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[Color-word used as an Identity Pronoun] Lives Matter

Ya, Politics, you can't get away from it. Platitudes. Platitudes with attitudes. Mean salons of some other group who think you are their enemy, but you don't even know who they are. They don't seem nice. You try to drive away. They get in front of your car. Who does that really?

We have sensible rules that are outside of politics: like don't stand around on the highway. It's a common carrier route, I mean ambulance route. It's a route to the hospital. You want to stand in the way of that?

A group chooses an unfortunate name. They imply as if they speak for some imagined set or family of people loosely based upon a descriptive adjective that describes something, that for 75 years, most polite people have tried to stop using as a distinction of a person. We can't stop because it's just a fact that people use the word, and we have to use it to. But we don't want it to be a major marker of distinction between people. We are all a little bit different from each other, and there is no perfect or archetype living person who represents some 'best human'. So that means that we don't really have race unless we want it, as a cheat, to generalize, because we are too lazy to get to know people and learn their names. And to use those instead. So we say something vague like 'I went to such and such a street in some far off other town, and it was a beat street without justice and the [Adjective that describes some aspect] People there . . . and we use the word like that, 'adjective that describes some aspect' in our case 'black' or 'brown'. So we have a color distinction word that is also grotesquely used as a name of a set of people within a single mind, these 'Black' These 'Brown', these 'ebony', these 'ruddy', these hirsute, these squinty, these whatever-characteristic is easy to generalize that we get away with using and everyone else doesn't get upset. They are different, right? Different from you. But not from each other, right? That is why you can lump them all together? Well, sure, you use those words. We say 'The [color adjective] Guy', ie the turquoise guy. Or how about rainbow mirror? What you see is what you are to yourself. Is that it? We use a color to describe millions and millions and then use it to create false generalizations based upon what we have seen. That is not OK, I feel, because it subhumates people. That is not to say that concise words like 'White people' or 'Black People' isn't useful for some purposes. In the case where it were that it was a big difference of grand importance, in the sense of some ancient tyranny that someone can't get over because they fell what their ancestors feel? Why can't they get over it? If they weren't there? Of course we have to use terms like 'White' and 'Black', because everyone else uses them. The meaning is often not impercise, though often generalized. So we can try to get away from 'race' as something of importance, but if others still feel that it is, and they still have to deal with someone elses way of using race to be mean, then we can't ignore the words or pretend that they dont' mean what the speaker says that they mean. like if they say 'I hate [some racial adjective] people.' We can't stop people from using racial and ethnic prnouns and adjectives. But we can educate them and hopeful get them to stop using them for some purposes, ie in Politics or in describing the morality of peoples (as if we are all ethnohistorians with a window into other people's souls.

Why can't we just stop using racial pronouns and adjectives? It would be dictating how someone speaks, which is also insentive and tyrannical. Some call that linquistic imperialism. So if someone is incline to pontificiate using racial pronouns and adjectives speak to them about what they are saying, not the words that they are using. And if you have to use some words that might be, in other context, promotional of stereotypes, then do it because it is concise and in the same vernacular of he/she/? who is spouting out their smacktalk racial-nonsense.

Yes it is true that people of different, what we see as, races have different issues. But it is all within the realm of expectation. But when you see a person the hope si that the first thing you see won't be a 'race' or an 'ethnicity', but just see a person. They are some category, you think? They only represent themselves, they don't represent your delusion of race. That is person to person, we hope.

It's insensitive to deny the hurt that some people feel that they attribute to the percieved differences of race. The 'perception of race' isn't something that we can ignore. We can wish it were not something important, but too many people over too long a period have paid heed to this type of classification, and schemed along the lines of race and ethnicity. Favoritism and disfavoritism, and also the perception of such. The feeling of being excluded. Envy. A sense of self-hatred. This can happen to anyone. And to explain it to themselves they might use categories of race.

So kindness is the rule that should work. We hope it works. We can't tell someone to not feel the hurt. But we can suggest thta they not generalize based upon anecdotal experience.

if someone had an undeserved beat down and words of color were used while the beating was happening. That person might have too much pain to confess the feelings that got started by the event, maybe has suppressed his/her/? memories of it but now has some kind of hatred for anyone that he/she/? imagines is of that class, and it could be a color-word kind of distinction, one that we 'wish' were only used when people are speaking fondly of each other 'oh, what a wonderful shade of black', no one would say that. It might be offensive. I single quote it because if you are speaking color, we have a joke, in English. Black is no color. And thus it has no different shades. But if I use it to mean about 'race', then it could be about someones skin but we still can't imagine anyone saying it unless they are playfully speaking fondly.

