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Thought For Food © 2016
Samuel K
theblacksilentmajority SM
Don’t like Trump? Do something about it.
If everyone who protested, tweeted, posted, or expressed negative views about Donald Trump’s presidential aspiration actually voted against him, he would lose the November election in a landslide. But we must vote people. Talk is cheap.
Also, Trump may be our number one target, but don’t simply vote for Hillary and call it a day. She will need a more progressive Congress to appoint more progressive judges to the US Supreme Court, to pass apprentice programs, to pass infrastructive programs, etc. Be politically smart and vote the entire ballot and don’t forget to vote for local representatives and judges. The local candidates are just as important as the national candidates. Vote smart.
The Importance of Education
A recent post showed poor black children in Africa in a makeshift classroom with a dirt floor and cinder blocks as desks. They may have been poor, but they understood the importance of education. But too many of our young people here don’t get it. In the 21st Century, education is not an option; it is a necessity. History and life are replete with examples of people who started out poor, but with an education, they did well for themselves and escaped poverty.
Do some people really want to work?
So many people want to be employed. But too often, after they get employed, they don’t show up for work. They’re often late for work, and they carry out their jobs as if work is punishment.
How Blacks can progress faster
As African Americans, we devote a lot of effort and energy outward on how the efforts of others impact us. But what if we changed our tactics and strategies are started to focus more on our internal issues? Considering so many of our issues begin in the home, what if we focused more on the family and how what’s taught in the home affects homicides, unemployment, attitudes towards education, crime, and more.
Sidney Poitier
“My generation was taught that educational achievement, moral virtues, and economic organization were far more important to our development than how whites treated us or how they felt toward us.”
Rev. Jim Holley
“Too often, we buy everything we want, and beg for what we need.”
Every act has consequences, good and bad.
The City is currently holding an event to help nonviolent offenders to clean up their arrest records. For those who don’t have an arrest record, please keep in mind that every act has consequences. Think before you do even consider breaking the law. The wrong “friends” will convince you that doing a bad thing is a good thing. Bad decisions made during a person’s youth could haunt that person for life. Indeed, every act has consequences, good or bad.
- Who’s the boss?
Can you control your anger?
Or, does your anger control you? © 2016
Samuel K
theblacksilentmajority (SM)
Two men are engaged in an argument. A drink is accidentally spilled. One man is so angry he takes out a gun and fires at the other man. He missed the other man, but the bullet struck the man’s young daughter. The daughter died. Was the argument so important a child had to die?
Two women were on a city bus. One woman made the mistake of bumping into the other woman. Seconds later, the woman who was bumped into stabbed to death the other woman. Two lives have been ruined over a bump. Was it worth it?
Regrettably, incidents like these two are not rare. They happen everyday.Too often, one person is all too willing to punch, stab, or shoot another person over things many people would ignore. It could be over a parking spot, a stare, a place in line, a perceived insult, or some other dumb stuff.
Psychiatrists have explanations for this type of behavior.
In the book, “Make Peace With Anyone,” David Lieberman, offered some important insights into anger. He wrote:
“When we do not get respect from others, we get angry because it hurts how we need to see ourselves. This disrupts our ability to feel in control. The emotional response to this loss of control is fear. The response to fear is anger. At the root of all negative emotions—envy, lust, jealousy, and anger—is fear.
“At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This is why angry people have low self-esteem. This is why they argue, are stubborn and don’t forgive. Anger makes us feel powerful. It gives us the illusion we are in control, free and independent. But in reality, it makes us lose control.”
“When someone is rude or embarrasses us--does anything that is disrespectful—if we have low self-esteem, it causes us to question our own self-worth and lash out with anger. This is why a person with low self-esteem is highly sensitive—because his opinion of himself fluctuates with his ability to impress others. The greater our self-esteem, the less hurt we feel when someone is disrespectful.”
Uncontrolled anger has many unintended and negative consequences. It could cause you your job, your life, friendships, love, money, or your freedom. So before you let anger get the best of you, try to control it, and ask yourself if it’s worth it.
Sometimes, people with limited vocabularies will get into arguments with others. When they cannot express what they feel, or how they feel, it can lead to frustration, and their frustration can lead to anger, lashing out, and violence.
Our community, the black community, seems to have more of these incidents over trivial matters than other communities. Let’s confront this issue and try to come up with solutions. Before you “go off” on somebody, just ask yourself:
* Do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail because someone bumped into you, looked at you the wrong way, or said something to you that you didn’t like?
- Who’s the boss?
Can you control your anger?
Or, does your anger control you? © 2016
Samuel K
theblacksilentmajority (SM)
Two men are engaged in an argument. A drink is accidentally spilled. One man is so angry he takes out a gun and fires at the other man. He missed the other man, but the bullet struck the man’s young daughter. The daughter died. Was the argument so important a child had to die?
Two women were on a city bus. One woman made the mistake of bumping into the other woman. Seconds later, the woman who was bumped into stabbed to death the other woman. Two lives have been ruined over a bump. Was it worth it?
Regrettably, incidents like these two are not rare. They happen everyday.Too often, one person is all too willing to punch, stab, or shoot another person over things many people would ignore. It could be over a parking spot, a stare, a place in line, a perceived insult, or some other dumb stuff.
Psychiatrists have explanations for this type of behavior.
In the book, “Make Peace With Anyone,” David Lieberman, offered some important insights into anger. He wrote:
“When we do not get respect from others, we get angry because it hurts how we need to see ourselves. This disrupts our ability to feel in control. The emotional response to this loss of control is fear. The response to fear is anger. At the root of all negative emotions—envy, lust, jealousy, and anger—is fear.
“At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This is why angry people have low self-esteem. This is why they argue, are stubborn and don’t forgive. Anger makes us feel powerful. It gives us the illusion we are in control, free and independent. But in reality, it makes us lose control.”
“When someone is rude or embarrasses us--does anything that is disrespectful—if we have low self-esteem, it causes us to question our own self-worth and lash out with anger. This is why a person with low self-esteem is highly sensitive—because his opinion of himself fluctuates with his ability to impress others. The greater our self-esteem, the less hurt we feel when someone is disrespectful.”
Uncontrolled anger has many unintended and negative consequences. It could cause you your job, your life, friendships, love, money, or your freedom. So before you let anger get the best of you, try to control it, and ask yourself if it’s worth it.
Sometimes, people with limited vocabularies will get into arguments with others. When they cannot express what they feel, or how they feel, it can lead to frustration, and their frustration can lead to anger, lashing out, and violence.
Our community, the black community, seems to have more of these incidents over trivial matters than other communities. Let’s confront this issue and try to come up with solutions. Before you “go off” on somebody, just ask yourself:
* Do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail because someone bumped into you, looked at you the wrong way, or said something to you that you didn’t like?