stories
reinforcing fear is a barrage that may be fueling the ignorant and ill. Then you have the
young reporter who ties it all in with "then-president Donald Trump began using racist rhetoric
to describe the coronavirus." which seems to be the narrative... Is this Journalism or is this
everybody knows so I will repeat it. Calling Covid 19 The Chinese Virus, may have been rude,
unpolitic etc, as the President was. 'racist rhetoric' ?
The right Kind of Hate... is that what we must subscribe to in these
modern times? Directed to all you people who disagree with the Narrative of this current trend...
what once might have been 'Liberal' now its 'we mean business' ... Our side of the story or forget it.

Manufacturing 'Hate' or ...

Headline after Headline .. story after story.. I keep finding the same results.

The Headline : Asian Hate Crime ... The story: another mentally ill Homeless Person on the loose.

Are  these stories fostering/reinforcing an atmosphere of Fear? 

Does fear induce aggression? 

Do news outlets feel an obligation to put 'Hate' in the headline?

Do news organizations capitalize on scary headlines? The more likely a person will click through, generating income for the 'News' source? They catch me repeatedly.

 Todays example..

 https://patch.com/california/sananselmofairfax/s/hiyvl/bay-area-anti-asian-hate-crime-probed

and I google to see what is another example for today and I get this story....
How can you ignore this? 

https://abc7news.com/slap-an-asian-challenge-bay-area-san-francisco-stop-hate/10450222/

ABC news presents a frightening story, except where is any evidence?

This one tweet of an anonymous, 'you heard it on the internet', good enough for ABC TV... 

'I’m hearing there’s a “slap an Asian” challenge going on with the youths in the Bay Area now. ' This one tweet ... 'I'm hearing' well dude, copy the Tweet or FB or whatever you heard, wherever you heard it as evidence and share it if you are real or it is real 

  Terrible journalism pumping oxygen into a story that appears to be a fabrication.

   Asian people are loved in America... Black People are Loved in America. Blue People are Loved in America! Fat people are loved in America! Skinny People are loved in America! 

   You may not believe it. It is far more accurate than this pandemic of fear whose motivation seems to be...

     '....lets perpetuate a world of enemies. Maybe I can be perceived as a hero if I can point out as much
hate as I can possibly find. Maybe I can help my news outlet be heroic as well as help them make money. Maybe we can rise up and defeat our 'enemies'   ... enemies? You know. Those guys over there, they are full of hate...'  are they?

    Who is dividing who?

   
  'I look at you all see the love there that is sleeping, still my guitar gently weeps'

  https://genius.com/The-beatles-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-lyrics

Who Am I?

 Who are you? ..... 

Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?
Who are you?
Who, who, who, who?

 A great horned owl?  Who, who, who, who .... the F 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbBDrceCy8

God! Love that band! 

I don't know why I got started with this post. Who am I, to tell you who I am. 
On the other hand maybe I do have some insight that you don't have. Let me imagine a
a world that peacefully accepts the contributions of any and all of us without too much harsh 
judgement knowing that I may be as much a mystery as you ... and we all are babes with eyes
are eyes open in wide wonder trying to understand our role in this Universe.

 May the Universe be with you. 

 We have to try. To expand the circle, to live a circle to .....

Letter to the Marin IJ published April 5 ....

 

Keep local control for Marin housing projects

Is it too late to rescue California and our country in order to rekindle a memory of American ideals?

On what basis have we stripped local jurisdictions of much of their discretion, power and authority to review and approve residential housing projects? We are American citizens born with certain inalienable rights. How did we surrender these rights to the greater power of Sacramento?

Are we providing for our children’s future by trading off local self-determination for the supposed security of addressing the housing crisis? Is the experiment in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness over now? Have we achieved some higher wisdom or practicality?

There is a corruption of our ideals making its way through American culture and California is leading the way. It is deceptively packaged in what seems a noble sentiment, that we are an improved people when we relinquish individual rights for the greater good. This is not a sound philosophy. This does not improve the spiritual, intellectual well-being of citizens. It is contrary to what American ideals have striven to uphold over generations.

Communities are enriched when the population is made up of educated responsible citizens who exercise their full powers to affect change and to protect what they love. Mandates from Sacramento or Washington, D.C. (or Beijing or Moscow) diminish the spirit, independence and creativity of their people.

No one knows more of what’s best for your community than your community. There is no one who knows what’s best for you but you. It’s not necessarily easy but we must stand up on behalf of our communities and our civil rights.

