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Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
stop demoralizing!
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I had to answer some condescending crap that just appeared in my feed. I go through this shit, every damn YEAR! SHUT UP! quote: "Some of us have problems during the holidays and sometimes are overcome with great sadness when we remember the loved ones who are not with us and many people have no one to spend these times with and are besieged by loneliness. We all need caring thoughts and loving prayers right now. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. May I ask my friends wherever you might be to kindly copy, paste, and share this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind. and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of all my friends just for moral support. I know some will!! I did it for a friend and you can too!"
My reply: I JUST posted an announcement re: what people can do that would help. And I read this: "besieged by loneliness. " A total demoralization. I'm alone. I'm isolated. It's not a war; it's social injustice. I don't want pity. I want real support and respect. I'm not a charity case; I'm a wonderful human being who has been ostracized from society b/c of disabilities, sexual orientation and gender identity I can't help. I don't want prayers and happy thoughts; I want justice. And I don't want to be used as some "boogie man," so people will feel they at least escaped my circumstances. I'm not a poster child. Nothing in that status says anything about changing anything to make things better for those of us who've fallen through the cracks & been rejected by our culture. It just says, "be glad you're not them." Here's the status I just wrote: ATTENTION All non-MuriKKKans and unaMuriKKKans, I'm alone. It's cold. People r posting pics of families & friends & foods I can't afford. I didn't get much sleep b/c neighbor is in loud, manic phase. I don't want to get demoralized today, so please, send me really cool stuffs, so I don't feel so isolated. And I CERTAINLY don't want to feel deprived! Thanks!
I had to answer some condescending crap that just appeared in my feed. I go through this shit, every damn YEAR! SHUT UP! quote: "Some of us have problems during the holidays and sometimes are overcome with great sadness when we remember the loved ones who are not with us and many people have no one to spend these times with and are besieged by loneliness. We all need caring thoughts and loving prayers right now. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. May I ask my friends wherever you might be to kindly copy, paste, and share this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind. and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of all my friends just for moral support. I know some will!! I did it for a friend and you can too!"
My reply: I JUST posted an announcement re: what people can do that would help. And I read this: "besieged by loneliness. " A total demoralization. I'm alone. I'm isolated. It's not a war; it's social injustice. I don't want pity. I want real support and respect. I'm not a charity case; I'm a wonderful human being who has been ostracized from society b/c of disabilities, sexual orientation and gender identity I can't help. I don't want prayers and happy thoughts; I want justice. And I don't want to be used as some "boogie man," so people will feel they at least escaped my circumstances. I'm not a poster child. Nothing in that status says anything about changing anything to make things better for those of us who've fallen through the cracks & been rejected by our culture. It just says, "be glad you're not them." Here's the status I just wrote: ATTENTION All non-MuriKKKans and unaMuriKKKans, I'm alone. It's cold. People r posting pics of families & friends & foods I can't afford. I didn't get much sleep b/c neighbor is in loud, manic phase. I don't want to get demoralized today, so please, send me really cool stuffs, so I don't feel so isolated. And I CERTAINLY don't want to feel deprived! Thanks!
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Angelou Wept
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Are you weeping over the "kill" list? The drones over Pakistan & over US air space? Do you weep that a Monsanto CEO heads the FDA? Or that Wall Street controls every cabinet post, while our citizens are attacked by paramilitary forces for e
Are you weeping over the "kill" list? The drones over Pakistan & over US air space? Do you weep that a Monsanto CEO heads the FDA? Or that Wall Street controls every cabinet post, while our citizens are attacked by paramilitary forces for e
xercising
their right to free speech? Do you weep that global warming wasn't
mentioned in the Presidential debates? Do you weep that the only female
candidate for President was arrested for attempting to participate in
the debates? How moved are you by Guantanimo? Planning to write a
Hallmark card about perpetual war, Lockheed Martin? General Electric?
Halliburton? What happened to you, Angelou? Was being a real
revolutionary too hard? Or is all that fat money just too soft. When did
you turn into a lap dog? And why?
I
was grateful to see President Obama’s victory speech. I was over the
moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the
other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I
wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our
country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding.
Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each
other. Hallelujah!
Friday, November 09, 2012
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
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