Marcy Catsavis Acord
" I listened as they called my President a Muslim (as if it were a bad thing). I listened as they called him a monkey. I listened as they said he wasn't born here. I watched as they blocked every single path to progress that they could. I saw the pictures of him as Hitler. I listened as they openly said that they will oppose him at every turn. I watched as they did just that. I listened and I watched and I paid attention. Now, I'm being called on to be tolerant. To move forward. To "Get over it." To accept this...
I will not. I will do my part to make sure this great American mistake becomes the embarrassing footnote of our history that it deserves to be, as quickly as possible. I will do my part to limit the damage that this man can do to my country. I will vote. I will watch his every move and point out every single mistake and misdeed in a loud and proud voice. Do not call for my tolerance. I've tolerated all I can. Now it's their turn to tolerate ridicule. Be aware, make no mistake about it, every single thing that goes wrong in our country from this day forward is now Trump's fault just as much as they thought it was Obama's. I find it unreasonable for them to expect from me what they were entirely unwilling to give.
They will find no shelter here.
All.... Of.... This.....
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
This is my life
Sometimes I wonder how I can explain how I feel to every audience and get them all to understand me. I know it will not be easy but I must try..
Have you ever gotten into a pool and the water is really really cold so you have to immerse yourself a little at a time? Well that is a pretty accurate description of part of my life..
A little over a year ago I became a new mom to a thirteen year old girl who had spent most of her life mistreated. (I will blog about that more later) It was 100% unexpected but absolutely the best thing that has happened to me..
She just so happens to be black...
I am a white middle aged woman and though I have indeed dated and even married outside my race. Having a child a different color than you is a whole new ball game. You don't realize until you love a child the impact that has on your life. Even though I have been around black people all my life and I have mostly lived my life very diverse until I had a child that I needed to protect I did not realize how divided America still is.
I feel like I have one leg in the white world and one leg in the black world. I constantly feel torn in two. That may not be the best explanation but it's the only one I can come up with to make others understand how I feel. I love being White I've never been anything else I didn't have a choice the day I was born I was born to White parents. That means that I was raised with privilege I didn't know what privilege was for many years. When people talk about privilege I think they think money, I used to think they meant money I don't anymore. Most people have the misconception that privilege is about money they think that being privileged means you're rich and that's not the case at all.
Privilege means you live your life unaware of how race affects your life. Privilege is when you don't consider for a second being killed when you are pulled over for speeding ticket. We live our lives a certain way as white people that black people are not allowed to it's not fair it's not right but it is our reality. Many of us know this now in our older years where we had no clue when we were younger.
I have lived my life in a very secluded and naive manner.
I have no clue how to reach the masses... I wish I did...
All I do know is I have to keep speaking because I need the world safe and equal for my child...
When I read that people shouldn't commit crimes and they wouldn't get shot I am amazed at the stupidity in that statement. We are constantly breaking small little laws in America we speed we run stop signs we run red lights. If you believe that a person who does this deserves to be shot and killed I think there's something wrong with the basics of your morals. We have something called due process in America and we need to start using it more. Are all the cases of police brutality in recent years dealing with an innocent man I don't know probably not but that doesn't mean they deserved to die. They deserved to be captured go to trial and be convicted and spend their life in jail. But many times the police are taking it upon themselves to be judge, jury, and executioner.... That simply can not be the status quo... THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.....
I don't want to lose all my friends I want us all to be able to come to the understanding that we should all be equal and free in America. Do you REALLY believe the playing field is equal? If you do maybe you should really go back and read our history books... Yes slavery ended a long time ago... That mentality however did not... Less that 80 years ago black people were still segregated from white... Yes we have come a very long way, that doesn't mean our work is done... Go read any thread on social media about not standing for the anthem and you can read some pretty vile stuff... People like Donald Trump feed on those small minded racist minds and we need to shut them down...
As long as I have breath in this body I will fight for my child to have the same life I had.. until we can walk through Walmart without someone wrenching their neck to stare at us, until we can sit at a restaurant without people staring at us the whole meal, until we just become a family not a freak show, I will continue... I hope to open some of those small minds along the way.... But if I don't that's OK too....
I will keep blogging and speaking out until there is no longer a need...
God Bless.....
Onelove
~~Robbie~~
Sometimes I wonder how I can explain how I feel to every audience and get them all to understand me. I know it will not be easy but I must try..
Have you ever gotten into a pool and the water is really really cold so you have to immerse yourself a little at a time? Well that is a pretty accurate description of part of my life..
A little over a year ago I became a new mom to a thirteen year old girl who had spent most of her life mistreated. (I will blog about that more later) It was 100% unexpected but absolutely the best thing that has happened to me..
She just so happens to be black...
I am a white middle aged woman and though I have indeed dated and even married outside my race. Having a child a different color than you is a whole new ball game. You don't realize until you love a child the impact that has on your life. Even though I have been around black people all my life and I have mostly lived my life very diverse until I had a child that I needed to protect I did not realize how divided America still is.
I feel like I have one leg in the white world and one leg in the black world. I constantly feel torn in two. That may not be the best explanation but it's the only one I can come up with to make others understand how I feel. I love being White I've never been anything else I didn't have a choice the day I was born I was born to White parents. That means that I was raised with privilege I didn't know what privilege was for many years. When people talk about privilege I think they think money, I used to think they meant money I don't anymore. Most people have the misconception that privilege is about money they think that being privileged means you're rich and that's not the case at all.
Privilege means you live your life unaware of how race affects your life. Privilege is when you don't consider for a second being killed when you are pulled over for speeding ticket. We live our lives a certain way as white people that black people are not allowed to it's not fair it's not right but it is our reality. Many of us know this now in our older years where we had no clue when we were younger.
I have lived my life in a very secluded and naive manner.
I have no clue how to reach the masses... I wish I did...
All I do know is I have to keep speaking because I need the world safe and equal for my child...
When I read that people shouldn't commit crimes and they wouldn't get shot I am amazed at the stupidity in that statement. We are constantly breaking small little laws in America we speed we run stop signs we run red lights. If you believe that a person who does this deserves to be shot and killed I think there's something wrong with the basics of your morals. We have something called due process in America and we need to start using it more. Are all the cases of police brutality in recent years dealing with an innocent man I don't know probably not but that doesn't mean they deserved to die. They deserved to be captured go to trial and be convicted and spend their life in jail. But many times the police are taking it upon themselves to be judge, jury, and executioner.... That simply can not be the status quo... THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.....
I don't want to lose all my friends I want us all to be able to come to the understanding that we should all be equal and free in America. Do you REALLY believe the playing field is equal? If you do maybe you should really go back and read our history books... Yes slavery ended a long time ago... That mentality however did not... Less that 80 years ago black people were still segregated from white... Yes we have come a very long way, that doesn't mean our work is done... Go read any thread on social media about not standing for the anthem and you can read some pretty vile stuff... People like Donald Trump feed on those small minded racist minds and we need to shut them down...
As long as I have breath in this body I will fight for my child to have the same life I had.. until we can walk through Walmart without someone wrenching their neck to stare at us, until we can sit at a restaurant without people staring at us the whole meal, until we just become a family not a freak show, I will continue... I hope to open some of those small minds along the way.... But if I don't that's OK too....
I will keep blogging and speaking out until there is no longer a need...
God Bless.....
Onelove
~~Robbie~~
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