Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starbucks. Show all posts

Sunday, June 27, 2021

The Mall

Today, I spent in Knoxville at the Mall, and while I was there got myself some vanilla cappuccino from Starbucks and watched the most recent Fast and Furious movie which was a little more hard-to-believe than some of the others, although, the special effects were not so spectacular as they were well done...


As I walked around the inside of the Mall, I realized that I was mixed in with a group of visitors, none of which had their facemasks, and none of whom I saw as any particular color other than Americans...  yet, I am sure that there were plenty of black, Hispanics, and Mexicans all around me.


Nobody looked out-of-place or that they did not belong there...  I saw males, females, families, and people who were by themselves.  I saw people that were well dressed and those who looked like they had spent the morning at the lake.


The whole time that I was at the Mall, I was thinking about why I did not want to be WOKE and why I did not particularly care for Critical Race Theory...  because the ones I was around were just a bunch of different people who wanted to spend some time at the Mall on Sunday.


While we were walking my wife was surfing the web and all of a sudden blurted out, "did you know the richest actor in Hollywood is a black person?"  My first thought was brought brought that about...  but, all I said was, "no shit" and continued walking?


But to myself, I was wondering why all this fuss about blacks being suppressed by whites...  and, then I wondered how I would have done my job if I had spent my career in law enforcement...  but, I was a teacher and spent my career in front of all kinds of people...  some were smarter than others and some did not want to talk, and some could not write well, but they were all students trying to make a better life for themselves.


Since my coffee was gone, we decided to leave the Mall and return home and spend the evening enjoying whatever it was that we wanted to do...  like watch a Korean movie with sub titles or post articles to a blog.


Isn't this the way is supposed to be in America?

Friday, April 24, 2020

We Will Never Be The Same

COVID-19 STAY-AT-HOME ORDERS has got me to thinking...

About what you might be asking?

How Covid-19 is effecting/affecting Americans in the sense of The Declaration of Independence which states:  "...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowded by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."

Beautiful words written by thoughtful, insightful, and intelligent people...  BUT, we all know that once we get past the words...  that this phrase will never be true.

Why am I making such a claim?

Look around you at this COVID-19 Pandemic..  are all people equal in how they are trying to survive and coping?

HELL NO...

How much suffering have the:

  1. Billionaires endured?
  2. Millionaires endured?
  3. Congress endured?
  4. Governors endured?
  5. New Anchors endured?
  6. Reporters endured?
  7. Hollywood Celebrities endured?
  8. Professional Athletes endured?
  9. Professional Musicians endured?
  10. Middle class endured?
NONE...

Listen to me...
I am 72 years old, suffering from 2 kinds of cancer and heart disease, retired and living off of Social Security and Savings...  and, I have not suffered at all except not being able to vacation in Destin, Fl last month, not being able to go out to a restaurant or to a movie theater, or just visit a Starbucks at the nearest Shopping Mall.

Why is this?
     I have no debt
     I have enough money to pay my bills
     I don't need to work
     I don't live "high on the hog" as they say
     I've been spending most of my retired time in doors anyway
BUT,
what about those who have to work?
what about those who have debt?
what about those who have children living at home?
what about those who earn $50,000 a year or less?
what about those who live paycheck-to-paycheck?
what about those who are handicapped?
what about those elderly living alone?

These people who report the news have no frigging idea how people like this live nor do they seem to care...  because all they seem to care about is showing how much fun they are having with their pets and trying to convince others (who are not as well off as them) to remain positive because we are all in this together.

BULLSHIT...



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