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.

Ideology vs. Philosophy...R. vs. D.

I have heard today that the two parties have different philosophies...

Really?

The right has a philosophy?

Free market?

School vouchers?

Pride in the military?

Philosophy?

BULLSHIT!

You have not had a philosophy in decades...you have an idea.

The republican party has stood by their philosophy because they have not observed what is going on amongst the living….their own constituents! They have put in ideas that have literally failed you! Can’t call it anything else but a complete failure, it has done the complete opposite of everything they have envisioned, they laid claim that their seeking competition and they set up the foundation for competition to fail because they failed to REGULATE IT!!!

They preached about how they are for the business man but what they’ve actually done, have created the corporation and eliminated the man. They have put businessmen in the position to either be slaves or extinct... they don’t have a choice. Oh yeah, I forgot...you want to cut taxes...for who?

They adhere to being able to make choices in regards to education yet can not admit to this very day that the educational system is flawed but they say lets give you options so what they’re saying is they failed to regulate control and adapt…and what they did was say ignore this 90% monster over here that is a complete and utter failure and we’re going to devise a privatized educational system that only people of our ilk can attend. While saying that the educational system is flawed yet never admitting that they’re the ones responsible for creating the system therefore should be responsible for fixing it.

But you see…that’s what an ideology is…an idea that I will stand by no matter what happens…if it fails it not my fault if it succeeds I am the conquering hero if there’s a problem with it, its somebody who did NOT do their job within the system that’s the reason why it failed…the parents…the teachers…the children…NO ITS YOU… YOU ARE THE SYSTEM...YOU FAILED...YOU AND YOUR STUBBORNNESS TO CHANGE!!!

That’s the thing about ideas, ideas have to eventually be acknowledged as either a success and keep going or failures, that bears a need to acknowledge, adapt, and surge, You have looked at eight full years of ideological failures…missteps and lets just call them what they are deliberate and tactical points of manipulation. We’re going to send the military out to achieve peace by utilizing war…we’re going to praise and honor the military on every news channel while treating them like slaves with the check you have given them…have you check and spoken with all of the military families who are broke?

But you see…that’s the thing about ideas, if ideas don’t change and adapt to unforeseen happenstance, or as I was told just a couple of days ago…SHIT HAPPENS…you just happen to be stuck in shit! You look at a graph of unemployment that is reminiscent of a Brazilian bikini when it comes to job loss you blame all types of different factions, but you ignore the result…a change has to happen you saw the change way before now…but now you’re broke…but you’re still keeping your ideas…because that’s all you have to hold on to now, you don’t have a government that serves you have a government that tells you what to do, you don’t have an educational system that teaches you have an educational system that hasn’t learned how to be productive. You no longer have the greatest military force in the world you have a bunch of people running there because they have no jobs in America…so stick to your ideas, stick to your faith stick to your dogma and you’ll find yourself stuck!!!

So when will you admit that you don’t have a philosophy…you have an authoritative ideological stance that has brought about…CHANGE!

SO EITHER YOU LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY OF CHANGE!

YOU ARE THE DINOSAUR, YOU ARE THE UNYIELDING FORCE OF THE SAME…

　

FAILURE!

FAILURE TO CHANGE WITH THE TIMES!

FAILURE TO ADMIT FAILURE!

FAILURE TO GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED!

So You Want To Speak Of Accountability?

Even in the Matrix…one can die. Maybe we need to think about that as we log in.

Its just by my own perception that there is a freedom given online that should never be allowed in the “real world”. The Real World? Being online is not the real world? Being an asshole online means you are an asshole. If you are a evil son of a bitch online, newsflash! YOU ARE A EVIL SON OF A BITCH! Don’t make excuses, don’t blame other for your piss poor behavior. Its you! I understand that there are many that feel safe in the comfort of knowing that hey I’m online…lets act a damn fool!






Lets call women bitches, lets say nigger, lets call people whatever the fuck I want! Let's do to one another whatever the fuck I want! Well, lets ask are we truly safe? Are we truly a ghost in the machine? I say you are the ghost that is the machine! You make this whatever you want it to be. Take responsibility for you, don’t deflect your sad ass behavior. Reflect on why you have a reputation that in the “real world” you would not want.

 Or would you?

If I were POTUS!

If I were president…I have had this in my head for years but it became more prevalent as I have noticed what my political or social beliefs are.




So let me start with this, I am a fiscal conservative, not in the context to how the phrase has become a buzz word. I would first get the government together by making the oath be a contract. We would have to be accountable for the money we hold. You are tax-payers! Its like being a stock holder. But with me you would be a preferred stock holder...not a common stock holder.



Second, I would get rid of Social Security…yes I would get rid of it! Not privatize, get rid of.



Third, I would make laws that are first moral in nature…I dare you to ask what that means.



I would make a 100 to 1 ration on the dollars given to education vs. military.



Next, I would NEVER speak on any interviews with ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, MSNBC, or CNN.



