Women On Top?

There is one blog I have been avoiding for a very long time, sexism. It has been the hardest thing I have ever tried to write. You see no matter who you are there are certain principles that you just cant escape. For me, being a man, the systemic principles of sexism are obvious. The big problem is knowing that they exist and how do I defeat my own perceptions. Awareness is not just a cute buzzword, its a discipline. I have made it my life’s work to stay a student, never believing that Im a master. Oh sure, there are many men that think they know of the sexist tactics that permeate our planet. But do you? As a man can you pick up on everyone of them? As a man do they directly effect you? Or are we just grasping at straws?



So you got the answers? Or is it male privilege that gives you that superior stance? I have been in the workforce, as a manager for over 20 years and there are things I have seen and heard that to this day makes me want to say...damn we men suck! There are prejudices that move from the obvious to the covert. The obvious, we make more than women, we hold more positions of power than women, and last but not least, we are not all that willing to concede those benefits. That is the covert...we have a very inconvenient truth.


Whether it be suffrage, employment, or political positions, even sexual freedom, we started the race to the top years before women did. Have you ever been the new kid in school? Was it hard to fit in? Hard to be accepted? Well if you magnify that exponentially, that is what it is like to be a woman. Imagine that you cant fit in? Imagine that you aren’t accepted? Imagine, just based on the visual presentation, you are different and treated accordingly. Someone spoke to me the other day about equality being about the freedom of choice, I just wonder, do women truly have that choice? Does the fact that she is a woman deter choices from her?


Of course they do, didn’t she start the race before men? Didn’t she get told what do to with her body, by law. Only a child molester is placed in a position to have laws dictate what he can do with his body. Is there a Roe v Wade for men? I think not.


As for jobs, a male nurse for a long time was laughed at because that is "women's work". It is tragic that a woman is laughed at because she wants to have the freedom of choice to do a "man's job".


I know that many men are thinking as they read this:


I have never discriminated against a woman, so why should I care?


Hey man, that just the way it is, right?


Or my favorite...they ARE inferior to us! Accept it!

For me the answers are obvious, if I or any man want to be equal, truly equal, the system must be challenged!


Equal pay, for equal work, drop the need to remove choices, pay attention to the fact that our society offered them a seat to the table...long after we had made the rules.


Cause whether we like it or not...they bear the burden of climbing a ladder that we are many rungs above.


We as men must bear the burden of knowing that we still must fight daily...not to look down on them.


The system has made even the most empathic man, a sexist feminist.


If you acknowledge their burden, their fight, then join in raging against the machine. Not your guilt, not your apathy, and never your pity will make things right. Just your honesty and discipline.


Be a student, be a man.

We Are All We Have Left

I know that some of you are wondering...what is up with Saynt?







Is he mad? Happy? At peace? Whats with the "hippy shit?" Well, a young lady hurt me. She didn't say anything bad about me. She told me her take on life, her life, I was devastated. I started to ask myself...why do we think like we are so DAMN divided? How can we be so diametrically opposed to each other?






So please...forgive me. The next few blogs I put out will speak to my lack of understanding "misunderstanding". It will address what I truly don't believe...we are not the same. Don't we know that we are only human? Everything else is window dressing.






One last thing before I begin my post...no matter what you believe or believe in...I love and respect you. I don't come in peace, I come seeking it.







What many know but many wont admit...we are NOT in a class war. We are the POW's. We have had our freedoms, education, media, and our ability to be taken from us. They replaced it with political parties, race divisions, religious conflicts and a level of stress that most rabbits hearts would explode if they had to deal with what we have for an hour. There are no countries or continents, just rich and poor. The haves don't control the have nots...we live in a prison that is now of our own creation. We don't love or trust our own neighbors. We are the only thing we have left is each other. The boat we are on is rocky, the waters are fierce, but we are together. Everyday I see more and more that nothing we have cant be taken from us. Of course it can be taken...we have no ownership. We don't own our thoughts, our feelings, or our bodies.






How can you own what you don't have access to growth? We don't have an effective educational system, We don't have effective routes to a healthy diet. Have you look at any news going on...Shock Doctrine is not a book...its one of the tools used on us like you would a science project. We are quick to say what's wrong...that scares me. We come to the table with problems and damn those that have solutions. We have become the silencers of progress that the rich couldn't have possibly imagined would be that easy to design. They feed off of our fear, they know with stress and fear we will never look beyond our own problems. We are so far into problems that apathy is the only reaction we give when someone else is in pain. We compete with our pain. "You think you got problems" has become the knee-jerk reaction to most cries for help.






But don't you think that if you have problems, your fellow brothers share the same pain?






