Day 137: Response to your wisdom, Ayodeji Awosika
First off, I want to thank you because you said it much more eloquently than I. I have been saying some of these things on FB, as well, but I am not a black person, albeit, a darker white woman. I’ve never been to Nigeria, but have friends who have, and I’ve watched my YouTube videos to learn about how others live. I believe I am right when I say, you are either rich, or you are poor with no in between, at least of the videos I’ve watched about Lagos. If you are poor, you are scrounging through trash piles for whatever you can find, for whatever use it gives. If you are rich, you don’t even see the poor. No person here has ever actually lived through slavery, and even our poorest people in America live much more richly than some of those living in Africa.
What African Americans, IMHO, don’t realize is that they are living in a different form of slavery by accepting all the government hand-outs, and are being used by a political party that is keeping them there with these hand-outs, and lowering test scores, and keeping them in a victim personification. Then, no personal responsibility or self-improvement is needed, because “they” told me I am oppressed — the white American capitalistic 1% group. I DO believe that there are some extremely wealthy people that are feeding these lies, fueling this anger, and using them, and others, for pawns. That to me is racism by saying you can’t do it on your own, because what…? too dumb? too ignorant? too uneducated? too poor with no chance of making a decent living? (and now schools are closed).
Let them go to Nigeria for awhile and live and see what poverty is, no education, just praying you can feed your family for one more day, or even just feed yourself a meal. All this destruction did in America was throw more people into a state of lack, and some of them will not recover. THAT isn’t racism? Or, because they didn’t care about skin color and just destroyed whole neighborhoods and means of supply, that means they WEREN’T racist?
You were spot on, Ayodeji. You are a very wise and gifted man and that is why I follow you, here. Not just on this subject, but on many self raising and self creating thoughts and ideas. I am glad to have met you on Medium. I am sick of people bashing and hating America, we are good people, most of us.
One thing I was reminded of today, in a LMA Life Mastery Achievers course on moving limiting beliefs to empowering yourself, was a story of Derek Redmond, in Barcelona Olympics in 1992, a black man who was running a 400 meter race. 150 meters in, he tore his hamstring and crumbled on the ground in agony. I’ve torn my hamstring before and it is excruciating to tears, and the healing can take a very long time, mine took two years.
Derek was committed to his task. He got back up and started to limp run towards the finish line. You could see the pain in his whole body (I watched the video). His dad broke through the security which tried to hold him back but he made it to his son. He told his son that he didn’t have to do this, but Derek said, yes, he did. He and his dad limp ran with their arms around each other, so his dad could hold him up.
Closer to the finish line, his dad let him go on by himself. The tears and crying and agony in Derek’s face brought me to tears, myself, just watching the video, but I felt pride in watching this man achieve. Not because he was black but because he showed a whole lot of people that even in adversity, you can accomplish your goals. Nothing holds you back but your own mindset.
Derek finished and was rewarded with 65,000 people giving him a standing ovation. That’s commitment. That’s not blaming his skin color on not finishing and feeling sorry for himself, even though he had a good reason to drop out.
It angered me when I heard the other day that our ‘professional’ athletes weren’t going to play sports because of the whole racist thing. Many of them are black, and worth multi millions, live in lavish homes and have continuous personal trainers around them every day. And, yet, they call out racism??
I expect this out of white Hollywood, and wonder if they are doing their ‘thing’ right now so that they don’t lose fans. I don’t mean that they might not care, as I am sure many of them do. But, all of a sudden it matters to them? All of a sudden the Confederate statues ‘matter’ to certain people in politics, after being in politics for over 30 years? Are these people just hoping that no one comes to their towns and burns them down, but it’s ok if they came to ours? And, much of our country was shut down and people lost businesses due to the ‘quarantine and isolation’ yet the massive amount of people blocking streets in crowds and for miles, is ok because of this movement and revolution? Fuck the virus. Well, if the number of COVID illnesses rise, we know who to blame. Much of the looting is caught on camera, too.
I don’t even know what to say anymore, and I will leave it to the powers that can bring these criminals to justice. I, too, have been looked at as if I don’t care about people because I am trying to follow God’s laws in loving ALL people. It’s been challenging, for sure, but Jesus commands that of me if I am to follow Him, because I want a relationship with Him.
I would NOT be in the healing vocation if I didn’t care about people. It makes me a decent living, at times, but I’m surely not in it because it is making me rich. How would it be if doctors and nurses chose political sides, or followed the movement of the times, and refused to treat a patient because they were on the other side of their beliefs, but your life depended on it? If you were a black person and needed blood and the only blood available was from a white person, or vice versa, would you refuse to accept the blood? Would you ask if the blood you were receiving was from a cop? And, if so, would you rather die than receive it?
Satan is having a field day. God will be the One who overrules.
