Saturday, February 18, 2012

Solitude



Society is afraid of alone. We afraid it is not fine to be alone.  But it is okay to have solitude because all experience is unique. In this crazy breed, let us step away for a second to take the silence and respect it. Solitude is the one of the best thing that life offers. Once you're embracing it, it is freedom.
 Start simple, things you are simply avoided because of avoid being alone principles. Start with the expectable places: bathroom :), cafĂ©, book store, and churches and temple,
Where you can get peace and salvation, where you can sit on stall and read a paper, where you can smell the stuck of old books, where you can enjoy your small cup of espresso.

 Go to unfamiliar cities where streets are endless.  There will be always bench’s made for city to give strangers shared existence. Conversation that you will have with them will be so uplifting.
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Take yourselves dancing in a bar where no one knows your name. The light will convince you dance up until you sweat.  
Solitude is blessed if you are happy in your head. Solitude is healing.
                                                                                                      Inspired by  Tanya Davis

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Denial of Reality - Rethinking the History

 
The quote that I saw from my friends' email has been in my head all week. 
 “You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.” -Malcolm X
  What has really changed since the Civil Rights Movement? Do we still see the progress? Yet, what is the "progress"?. 
 Black People still have half of what is good in America; double of what is bad. Forty-eight years after the Civil Right Act passed, we still see the segregation, institutional oppression, and profoundly unequal opportunity for people of color. Housing discrimination, low retention and recruitment in higher education, and neighborhood that has higher percentage of people of color most likely have economically disadvantaged is all the facts the  situation only got worse and nothing has improved. 
Denial of the past destroyed their grasp of reality, and white people’s moral sense. This myth made race not just about how we look, but how people assign meaning of how we look. It is constructed by society for political and exploitation goals. The way we look created privilege for certain races and made inferior to certain people. If white people admit that they enslaved other men, rather than denying their immoral act, and creating race and privilege, the race problem would not exist until today. people has accept that they all benefited and responsible for this invented reality. They have to affirm they have privilege to be white in this society because this invented reality.