Hello.
This is my first blog, so please forgive me if I stumble.
I'm just writing my thoughts, because it's always a great outlet to voice your opinion on things that matter to you or feel the need to be heard or for this case read.
No matter what happens in life we all want to be comfortable.
We want the best for ourselves and we want the best for our kids, because that's what society affords us the opportunity to do.
But when life knocks you down, how do you react? Do you let yourself get knocked down, or do you fight because it's the right thing to do?
When you take the good with the bad, you more often then not learn how do adapt to situations that will come about in your life.
The old saying goes. "That God doesn't put more us that we can't handle", which is true, but also you have to look yourself in the mirror and figure out why is it that I have so much that is placed upon me. Well maybe because God knows your strengths better then you do and you don't realize how much you can deal with until it's presented before you.
Sometimes life teaches us about ourselves. It teaches us how to be and what path not to take.
There is always and will be a difference between people in their political views, raising of kids, religion, love, and in life.
But how can we all be on one accord if everyone has so many different thoughts and opinions about things?
Why is it that the pledge of allegiance is not allowed in school? Or should I say why was God taken out?
Why is that when President Obama wanted to speak with the children of America about staying in school. That all of the parents refused or felt that he was trying to send a message of hate and to be disrespectful to your family and become a welfare dropout?
When all he wanted to do was send a positive message about the importance of getting a good education and that the sky's the limit when you get a good education and that you learn to grow and respect people around you. Was it because the parents felt that Obama, being a black man was a bad influence? Really. Grow up. If anyone, I would have wanted President Obama to speak with today's' youth, then our previous President who muffled every word that came out of his mouth.
We live in a society where we thought we have overcome racism to a certain degree, when in actuality we haven't. And it's starting to rear it's ugly head now that America has a black commander in chief.
People stop being so damn sensitive.
Before I go. I just wanted to say thank you for those that took the time out to read my first entry and I hope that you took away something. Even if it wasn't much. Until I decide to write again.
Peace and blessings
You didn’t stumble at all!! Great post!!
ReplyDeleteI was going to post about the Obama school speech on my own blog and couldn’t find the words to describe my feelings then. You wound a sistah up with this post! LOL
As a mother, I had to fill out permission slips for both of my children to be “allowed” to hear the President’s speech. Doesn’t that seem odd to anyone else? I wonder if he were his predecessor would that same form would have been required? I guess we will never know the answer to that question but it bothered me sooo much. I mean this is our PRESIDENT!! What EXACTLY did these protestors think he was going to say? Bring up the health care situation to our children? I mean come on now...
His message was: 1. Stay in school, 2. You can be whatever you want to be and 3. We (teacher, parents, Obama) are counting on you to make a positive difference in your community and in your country. What is wrong with that? NOTHING!! Those are the same words that we as parents should be teaching our children anyway! It’s pitiful that our President have to doing the job that so many parents aren’t doing themselves! Is that what they were protesting? They were embarrassed that the President is teaching their children something that they should have instilled in their OWN children long ago?? PUHLEASE (Okay… Maybe I will write about this!! LOL)