So people use words that are also colors to describe people. And they do it openly and sometimes joyously. Sometimes, though, these words are used, these identity words, to say mean and inciteful things, or used within explanations for horrible crimes. Social Injustice is a real thing in this world, but it is not a cause, of sorts, by itself without the people. If you really are a student of Social Justice you have to apply it to people, and you must do this in a way that disallows these color words also used as identity pronouns, to be part of the science of it. Don't let your own delusions about race, or what you know to be true within the context of your own cultural experiences (that is you walking around and being beautifully you, aren't you?). Yes, you can be called some color-word used as an identity pronoun. But is that the main thing in your life? The main thing is your family, friends, and community, and that might be, from what you encounter, all seemingly using these same color-words that are also identity pronouns. That is OK. It's fine. It's all in the family. You call yourselves something. We all don't mind. It's really none of our business.

When these color words are used to name a group, is that really fair use? Or is it an usurpation? Maybe such a group should always have aother name, so that Identity pronouns wouldn't be part of it. When Identity pronouns are used in the name of a group that group, in some sense, is usurping (trying to usurp) the word itself. So a name like '[Color-word used as an indentity pronoun] Lives Matter' might be very very offensive to some people. It doesn't even have to be a color-word used as an identity pronoun.

It is not that we don't want what the group wants: social justice and real equality and reformation of some aspects of governance and policing. The people who feel that the police, some police, target Black People, we know that some police do. And now we some poeple who identify as Black targetting police. In a random way. So how does that help?

Anyone, regardless of what pronouns or words you use to describe them, who targets anyone, be it officer of the law or someone being pulled over, who happens to have a darker complection, anyone who does such targetting, be they cop or addled idiot, is behaviing in a most retrograde fashion. The police (few) who target Blacks: they are creeps and worthy of justice (through courts). The 'Black' who has a scope and a rifle: also a creep worthy of justice (through courts). And everyone can agree on this. Murderous criminals, of any kind, need to be brought to justice.

Some bad cop somewhere incidentally, they make it mean 'all cops everywhere'. If you can't see the fallacy in that, I don't understand. But that still doesn't absolve you. You need to continue in a moral and upright way. You can't stop the need for justice and law enforcement, but at the same time you can't deny the need for justice for those who do get profiled and treated unfairly.

The problem exists. And it can be solved. What helps is not going after the good people, of any kind. And that means that we are better when we don't generalize about moral quality based upon skin color or upon career choice of Law Enforcement. Both Police and Black people are all more likely to be good people, wanting to do what is right, and really doing that, than not. There are mostly good people in this world until we start imagining that anyone not like us is a villain. When we see villains it's usually that we are fixated on some smaller aspect, thinking ill, channelling hateful rants silently but like thunder in our minds. It's not real. Most people don't want conflict. They want peace. They want everyone to get along. Anyone targetting anyone, those are the ones to watch: the ones who have lists, the ones who do 'pay back', they are the ones to look out for. But they seem to, if rivals in their delusions, attract each other. Cruel karma, oh The Fates, the pit us against rivals with equal quality of delusion and make us do battle. If we play not their perverse game we lead much happier lives. So go be nice to Cops. Go be nice to Blacks. Everyone matters, including their lives. Be nice to everyone and don't return hate with hate. And don't act of the delusion that someone else is doing evil and you need to stop them. Resist not evil Be still and know.

Most of them, in any group, want to be doing what is right for the people. Believe that and act on that. And stop trying to devide us.

1:03 P.M.
July 12, 2016

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look about you.
Look about you.
You've got that deer-in-the-headlights
look about you.
Look about you.
You've got that deer in the headlights
look
I don't know why
you're such a crook
I don't know why
you're my misch-took
you've got that 
deer in the headlights
look

In the head lights
in the head lights
in the head lights
In the head lights

Look about you
Look about ch'you
Look about chew
Look about you

I don't know why
I don't know why.
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Did the Sun ever really go down that night? I parked there, watching for a long while, not realizing that I'd left on my head lights.

Did somehow the Sun just duck within the clouds till day break, and amble along the far horizon till it got to the otherside?

She brings it on the train
when she's lonly
and doesnt' take till they leave the city.
They leave the city.
She is sleeping in the seat he could grab her.
She wouldn't even know what he is doing.

She stabs him. He's dead now.
It was all a dream.

If they leave the city
she has to take the train
because she can't stand the pain
if she doesn't take
what she needs to take
the pain is real
nothing you could fake,
OK, maybe if you were a great Actor
Up on stage with the best orchestra
and arm forward, advancing
in soliloquoy of song (sp?)
she'd dance
and saschey and
be all happy 
in that dream
she got up
dancing
it was dawn
out over the new city
she sees the handsome bearded man who she'd imagined
in dream
she'd killed and he opens his eyes
and startles
at her peering right at him
right up close to his face.
The pills make her
act like that
she has his hand
where it doesn't belong but
he's . . . 
interested now . . . 
but he shoes her off she's angry.
The pills make her like that.
She doesn't show her anger.


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She would share her meds
but she never has anything left.

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March 11, 2015


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if you have this attitude, you won't need this attitude.
delete your delusions.

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 she never has anything left.
 

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