Isn't it a universal thing? Pain that is. Sexual abuse didn't just happen to you. Job loss didn't just happen to you. The loss of a home, business, or a loved one didn't just happen to you. Am I asking for us to have a group cry? No. Am I asking for everyone to get mad like Howard Beale asked in the movie Network? No! We are like minds! Yes we are! We all want to have an opportunity to show that we matter. No matter what skin color, gender, sexual orientation, or even religion we just want one thing...All I Really Want...Is To Be Happy!






Oh sure happiness is different to different people, but happiness carries an universal and absolute rule...






You cannot seek happiness at the expense of others happiness. We cant offer nothing in the expectation of everything. you cant seek riches while making others poor. We cheat far too much...we cherish demolishing victories more than we practice fair competition. Life has become a death sport where its I need to get mine so you had better help me, but when I get mine you had better get yours on your own. We think that we are playing on a level playing field, so "any extra additions of cheating wont hurt". But it is hurting, its hurting your neighbor when you lose sight that he is your brother and love is what we all want. Love and respect is the fundamental premise of what every child is taught on how to treat one another. When did we outgrow our eyes of the inner child? When did we become so pro-ourselves that we have become anti-everyone else? As I have said here already...we are in this together...we had better act as if...because when pain hits one of us...it will eventually come for us all if we don't join together to stop human atrocities. That is what pain is to a person, that is what fear is to a person, that is what hate is to a person. An atrocity.






I leave you with a poem from Pastor Martin Niemöller who I think that is so very timeless and telling...please I hope we can come together and put love into action. If we can do life with love we wont live through this poem.






"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.



THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.



THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

 THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,

and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.



THEN THEY CAME for me

and by that time no one was left to speak up."

I DONT WANT A CIVIL WAR!

I don’t want a Civil War…I want an UNCIVIL WAR!



YUP! I SAID IT! BRING IT ON! Just maybe this way the South will lose this time! We need to have a UNCIVIL WAR! We need to have all these backward ass people removed, Obama maybe a student of Lincoln…but don’t for a moment forget…HE IS BLACK…HIS WIFE IS BLACK! Stepping to this President…oh wait COMMANDER-IN-FUCKING CHIEF will get some asses smack down! You know he will not be able to ignore once they fire the first shot into the White House screaming NIGGER, that this is all about the fact that HE is the occupant of the presidency!






I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK! That has been the screaming mantra since he became president! But when he skin tone is mentioned…well you know he is only half black…why don’t you ever talk about his white side??? Because you never called him a NIGGER LOVER! Everybody knows this is about race! Those that don’t…it must be nice. I don’t wish to live in your “reality”! I want a knockdown drag out fight


I want the South to rise again! I want the confederate flag to wave proudly! We already know you just cant wait to use your power (guns) against the big scary black man! You need not hide your hate and fear after you start this war! Go for it! Lets have it out once and for all! Use your 2nd amendment rights!






Just know this…the people that you think represent you will not be on your side…they will call you A DOMESTIC TERRORIST! You will not see Sen. Bonehead ask to be a General! You might get a Gen. Palin…good luck with that! Rupert Murdoch will not supply you with ANYTHING! How can he? You stopped watching Fox! You will not get help from the rich…you are the minority! You aren’t in power! The “good” white people will not side with you! They will say to you…treason!


You might get a little help…Russia or China MIGHT sell you some guns or ammo. But you wont take it…they are COMMIE PINKOS, right? Bring your militia, bring your guns, bring your freedom of assembly. Obama will use the Patriot Act on your ass like Hoover abused power on the Black Panthers!






You want to secede, please announce the states that you want! Obama will be happy to give it to you! Hell you can even name it Reaganland! Bush can come back and be your leader! You want a fight…please! You will not defeat the side that has the White House! You cant win, not like you did in the first one.

God Status

You know I have had this thought about a part of our everyday life…God Status!


I know what you are thinking…ooh cute buzz words…you can put it on a t-shirt…sell bumper stickers…
You can even put it out as a perfume…God Status…made for the bastards that just don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves…by Calvin Klein.






Easy to explain…when you have reached a level of power…given by those that have power. You are able to transcend shortcomings or obstacles that most just can’t. It is a historically known phenomenon. We even have a cute saying for those that do it…breaking the glass ceiling. Well for those that look at it from the other side…it’s a big fucking deadbolt locked double enforced steel door.






Poor people look at it that way, they know better. I have many friends that are conservative that when I listen to their take on the rich, they have the same point of view that my friends that are liberal…






Its not what you know…its who you know. So I guess in essence…we have many similarities. We acknowledge the Gods.






Now I know many people are saying…Roger Ailes isn’t a god. George Soros isn’t a god…Warren Buffett…Rupert Murdoch…Bill Gates…they aren’t gods Saynt. Really?






They aren’t? They don’t have enough power to make a mayor, Governor, Senator, or a President?






