RACISM

Today I would like to speak a little about racism. Its out there. I would wager that you see it everyday. While your at lunch look around. Take in your surroundings observe the groups around you, are they multicultural groups? The good news is, some will be, mostly due to education. Just to make sure we all understand exactly how ignorant we can be I have listed
SOME DEFINITIONS I FOUND TO DEFINE THE WORD RACISM

1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

I love this part, because it shows exactly how ignorant we as the human race can really be. Reading the definition's for racism you will see the word race many times. Actually you would have a hard time defining the word racism without using the word race. I was brought up with a racist mentality. Luckily as I grew older I was intelligent enough, educated enough, loving/loved enough, and curious enough to realize the faults in that line of thinking. I have come to realize as I hope all that read this already understands or will after reading the next few sentence's. There is only one race the human race. Ounce again I turn to the simplest of tools to better understand our situation "EDUCATION" below are the definitions for the word race, and to prove my point listed below each un-doctered definition from the dictionary, I will try and guide you through or reinforce the belief in ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE.

RACE

1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.

"A FRENCHMEN BORN IN SOUTH AFRICA IS FRENCH, AFRICAN, OR HUMAN?"

2. a population so related.

"IS THE POPULATION IN MIAMI A DIFFERENT RACE THAN THE POPULATION IN NEW JERSEY?"

3. Anthropology.

a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.

"A DEFINITION SO IGNORANT IT IS NO LONGER IN TECHNICAL USE AS PHRASED ABOVE"

b. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.

"PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SO IF I AM TALLER THAN YOU I AM ALSO A DIFFERENT RACE?"
"BLOOD GROUPS; O+ & A+ PEOPLE ARE TWO DIFFERENT RACES?"

c. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.

"TAKE FLORIDA AND TEXAS FOR EXAMPLE THEY ARE PARTIALLY ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER BY THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND FLORIDA HAS A MUCH HIGHER POPULATION OF OLDER HUMANS THAN TEXAS ARE THEY DIFFERENT RACES?"

4.a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.

"DOES THAT MEAN THERE IS A AMERICAN RACE, AND A CANADIAN RACE?"

5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.

"OUNCE AGAIN DOES THAT MEAN THERE IS A AMERICAN RACE, AND A CANADIAN RACE?"

6. the human race or family; humankind: Nuclear weapons pose a threat to the race.

The answer to the questions above are in the last listed definition. There is only one human race. Racism is an ideal born from our ignorance we have all been guilty of, and we should all do our best to let it go. So I challenge you to challenge yourself and your neighbors to make this a better world worthy of the future of our race!

Abortion

As much as I would like to give my personal opinion on this subject I cannot. All personal/religious beliefs cannot be imposed on the hole society. You can reflect on my first blog NO GRAY LINE when speaking of people in a vegetable like state. It is up to the woman and her inner circle to weigh all the implications of there situation to make the right morale decision, and not our place to interfere as a society.

AN EXPLANATION:

The facts our clear. It is wrong to take a life. It is also wrong to produce a life of neglect.

We should concentrate on the problem, and the problem is not that we as a people have the ability to abort a child. The problem is women that allow themselves to be put in the situation to have to make such decisions. For example; a woman finds herself in a uncontrollable circumstance and must decide if she should sacrifice her life, or the baby's; we would not be so fast to judge her. With that being said the woman that does not want a child, and still finds herself having three abortions a year is a murderer.

Solution:

We as parents except the fact that as a hole we are failing to educate our children in many manners to include the importance of safe sex, and the responsibilities that come with sexual maturity. We should expect our children to receive an education at school, but we as parents should ensure the upbringing of that child is such that he/she excepts all responsibilities that come with such sexual maturity.

As always I challenge all of you to challenge me and your neighbors to do whats right.

Moral Character

Thanks for your comments. Today I would like to delve into Moral Character. Which in my words would be a particular individuals moral qualities. Qualities being a variety of attributes or lack of such as Honor, Courage, Commitment, etc...... To better understand someone with a Strong Moral Character we need to except a lesson from our brothers in arms and take a good hard look at these attributes that make up such a person.
Honor-Honesty- Worth and stature based on the harmony of ones actions.
Courage-Fortitude- the ability to confront fear, pain, risk/danger, uncertainty, intimidation, or physical pain, hardship, and death.
Commitment- being bound to a course of action, person, persons, or COUNTRY:
Boiling down to Moral Courage-Integrity- the ability to do what is right because its right. "NO OTHER REASON"
Reading these attributes with an open and honest heart can be very sobering when reflecting on our own lives. To get to my point I would have to disagree with your statement that the problem is the people in our country with High Moral Character choose to remain silent, because someone with just such a character could not remain silent. There honor would demand action, there courage would provide them the ability, and there commitment would make them confront all issues officially.

With that being said the next problem is that those of us that due except our duty as a Morale Juggernaut end up DEAD. I think every American has a little Morale DNA when it comes to our country. Sometimes it takes a leader to spark a Morale Infection to spread across our land and infect us with the ability to "LETS FACE IT" pull our heads out of our ass's AKA "ENTERTAINMENT" just long enough to notice something is not right and have the Moral Character to make a change. If nothing else just in our own lives as individuals. At the cost of sounding cliche one person always makes a difference. So I ask all the readers out there to challenge yourself and me to make our country and daily lives better by not compromising what is right.

No Gray Line

"NO GRAY LINE" The gray line I am referring to is that blurry area we as a society sometimes choose to live between "RIGHT AND WRONG" or as occasionally referred to as "BLACK AND WHITE". As you might have guessed I do not be leave in a gray area between the two which I refer to as "THE GRAY LINE" We forget that there is only right, and wrong. Sometimes we have accepted the wrongs, and rights brought on us as individuals, and even as a country knowing that we have attained such attributes at the cost of our morale character. I am aware that such a thing as morale character, and a common good are derived from ones upbringing and may differ. Differences are what made our great nation so strong in the past, but for us to prosper peacefully we need to take another look at what we consider a common good. We as a a country cannot decide if a person in a vegetable state is dead or alive (I MEAN WHAT OTHER QUESTION IS THERE). Our elected officials cannot even decide on what facts are the correct facts to make decisions on. Which brings me to my point Dead:1 : deprived of life : no longer alive, if there is a pulse they are still alive. If we decide to pull the plug on the individual that is a different question, one that can only be answered by the vegetables loved ones and should not be judged by others out side of that inner circle. Facts are facts our elected officials divide which portion of a fact they wish to use to follow there own agendas or they are error-ed in there system of accumulating such facts. Simply put one or both are ling. So I ask all the readers out there to challenge yourself and me to make our country and daily lives better by not compromising what is right.