old marine wrote:
Floyd you shock me with your r****t comment. br b... (
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I am an old white male.
I have viewed life now in to my 82nd year.
I have had a good life.
I am well aware of the role my whiteness played in it all.
It is the actions of some white males that caused great harm to others through out history.
Because of that there is much unrest in the world we each face today.
We can not undo the past .
We can only see that many things that have happened in the past do not continue to happen.
To delay in undertaking the steps need will only delay what could be done.
The control of what needs to be done if we wish to hold on to much of our personal well being.
Adjustments in how things are done has to take place.
We can be a part of these actions.
Or some one else may make the adjustments that we may not want.
It is only a waste of our personal efforts to try to hang on to all of what we had.
We need to adapt to what will be.
If we wish to have & keep as much of what we have now.
We need to take the lead in saving what we can of our way of life.
The surest way is to see that others will have the opportunities & obligations we lived with.
If we do that we will save most of what we have & wish to keep.
To deny others of what we have is to deny what is basic to our life's.
We deny logic & common sense.
It is only with a system that allows all individuals freedoms.
That can insure any one's individual freedom.
As a crusty old marine having reached this time in your life.
Your life must have been lived with a set of sound moral principles.
I would like to think that you can & will cope with what ever comes your way.
Neither of use needs what Trump has to offer us.
To be who we really are.
MAGNA is what the white male was.
What the white male was is what MAGNA WAS.
Most of us personally were not those white males.
As so many have looked at all b****s as being bad because of some b****s.
Some look at all w****s as being a part of the bad that has taken place in the world.
No matter how you look at it you are looking at it as a r****t issue.
It don't mean that any one in & of them self is r****t.
I don't know if that cleared up the issue or not.
But as individuals wishing to be a vital part in the world around us.
We do need to have as clear a picture.
Of what is taking place as we face the issues around us.
I just put it all down as just another day in our life's.
That we will just take in stride.
As we face more unknow things tomorrow.
I think the message we both need to give is :
That we both faced what life gave us.
We are still here to talk about it.
We all have tomorrows.
Some with more that others.
We each need to be at our best to meet the problems we face.
The more others we have in our life's it makes the tasks easier.