— Guy Meyer, San Anselmo

Bukele of El Salvador with Tucker

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bukele+tucker+carlson

Bukele created or helped create an independent party. A party not dominated by the
Wealthy of the Right nor the traditional Socialist/Communist adversarial position of the Left.

Bukele is of Palestinian descent. There has been a Palestinian Community in El Salvador for a couple
of generations.

Senator Mike Lee and FBI

 

Once upon a time back in 1971 for instance 85% of Republicans in a poll I found

in a 1971 Look Magazine Article supported the war in VietNam about 85% of Democrats

were opposed..

The Bush Jr years you could find that the Republican Party strongly supported the invasion of Iraq

and the War on Terror ....

Somehow over the last 20 years ' the security state',  FBI, CIA, Homeland Security... found a way to Secure

itself in it's power to find 'Enemies'. Finding enemies that threaten us ensures that the Security State

has a reason to exist. Now it's domestic terror. Extremists. 

I wasn't familiar with Mike Lee Republican Senator. I am not familiar with most Senators Republican or Democrat..

Somehow more and more lately it seems that Republicans even Fox news Have become the voice of

what was once the domain of the 'Doves' back in the 60's and 70's .. the voice of dissent against an 

'Establishment' that wants an end to 'discord'. Trust us they say.

Attachments area

Preview YouTube video Sen. Lee tells FBI Director Christopher Wray, "We're not going to accept that answer anymore."

Sen. Lee tells FBI Director Christopher Wray, "We're not going to accept that answer anymore."

Governor of California, Pass the torch ...

 I have begun a number of campaign kick-off speeches in my journals, with a number of approaches,
as to why I raise my hand and volunteer for the job. I have not completed the task of writing, the one.

 Life, Liberty and Happiness!
 Get the Broom!
 Protect what you love!
 Positive change (for a change)
 Pass the Torch!

 Pass the torch. The commandment that thousands of years of human life has been all about.
Because there are children. They are ours. The natural environment that is ours. We have a duty
to not give up to cynicism and a duty recognize the need of some fundamental shift in our
Civilization's direction. Not just seeing the need as in recognizing the present reality as being ...
unsustainable, but in seeing a path forward clearly available to us. 

  95 Million Barrels of Oil a day required for you and I to fuel our self destruction?
  A 25% increase needed in Green Energy sources if we were to transition our automobile
 driven lifestyles from Carbon burning to non-carbon.
 An Exxon Valdez spill every year in the amount of Crude Oil spilled in our Oceans by Sea transport
of goods.
 1000 Cargo containers a year topple into the sea.
 etc... 3,000 square miles a year in USA given up to development.

I can find more grim facts but let's leave that and admit that we are in a very real bind, until we stand up and acknowledge that this bind is no-good, then we are simply not doing our children good. 

 We can do this. The unpleasant anxiety that you and I everyone of us experience daily is partly because
we know that the change must come but we can't see how. Business as usual is not the path forward.
California 'Roaring Back'  as Governor Newsom optimistically declares sounds .... Blind to me. 

   A path creative, and responsive, bold and rebellious is needed. It can be done. It will be done.

Status Update

  Status on 3/10/2021 edited on 3/15

  God knows!

  What I do know is .... my Health and Spirit needs reviving, as it does every day.
   
  Get rid of computers was number 6 on my to do list, today. The last of six items. 

  Instead I am sitting here with a possibly complicated post that reveals how deeply
dependent I am on this form of communication. I own two laptops one PC one Mac
they are both old. I do not want a brand new one. 

  My campaign for Governor of California has not officially started and I ponder if
this thought has been too much of a weight upon my spirit over the last couple of months.

  I am thinking No. There are other factors that are preparing me to step very lightly into
this 2021 with a streamlined methodology.

 Factors like dropping my little Lumix digital
35mm with excellent video capacity, unrepairable!

 Factors like this Health thing again. How
this pressure across my chest, that might be construed as some form of an anxiety side effect
ratchets up so decidedly after 30 minutes with my computer open. So much that I have decided
not to ignore it but to act upon it. That being don't open up the blessed computers...

Another Factor my rapidly diminishing bank account,
precarious!

Another factor my Music at Creek Park that brings me Joy and frustration...
I don't need any additional frustration... I am simply too loose, un-professional, musically
adrift etc... I can't quite pull it together as a Performer. Time to step back. This despite encouraging words from friends who think I may bring happiness to the scene, and 
might be creating enough positive waves to counter my flubs, wildness, lack of rhythm..
enough of that I say.

That's it for the time being In really wanted to do a post entitled fanning the Flames of Racism this from today's observation in the Mainstream Media knowing that there would be front page stories on any Newspaper in America finding Racism somewhere.

