AMERICA: THE REROUTE
Preamble: The Creator’s Diversity
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
Email: vemoseley@landcause.com
Blue Sky: vemoseley17.bsky.social
The ones who hold the power tell the story. The quote went something like that. Make peace with that truth and let’s move on to how power can wreck a weak mind. When the King eats from the same soil and drinks from the same pond how then did humankind conclude that denying these basic truths could unify us all? How the realization of what power brings to those that possess it can influence human beings that are weak of spirit.
When their spirit is enticed to commit acts of evil when those in power that are evil hearted require it of them. The Creator gifted his diverse creation carefully. The care he intended has been perverted by one race intent on maintaining their power instead of sharing it as we share the land, water and the air. America is that experiment. May I say it has never reached its full potential because she (Motherly pronoun) has never loved all her children.
Issue 23: Avoiding the Stairs Again
Out In Black: 19
I remember the days when I was racing home to call into a radio show to take a guess at whatever was the contest of the day to win some money. I remember when I lived in Mobile, Alabama traveling West to Biloxi, Mississippi to gamble. Again, trying to win money. Who can forget the heady days of Publishers Clearing House. All those magazines I ordered never dispatched a team with check in hand to my door. Oh, I saved the best for last. The Lottery was always the best odds at fulfilling that purpose of buying tickets to gain a better life.
The funny thing about wishing for a better life in the real world through each of the options I just mentioned is akin to grabbing air with my hands thinking I could inflate a balloon that way. It’s insane I know, but I made several attempts to do it all to no avail. The metaphor is applicable to my reasoning why I thought I could make a better life for myself through those means I mentioned above. It was all a ruse perpetrated against my gullible mind.
It seems Americans have always fallen for this stuff. The people with evil intent seduce you with simple reasons for your lack of success. These evil people never tell you the truth that it is your own fault that you can’t marshal the energy flowing inside to achieve tangible outcomes in your life. It is always somebody else’s fault for your failures. It works because it has always been easier for the simple minded among us to reject the facts that success takes sustained sufficient effort over time.
That’s why all those easy choices of spending a little bit of money for the chance to win big money always worked. Imagine that weighing on your heart day after day. Month after month. Year after year. Now imagine waking up one day and realize that you’re not living the life of avarice you knew you had coming. What do you think that would do to an average mind let alone a simple minded person? It would make you start to look for causes of your pathetic life away from a mirror.
This isn’t calculating the thrust it takes to escape Earth’s gravity. This is simple shit. If you have not achieved your dreams, goals, wishes or purpose you believe to be God’s plan, you are the only one at fault for that conclusion period. No one else. You! Your skin color may afford you certain privileges over other people, but you still have to make it on your own dime. Of course, everybody that has obtained success had some help.
May I conclude with this statement. Take the stairs. Put a plan together and start it. I want to make an announcement. When I started this website; I didn’t think I could do it. Writing scared me. I was stuck on how it could be done because I didn’t have blatant examples of Black people writing stories. I mean stories that I could reach out to and ask how they were doing it. I used to read the end credits of television shows to try and recognize some names I thought were Black folks.
Anyway, I want to express profound thanks and gratitude to every user who signs up and has signed up on www.landcause.com. Because of you, I have surpassed my goal of my first 100,000 users! I look forward to continuously providing the rich stories, unique takes on the issues of life, growth of the human condition and to champion good togetherness by calling out the good and the evil that could consume us all.
I believe the only way to the truth of reaching our better selves is to never shy away from inquiries. No matter how difficult the subject matter of those inquiries. As I have and will always say in my Mental Health: Equal Health periodical, ‘There are no off limits questions in Mental Health’.
If you cannot handle the discussion, step away or step back, but the question must be addressed period.
Be well. All my people.