A racist religious bigot and my response…

I received this asking what my thought was on the matter…

Subject: Fw: Fwd: Time IS LIKE A RIVER

Subject:  Time IS LIKE A RIVER

This is just awful to have to accept this new order of life in the USA.

Worth pondering and sending on to others….

TIME IS LIKE A RIVER

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida a few weeks back when he said America will not come back. He wrote:

The American Dream ended (on November 6th, 2012 ) in Ohio . The second term of Barack Obama will be the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest Republic in the history of mankind.

A coalition of Blacks, Latinos, Feminists, Gays , Government Workers, Union Members, Environmental Extremists, The Media, Hollywood , uninformed young people, the “forever needy,” the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other “fellow travelers” have ended Norman Rockwell ‘s America . The Cocker Spaniel is off the front porch… The Pit Bull is in the back yard. The American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky ‘s “Rules for Radicals” and Chicago shyster, David Axelrod , along with international Socialist George Soros will be pulling the strings on their beige puppet to bring us Act 2 of the New World Order.

Our side ran two candidates who couldn’t even win their own home states, and Chris Christie helped Obama over the top with a glowing “post Sandy ” tribute that elevated the “Commander-in-Chief” to Mother Teresa status. (Aside: with the way the polls were run, he didn’t need any help!) People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will never again comment on or concern myself with the afore mentioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.

You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take Zealots, not moderates & shy not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status.

Those who come after us will have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to “white guilt” and political correctness… An American Veteran……… Semper-Fi

Got the guts to pass it on? You betcha!!!!!

…and my response…

I find the ignorance, sexism, racism and bigotry inherent with such deluded thought is dangerous, counter to a productive and healthy future. This is the type of thinking that is the birth of such institutions as right wing National Socialists Parties that formalize fascism and bring it to fruition. Often through subversive suggestions of violence that lead to actual violence – and regularly to the rape, murder, torture, and related horrors that white people have ushered upon minorities in America since shortly after our arrival here.

I find statements like this email that was forwarded grossly ignoring the violence committed against the natives (i.e. the Indians) of North America and ignores the ongoing violence and system institutionalized violence and oppression of minorities here. From red-lining, to Jim Crow laws, to other such nonsense I’m surprised honestly that black persons of America haven’t risen up even more and committed MORE violence against white America. I’m shocked that latinos haven’t stood against, rallied, and destroyed white control of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities. Meanwhile the black, Latino, and other individuals slave away at the behest of abusive power dynamics that the white Americans sit atop in this country. White Americans ignore and pretends there is no such things as white privilege. In the meantime talking themselves up while this country was built on the backs of what was entirely minority populations for most of the existence of this nation. Meanwhile the minority populates are left with little, having been overwhelmed by western European styles of capitalism, etc and little to go on for generations. White Americans did a lot of building this nation, but our neglect and unbiased, unconscious, and related cognitive dissonance around our racist declarations of self-made men is disingenuous at best and outright insulting to many of those that did much of the work to build this country.

Now we stand at a time where white man on the continent isn’t always the vast majority, is losing a little bit of our political power, is ceding some to women as women of all races take more control of their place in our society, white man has an ebbing influence of strength and every racist, bigot, and angry person clings to the likes of Trump and Franklin Graham in their shortsighted, public school limited and skewed history education. Many of this old guard follow complete fabrications, false data and ramble on about nonsense as in the previous email. Their America is falling apart, their America is slowly dying. Good riddance to their America, I barely want to live in the one that exists let alone their hate filled, racist, bigot filled idea of what an ideal America is.

The new America will have less wealth, and less white influence, and overall will have more transparency over time and more openly socialist practices. We’ve already had many socialist practices so they aren’t so new (most purported and created by Republicans which is a perverse irony: i.e. Interstate System, corporate welfare, etc). We’ll have children that are more open to being friends with the Indian kid, the black kid, the Latino kid, and they won’t immediately assume – as any open and freshly minded child would be. They’re not born racist. These children are our future, even as we’ve built and will leave then a sick and dying planet. They’ll be the ones who truly have to take hold and right this ship – called Earth – if they want to and their offspring want to survive into the future. There is no mars or the moon to run off to, there is no second planet. We’re on this one and we’ll have to make do. As the population continues to increase however, people are forced to deal with the reality that we’re all from one, we are a human species. Being black or white or whatever is a completely naive and ignorant delineation. The sooner we realize that, accept that we have to develop technology to live cleaner, better, more open and transparent lives, the better off we and our children and children’s children will be.

Personally, I see children today, in Scandinavia, Portland, San Francisco, and New York (the places I’ve visited recently) and realize that the future does look brighter than it sometimes seems on a day to day basis. But seeing the old guard of the racist, bigot filled demographic lose their political power makes me realize we, humanity, our children’s children, i.e. my children and your grandchildren and others’ grandchildren and children of today – might have a great and happy future in spite of all the horrors the current, immediately previous, and past generations have visited upon them.

That’s what I think of that letter from Franklin Graham. Considering the United States fought a war against bigots and racists like Franklin Graham, he can’t lose his power fast enough. It’s a shame people like that even spew their hatred outward and have it embodied in words puked up by people like Franklin Graham. They are indeed sick and horrid people, the people moving the world forward today really don’t need this kind of thing, it is a waste of our resources and time.

That is all.