They don’t have the power to decide my life and yours? They don’t give you what they want to give you and you damn well best like it. Don’t believe me…ask the right about the health care reform…they are ready to start killing people for their gods. I know…I know…we are doing it for the cause and how things effect me. Effect you is exactly what gods do. Is the effect positive or negative? Have they done what you like or done what they want and we co-sign on it? Hell even the left is saying…its not what we want…but it’s a start…really? Wasn’t Medicare a start? Start to donut holes, not covering or protecting the elderly properly.






You know what is bad about having a lot of money…nothing. You know what’s wrong, many with money are doing wrong. They dictate both political parties, they control our government, own our media.
Above all they have the ability to make God Status…we are seeking that so much that we don’t see the harm in being culpable in the wrongs that they do. We can be middle management of a insurance company and sign off on a man or woman that is begging for health care. Sorry, you might die, but I have a summer home and mistress to protect. You lost your house in a fire…well as middle management I must deny the money…we found a glitch in your contract…besides refusing you gets me a bonus. You got Cancer? I'm sorry about that, but you need to give up that house or you cant afford the needed measures to combat the disease.






I think above all else that is the great tragedy is that we suffer in our positions of God status...we are so fear driven to our moment of loss that we ignore the pain of others. We are so disconnected that we buy things to fill humane voids in our lives and spirits.






We have so many disconnects that we think that inspiration(also known as advertising and marketing) is being connected. Safety and security is how we can be connected, love put into action is how we can be connected. I was always told that good results makes good feelings. Accomplishments are the greatest! Saving one another is how we can be connected! Being consistent in our actions of love is how we can be connected! We allow what happens to the least of us that the Gods would smite us all if it happen to them!






Now lets look at Gods…you need how many BILLIONS! Here you go. You need better tax credits…oh you are a God…here you go. 92 percent is far too damn high! How can you stay Gods if we aren’t going to tithe?






If there is to be a playing field…damn leveled…we need an invite! What kind of world that we live in that we need an invite to what we constantly proclaim…anything is possible! Anything has become possible money and how much you have…makes you a God.






God has damned us all…we still give them praise…and our all...just so we can be invited...

To what we call "heaven".

I am an Earthling!

I am a man, I am a black man, I am a 40 something year-old black man, I am a Chicago raised 40 something year-old black man, I am a Christian faith, 40 something year old black man…ok you get where I am coming from. I carry with me many different labels of expression or division.




But what I have not forgotten…no matter what I do, no matter where I go, or who I am…before anything…I am an earthling! Whether I belong to any organization, any group, no matter how big or small…



I am a citizen of this planet! All that is done, good or bad, is done on earth. With that knowledge, I have to accept that there is a responsibility of servitude to mother Earth. That’s right I said servitude! There is a level of honesty that needs to be validated, all that you or I do is being done on and to mother Earth.



I belong to the Earth! That’s right, she has more of a quantifiable ownership of me than my own biological mother, she is my giver and care taker. So, if we are servants of Earth. How is our performance? Would we get a good review? Would we, based on performance get a raise or a promotion? Would she fire us? Have we served the Earth as well as she has served us?



I look around and see a lot of good servants and I just wonder…does the bad outweigh the good? Or is it so much easier to take a step in the wrong direction than it is to be steadfast in our path of what is in the best interest of us all? Are we so much in love with our religion, political party, materials, or even ourselves that we have shown a disdainful hate for the earth? When we love “security” or “quality of life” more than we love the planet, are we being good servants?



Now of course, I like many others look at the Neo-conservationist and just question their stance, but I just wonder did they go to far to one side because we have move too far to the other side? Have we forgotten that we live here on earth? Have we forgotten that the planet has existed long before us? Do we understand that it can sustain its existence without us?



What if there is an end game?



We are sucking off of it, not the other way around. We need the planet far more than it needs us. We survive on its gifts, are we appreciative of those gifts? Will it matter if we have every electrical toy ever made, every car you could ever want to drive, or more money than you can ever spend if the earth “calls in our markers?”



Environmental issues have become political fodder, can you compromise with the planet? Are there credits of life that you can buy if the planet says “I cant sustain your quality of life”. How much is enough before we have nothing to go on…900 MILLION PEOPLE DON’T HAVE CLEAN DRINK WATER! HUNGER IS NOW TO SOME OF US A REASON TO PUT OUT A SONG!



I have a few cute buzz words in my head…results are the only quantifiers of action. So can we afford the results if its “game over”? Can we buy our way out of a loss of oxygen or water? Can we find a cheat code for doing what we claim is in “our best interest?” Do we even know what that is anymore?



If you can say that hey we have all that we need or want, this is not the post for you. If you don’t think this way, I ask, have we not heard the human alarm call? Why are we hitting the snooze button?



More importantly…do you really think if we started to act to make air and water clean that we are saving earth? Or are we saving our damn selves? Save the humans…Not save the planet.