Both Republicans and Democrats alike, were speechless after learning that Sen. John McCain had brain cancer, the same brain cancer that took the lives of former Sen. Edward Kennedy, and Beau Biden. This type is inoperable and incurable.
There was a Facebook video going around, which shows a town hall during the 2008 campaign, where a racist white woman says she didn't trust Obama because he was a Muslim. McCain defends Obama and says he isn't, and white liberals retweeted that video on my Twitter timeline no less than a thousand times. Mention John McCain's name and all you hear about is his decorated war history and his five year stint as a POW. His courage and valor.
I am saying miss me with all of that bullshit!
This is the man who unleashed Sarah Palin on us. Out of all of the smart, capable women in this country who he could have chosen as his running mate, he chose the dumbest one that he could find, and like a bad infection, she and her brand of stupid will not go away. I blame him for giving that idiot a platform in the first place.
Remember John McCain has been an elected official since 1982, and 99.9% percent of the time, he has voted for programs, which royally screwed over black and brown people, stripped women of their rights to agency over their own bodies, and cut spending to programs that largely service the poor.
He also voted against the MLK holiday bill. Who doesn't think Dr. King deserves a holiday, other than a two bit racist?
Even as we speak, our elected officials are voting on a bill to repeal Obamacare, a move, which could strip over 22 million people of their healthcare. Mind you Sen. McCain just got out of the hospital, out of intensive care, not even physically capable of doing a full day's work, just to vote and strip millions of their healthcare, while receiving a six figure salary, and top of the line healthcare, at your taxpayer expense.
So you can have empathy for John McCain and his cancer battle, but your can also take his racist ass to task for voting for and supporting programs, which screw you as a black or brown person, women, and other marginalized groups over, in his quest to remain loyal to a party, which believes that political party affiliation is more important than the basic needs and rights of the country's citizens.
I choose instead to save my empathy for my neighbors, friends, and family, who are battling cancer without the six figure taxpayer salaries and government and taxpayer funded healthcare.
Until next time....
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Being Mary Jane and the Power of Choice
If you haven't watched this week's episode of Being Mary Jane, you might want to stop reading right now!
If you have, then you know Mary Jane wrecked her relationship with the "good guy" Lee for a fling with the bad boy/corporate asshole Justin.
Viewers clutched pearls, screamed at their televisions, and called her every name in the book. Because as a 40 year old black woman, people feel that if you have a good relationship, that you should stay in it for the long hall, that you should settle, in other words, be damned if you as a grown ass woman decides to make decision, which doesn't jell with what everyone else wants for your life.
This made me think about a few things!
I don't think Mary Jane wants a husband and baby. Those are things society has told her, and all of us who happen to be over 30, unmarried, and childless, that we should desire. I can't tell you the number of friends and relatives, male and female alike, who have placed themselves in long term relationships, marriages, refused to get divorced, had children that they didn't want, because society told them that this was the next step, or that they were at an age where this needed to happen.
Instead of doing what their hearts desired, which is to remain single and childless, they placed themselves in these impossible situations or drove themselves crazy because they didn't have these things, instead of telling these folks to mind their business. The truth is some of the very folks judging you, and trying to get you hitched and with child, are miserable, and misery loves company, so they want you to be as miserable as they are.
Even Jesus said that he wanted us to have life, and have it more abundantly, and sometimes that includes a spouse and children, and sometimes that means being eternally unattached.
The older I become, the more happy unattached I am. I am not a loser, less than, or a failure. I am happy, at peace, and fulfilled.
The overall thing for the fictional character Mary Jane, and anyone over 30 to remember is, life is short. Not matter whether you have 50 or 100 years, live your best life, even if that means going against the grain. You will make bad decisions; we all do, but a decision doing what you want to do, regardless of public opinion and without worrying about public opinion, is much easier to deal with than one made, trying to live for others' approval.
Just some food for thought!
Until next time....
If you have, then you know Mary Jane wrecked her relationship with the "good guy" Lee for a fling with the bad boy/corporate asshole Justin.
Viewers clutched pearls, screamed at their televisions, and called her every name in the book. Because as a 40 year old black woman, people feel that if you have a good relationship, that you should stay in it for the long hall, that you should settle, in other words, be damned if you as a grown ass woman decides to make decision, which doesn't jell with what everyone else wants for your life.
This made me think about a few things!
I don't think Mary Jane wants a husband and baby. Those are things society has told her, and all of us who happen to be over 30, unmarried, and childless, that we should desire. I can't tell you the number of friends and relatives, male and female alike, who have placed themselves in long term relationships, marriages, refused to get divorced, had children that they didn't want, because society told them that this was the next step, or that they were at an age where this needed to happen.
Instead of doing what their hearts desired, which is to remain single and childless, they placed themselves in these impossible situations or drove themselves crazy because they didn't have these things, instead of telling these folks to mind their business. The truth is some of the very folks judging you, and trying to get you hitched and with child, are miserable, and misery loves company, so they want you to be as miserable as they are.
Even Jesus said that he wanted us to have life, and have it more abundantly, and sometimes that includes a spouse and children, and sometimes that means being eternally unattached.
The older I become, the more happy unattached I am. I am not a loser, less than, or a failure. I am happy, at peace, and fulfilled.
The overall thing for the fictional character Mary Jane, and anyone over 30 to remember is, life is short. Not matter whether you have 50 or 100 years, live your best life, even if that means going against the grain. You will make bad decisions; we all do, but a decision doing what you want to do, regardless of public opinion and without worrying about public opinion, is much easier to deal with than one made, trying to live for others' approval.
Just some food for thought!
Until next time....
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