   Asian Racism in SF Chronicle
   Eugene Register Guard a new law for Bias crimes
   Atlanta on and on ....

   Healing, reconciliation, engagement way beyond Race as to what we are doing to weave our fabric of
 Life in our Communities towards Peace. In me.

Back to the Mule

The Mule

Defending Life Liberty and Happiness in California!

Racist

 http://www.racialsobriety.com/SOCIOTEXT.php


          Racist         

          adjective

1. prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
   
   
   
   
   Is a categorization of generalities of people by race with their reactions described by race any thing but
   a lens of Race oriented labeling? When their 'White' racism is pointed out, is your racism good and other
   peoples bad? Is this material circulating through local governments in America? 
   
   Does this accomplish anything besides empowering someone to be paid by Americans of all Colors tax dollars, to point fingers at one another. Does one have the right to refuse to be part of this training? 
   
   We are all manner of people, with all manner of perspectives that we shall not act in fear based on the errors of someone else's opinions. Unless there can be shown some breaking of laws or harm to anyone. 
   
   I could see that on entering a Government profession. That all prospective employees be asked if they have
   any beliefs that any group or individual is any better or worse than any other group or individual or are they willing to faithfully apply themselves to their position with regard to race, religion or any particular creed. Yes or no ? So help you God. Period Done! 
   
   
    That's it. Let's move on. This below is weird sociological mumbo jumbo that should have no place in this country. We are all part of a tribe called Humanity.
   
   
   
   

   SOCIOTEXT

   White (Europeans / Caucasians) Nonwhite (People of Color) Response Repertories White Supremacy Whites relating to Nonwhites Nonwhites relating to Whites Nonwhite Supremacy Colorists / Intermediates Denial Denial that Nonwhites are equal human beings Denial of white privilege, avoidance and / or hostility towards Nonwhites Denial of effects of racism in my life Denial that Whites are people, both good and bad Denial of their nonwhiteness or whiteness Anger Anger that Nonwhites enjoy some degree of enfranchisement Anger when their racism (blatant or latent) is pointed out Anger at the realization that racism has circumscribed and impacted their life from birth Anger that Nonwhites do not see what White society is perpetrating Anger when their humanity is denied or confined based on nonwhiteness Bargaining Bargaining: My Whiteness is protected by the separation and avoidance of nonwhites Bargaining: "I am not a racist. I don't see color. I judge people by their character." Bargaining: "I am not like the rest of the Nonwhite race," i.e. Oreo (Black), Apple (Native), Coconut (Hispanic), Banana (Asian) Bargaining: Separation from white control of nonwhite community and psyche Bargaining: To escape the oppression - I am not Nonwhite, only partially so Depression Depression: People of Color are seen enjoying the benefits of White enfranchisement Depression: Discovery of racial dysfunction in attitudes, feelings and behavior Depression: No guarantee of equal treatment, kept in our place Depression: The  realizing that Nonwhites are inter-connected with white society Depression: Society does not let one escape their Nonwhite status Acceptance Acceptance: The value of society's enfranchisement is based on my humanity, not my whiteness Acceptance: My recovery from racism begins with myself and my world Acceptance: Acceptance of  operating in a hostile society Acceptance: Nonwhites are part of society and deserve to be enfranchised Acceptance: To recover my self-esteem based on my person, not my degree of - whiteness

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Progressive Song

  Progress Progress such a beautiful thing, Equity for all living things..

     Progress Progress such a beautiful thing, Sanctuary for everyone of
     the right color...
     In your Backyard.
     In the Meantime let's declare a Climate Emergency!
     We must Marshal our forces, another 2 Trillion should do it!
     Kerry will zip around in his private Jet. We will build
     10 Million new houses for People of Color from all over the World...
     Sanctuary right this way! You'll love the Great Plains!
     You'll Love the Great Basin! Plenty of Room.
     Marin County can squeeze another Affordable Tombs...
     Oh you Homeless people you are so in the way!
     Progress Progress We are creating a new Climate ..
     a Climate of love, can't you feel it? Science is Real!
     Get your Vaccinations Here! 5G 6G Plastics are us!
     What's all the fuss! Progress Progress 
     Lemmings Whoa!

      Sung to the tune of ... to the tune of.... ???
      Lost lives (how many)
      destroyed communities (how many)
      Loss of EcoSystems as Humanity is more important.
      Who needs 
      those troubling EIRs, we must streamline, we are in an Emergency!

      Mercy Mercy ...