When I was younger, I didn’t care about politics or civics at all. To me, it was all B*S*, all politicians were corrupt, and all of it had little to do with my reality of raising my children as a single mom, trying to buy food and budget my inadequate finances to stay afloat. I thought the rantings of my elders was just so much of a social trope (think the image of an old man complaining “things aren’t like they used to be.”) In today’s lack of cohesive society, and with the hindsight of age, I now understand their concerns. So I sat down to maybe glean some ideas of how to be part of the solution instead of the problem or worse, turn a blind eye. I hope my thoughts even awaken ideas within others. The last four years of American history have been, in short, a flaming dumpster fire . I’m not going to list it all, it’s just socially and emotionally obscene. And there’s a lot of people out there who voted for Trump i...
I have to say, there have been times in my life when I have tried to express my choice to live as balanced, compassionate, and label-free as possible, and I have often been met with some pretty nasty opposition from any sides which choose to view themselves as defined by a label. That is no less true now, but now I see no choice but to act in accordance with some of these labels, and weather whatever opposition that comes my way as best as I can. And when I say that, let me clarify. Yes, I was born white, which gives me an opportunity not afforded to people who were not born white. I get that. And I've tried all my life not to abuse a privilege that I can't change. I can no more change my skin color than a person of another race can change theirs. So let's not let that be the issue. HOW people use that fact of biology is what makes the difference. When the numbers tell people with white skin that people of other skin colors - specifically dark ...