I WOULD GO TO A THEATRE AND INVITE THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!



If people want buzz words and sound bites...find a fucking politician...Im not a political person.



If you want to see what I am saying look at it on the internet or a library…YES LIBRARIES! Damn if I am going to allow education to be diminished by stopping library be the place of information!



I would never answer a question with a political answer…Im for the people, so lets address the people’s issues…be specific!



Next I would punish those that have been the people’s oppressor for decades! I wont be anti-business…I will be pro-Americans! Wal-Mart cannot be the only viable option of employment.



I would make cultural changes by asking for America to invest in Americans!



I would be the worst nightmare ever for a liberal or a conservative…I would be a human.



I WELCOME ALL QUESTIONS...DONT BE CUTE...YOU ARE IN MY HOUSE!







POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

The Sword Of Blogging Part 1/3

The sword always cuts both ways, lets look at the side that is not as sharp. While I love blogging, all aspects of the process, I admit as everything, it too has a dark side. The dull side of blogging is how hard it is to find good and accurate information. So lets have a moment of truth, most blogs lack original information.

Its nothing more than someone either agreeing with a news reporters work or we just cant wait to give commentary on how we disagree with someone else.

There are so many rats with agendas to deter or misinform the blind mice. Most of us are just walking into walls, with such a hard time to seek the truth, that after awhile most of us just give in to the madness. We have become faithful patrons of the internet religion. Not asking how do I find the truth, but many become spectators of the mass media’s agenda.

We have become a majority of reactors to the “truth” instead of becoming proactive to seek it. Carriers of a disease that we injected ourselves with. Why? Are we lazy? Are we so apathetic that its not truly important to find the truth, but instead to speak someone else’s? Is it a matter of trust? Do we believe the hype because, its something we like hearing?

I read a lot of people’s “truth, often I see more intent in the undercurrent of their words than I do the thesis of their writing. Am I some sort of a psychic? No. But the better question is why do we speak with such a fear of unfiltered honesty? Is it the truth will damage our comfort zone? Or is it far more sinister? Can we talk to each other from a humanistic stance or have we truly lost what separates us from the animals we cage up in the zoo?

I think the sinister perception needs more light drawn to it. We need more light, period.

Imagine if we could have transparency, not the Obama transparency. Please leave Obama out of this (I know the word transparency is like blood to a shark these days). Human transparency, that where we drop some of the walls, i.e. fears, where could we go? What could we accomplish?

Part 2 coming soon…

The Tone MUST Change! Part 2

I wrote a blog earlier pertaining to “tone”. Tone for me is a multitude of meanings, but the one I like best is how what a man speaks makes a man think. Now the man that speaks is not the same man that thinks, it’s a conveyance of thought. Its intent is very deliberate, yet almost innocuous in its delivery.

So lets look at the first “tone”…Bank “failure”. The banks over a year ago was bailed out because according to our President and the presidential candidates, both Democrat and Republican, it was a great necessity. Now while the short debate was going on, the focus was on the “bailout”. Very few people, myself included, did not look at how the tone was set…

It was an apocalyptical moment that we had no time to waste, it was an emergency. So catastrophic that it would make 9/11 look like Disney! But hey, we needed to do the “bailout”? Right?

I just wonder had they not set the tone, I.e. “bailout”, would we have paid attention to “failure”. The banks “failed”. Now mind you as they failed the CEO’s were coming to our Government with tailored suits and corporate jets. Asking for money…OUR money.

All because they “failed”, would they have the money, or would they have the money in the fashion to which they got it…expediently as well as plentiful had our focus been on “failure”?

I mean would rich men, that became rich by bonuses and salaries, be given money because they “failed”? How can you call it “failure” if the people showed up rich as hell? Let’s be honest, they were ultra rich! But they “failed”? Imagine if the media that we all know are liberal peasants released the news saying that it was a failure that bordered on the auspices of illegal activity.

They took advantage of the American people, sold them dishonesty and profited from it. So here they are, “failures”, with being entrusted with the people’s money. But here is what we did…

We gave most of them more money than they lost. Bank Of America received 40 billion, but claimed that they are worth 21 billion. Imagine the beauty of “tone”, the skill of the monetary jedi-mind trick. Please we are coming to you, not dressed in barrels and suspenders, but with tailored suits and mani-pedis.

Now here is the juxtaposition…you as a young child lose ten dollars of your mothers money. But you show up looking better than when you left. You are in a better station in life…exactly which morgue are you planning to have your funeral after you tell her.

But hey because of tone we argued about “bailouts”. It was sexy, it was relevant to us, we wanted one as well.

Just know this as long as they(take your pick as to who “they” are) set the tone…they can loan you money…with the money you gave them because they “failed”.

AGAIN YOU GAVE THEM MONEY TO LOAN TO YOU!

I DON’T THINK YOU LIKE MY TONE? DO YOU?

Next Diebold…tone?