Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

This may sound really dumb but for the sake of making a point I will ask the question, which if some people are WOKE does that mean the rest are asleep or just brain dead? We hear of people making a big thing about the WOKE folk and every time we hear that comment it seems someone is putting their foot in their mouth.

  Just like the comment about “Time to get the country back on track and working for the good of the people and stopping the liberals”. Well last time I checked they were part of the population as well as the conservatives and should be allowed as much voice and choice as the other side of the street. So let us stop figuring out ways to make one party have more power than the other based on how we can redrawn a map to make sure voting allows an advantage for R over B.

  Fair and equal really should not depend on anything other than you are a citizen of the nation offering the treatment. It is hard to imagine that any emotion affects any particular group differently than it does another, whether that is winning the lottery or suffering the loss of a loved one. We may show emotion differently but it has an affect on all of us. If we are cut, do we not bleed? Blood types do not come with markers for all our differences, or at least I am not aware that they do. 

  What makes us so determined to find fault with one another? Most of that is passed to us by proceeding generations. It is not an inherited condition. Go into a daycare that has a diverse population and you will see the children playing and getting along just fine, especially the younger ones. When they get a little older and can begin to pick up on the biases of the parents then there begin to be problems because children learn from their parents. Do children overcome these issues, they can and oftentimes may if they have enough positive contact and do not see what the parents claim to have seen.

  Each of us deserves to meet for the first time with a clean slate. As that relationship evolves that slate should have at least 2 columns so that the positive as well as the negative are kept track of. Yes the fact is that most of us will keep track of the negative and overlook the positive. The one thing we should remember about this is that the other person is also running a tally on us and we don’t want negative comments either, or at least most of us don’t.

  This goes back to do unto others. Simple concept and a viable concept to live by and yet we look around and we see so much anger, so many people in horrible moods, and wonder why. Is there an easy answer to this problem? Very possibly there is, and that is that fair and equal treatment is not what some are willing to give and other will probably never get as long as we continue to believe that the color of our skin, our religion, our ethnic background, or any one of a hundred other reasons makes us better than our neighbor, it doesn’t, get over it.