AMERICA: THE REROUTE
Preamble: The Creator’s Diversity
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
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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 20: A Proclamation?
Some important things I’m going to announce in this digital edition of America: The ReRoute. First I want to proclaim my disappointment in the Republican Party jumping on Senator Katie Britt of Alabama. I kind of thought that was my job guys. Nevertheless, ‘PAUSE’, (A nurse at Lincoln Trail taught me that), your thievery of my crackbacks hit close to the mark on her atrocious performance, but it didn’t quite land the dismissal of her ‘verbal septic tank of remarks’ from a seasoned professional as I am.
Senator Britt, it was like she was chosen to clean the dung from the elephant enclosure that was left to sit out in the hottest summer month. All the while she was convinced of it being a promotion. Either she’s naïve or she actually believes she’s a guide to the zoo’s most sought after attraction.
What a pitiful sight to behold Senator Britt. She doesn’t even realize she was given the task of shoveling shit. She was just told where the shit was, and if she got lost just to follow her nose. The stupid part she doesn’t realize is she got played! Now if she knows she got played that’s a different story. Then her ‘D’ list attempt at play acting won’t get her agent a lot of calls for her acting skills.
Listen to me really good now. I’ve lived a few decades and am encouraged by the change happening in tough journalists. Kudos to G. Stephanopoulos for driving home intelligent fierce questioning. Again you know me. I don’t allow my stomach to be turned in the presence of women that try to skate by on their looks. ‘Equality starts behind the face!’ Let me hammer it deeper down. ‘EQUALITY STARTS BEHIND YO FACE!’ Women. Do you get me now?
Yes, I’m going back to Afghanistan. When we were on ‘clips’ and my driver was female; she knew I do not cut slack. I’m here to fight as a team, do my duties in excellence, take care of my soldiers and maintain their skills, and go home to my family. Her ability to perform her job to standard is what I stressed to her and all females. So, to see United States Representative Nancy Mace attempt to play victim was harmed all women. As a man should do, George Stephanopoulos treated her like a ‘man’. Nancy Mace wanted to run with the ‘big dogs’, so she can’t cower when she got ‘GROWLED’ at, fool!
Okay, back to these ‘EVANDEVICALS’. From the Authorized King James version of the Holy Bible. Saint John 16:1-3…These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me…
Put simply, all those so-called Christian Nationalists, and their ilk were never servants of God. I have always had deep doubts growing up as a child at my earliest stage of awareness. I just knew something wasn’t right. Whether my dad’s behavior along with the behavior of the people in the church we were forced to attend at every turn. I knew the power cord didn’t fit the outlet of God, metaphorically that is. It just never seemed to line up the things they said and the things they did.
That settles it. Now all my readers know I’m not your pastor, spiritual advisor, priest or deacon. I’m on a quest of knowledge. A spiritual journey for the truth while identifying all the stumbling blocks of charlatans along the way. Whether a politician claims priesthood or a priest claims political office. Either one of them or all of them doing evil you judge them according to God’s word. Not your word. God’s word while you’re 100% correct yourself. Not by what you say, but by an honest friend says it of you to your face!
Here’s the second and last thing for this post because I’m almost finished writing episode 4 of The Soul of Black Land and it’s good.
This is the job of a President of the United States. A President has to set the stage for all of us. Every citizen of America. It is not the job of the President to correct the mistakes or bad decisions of each and every American. If your life has turned out in ways that in your determination is failure, the fault lies with you! The President of the United States of America is not ‘YO’ Daddy!
Now, as usual, I’d like to share some personal history to be examined by everyone. I’ve been married 3 times and divorced 3 times. I’ve had a car repossessed. I’ve been kicked out of my 1st wife’s’ home as such been homeless for a week. She came and took the car at my job as she was primary owner. I had to borrow a friend of mine’s car to get home and run some errands. I’ve been cash strapped (how Black folks describe broke). All that said here’s the ‘reformation’ that came after that.
I rejoined the Alabama National Guard. I was able to save $1000 to put down on a car in my name only. I moved back in with my mom and paid her $150 a month rent. The opportunity came around again for me to join the U.S. Army active again while called up by the second President Bush. I stayed on active service and finished my 20 years on Army Reserve. I’m 100% VA disabled. I’m about to finish my Masters in Addiction Counseling. I’m owning my own home.
I’m a Black man that appreciates a President that sets the table for everyone to succeed. That’s all I’ve ever asked for. That’s all I will agree to. Others living on more unfortunate circumstances may need more help than me. Any politician can go around hearing the sob story of every ‘hard leg’ (what we call men in the Army) and assign blame for their choices onto somebody else. Whoever the politician is, Republican or Democrat, that says your choices are not your fault in this ‘time period’ doesn’t give a rat’s ass about you!
I mean there were times in America’s recent history a few decades back that ‘White Men’ actively sought to keep America’s promise solely for themselves. Instances of that happening now should be scarce. Should be, but are not. America is racist but some are willing to change, as some will not (probably never will) which is why no one can succeed without removing unjust barriers of evil. I said I hope she makes good, so don’t jump on me for being right where discrimination is true.
Look, let’s face it. We all have about 40 good years of dynamic labor in all of us that are relatively free of physical restrictions. (I know, only my loyal landcause.com readers picked up on the ‘physical’ and not restrictions on the ‘mental’ part of humanity). We, Americans, should be helping and teaching each other to shunt our most productive period to goal attainment. Hey, that’s all I’m saying. Now, this is important too. Just as in therapy, in life a person has to be willing to know the difference of an offer of help and an offer of harm. It is still an individual responsibility to as God put it, ‘discern both good and evil by exercise of your senses’.
As I’ve always said and will always say. ‘When is it YO fault?’ I chose to ‘mine’(dig out the blessings bestowed upon me) the gifts of writing and storytelling. I chose to stop resisting the philosophical leanings in my nature and acquire a Bachelors in Philosophy. I chose to immerse myself in the science of mental disorders.
Listen. ‘REFORMATION’ is a process like assembling many ingredients to make a cake. All those ingredients by themselves cannot be called a ‘cake’. Once they are combined and the process of transformation is allowed to occur. A ‘cake’ is the result in time. Use your ‘time’ how you see fit, but don’t assign responsibility for your choices and their outcomes onto an elected official. If you don’t know how to make a ‘cake’ then learn, or go and ask somebody that knows to teach you.
Arise, and think not just of yourself when you leave the door of your home. Proclaim that and watch your life start to come into focus with ‘good’ energy.