koko wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 9:44 pm
I am Hispanic and despite having two college degrees and an excellent work record, I did not advance during my many years of working for the government. I trained many white employees and they got the promotions I applied for. This happened to me many times so I left the government. Never found any use for my 2 degrees. Today as a retiree in poor health, I survive on Social Security and SNAP.
We all suffer to some degree from the effects of racism. You more than most.
Tomorrow, George Floyd comes home to Houston.
Like other cities, there have been protest and support marches here.
Police Chief Acevedo took a knee, acknowledged
his support, and marched a short distance with one of the first protest marches. Other police officers followed his example.
Houston is quickly becoming a city where white people are no longer in the majority.
As a white guy, I'm totally unafraid of that.
If I could choose anyone in the United States to be our Chief of Police during this time, it would be Hubert Arturo Acevedo -- an American Hispanic.
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I think real change is possible this time, because of cell phone cameras.
It turns out that videos are mightierl than the sword.
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My political party abandoned me and my country in 2016.
You did everything correct, and are in poor health, surviving on Social Security. I am ashamed of, and disappointed with my country.
Thomas Jefferson wrote:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
No we do not!
Abe Lincoln wrote:We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We -- even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
We need to either truthfully become equal unto each other, or stop telling the lie!
We have an opportunity to change things in November of this year.
In the meantime, keep the batteries charged, and keep recording videos of abuses of power!
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)