No, Really I Do!

If you were to read one of my postings (pick one) you might come to the conclusion that I have set feelings about certain groups of folks.  This is true.  I simply love the group of people who are honest, hard-working, positive, responsible, patriotic, happy, and not filled with an excuse for every occasion.

Is that your group?  Great!  I love ya man!

I don’t like groups who label me and classify me without once ever meeting me or talking to me or knowing anything at all about me.  I’m sure you absolutely understand it is a possibility that when you do that to me then I just might, when I’ve had enough, do the same exact thing to you.  That’s fair isn’t it?

I don’t appreciate groups that hide behind some sort of conveniently constructed screen and then hurl all sorts of accusations with absolutely no allowance for a response, much less any actual debate.  Why are they afraid to debate on the facts and not the fiction?

There is always a reason for why people do what they do.  I tell my kids as they grow and learn that to understand some things, unfortunately most things these days, just follow the money.  From politics to education to healthcare to insurance to media to religion to sports- just follow the money to see what’s what.  Money may be evil but it sure as hell is revealing.

I hate groups that try to hold me personally responsible for acts committed at another time or in another place by people that may look like me or even in some extended way be related to me.  Again, are these accusers held to the same judgment?  Even with such high levels of competition they are perhaps the worst possible examples of what is wrong with our society

Can’t we all just get along?

I recently heard a quote on this:

“I simply love the group of people who are honest, hard-working, positive, responsible, patriotic, happy, and not filled with an excuse for every occasion.  Is that your group?  Great!  I love ya man!”

Not Winston-Churchill or A. Lincoln profound but right on nonetheless.  Wish I could meet the author.

So, no, sorry all you hard-luck groups:  I ain’t racist (are you?), I ain’t sexist (are you?), I ain’t homophobic (but I do not agree with gay marriage, or, rather, as blacks believe that they are the sole owners & purveyors of the race issue why shouldn’t heteros be the sole owners & purveyors of the marriage question?- we owned it first).  I am a bit of an Islamophobic though, I have to honestly admit, as it seems far more of them blow themselves and innocents up than any other group- is that incorrect?  That may be unfair but until it stops I find it hard to stop.

I’m sure that I am leaving some groups out and I apologize for that.  Maybe in a future posting.

Leave the excuses, grab some responsibility, join with those of us who don’t rely on color, or sex, or sexual preference, or religion, or nationality, or any other convenience to gain ground where our effort or ability fails to do so.

Come meet me and then look me in the eye and glance over at the mirror and then tell the truth about who the real guilty party is.

I’d like to think you’d be surprised but it is hard to hide from the truth forever.