| starting xanga again...
i need an outlet for my thoughts..a place to ponder things....
so much has happened since and i have ideas and ponderment to be released...
so h-e-l-l-o xaanggaa!!!
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| life is really confusing right now..really confusing..i dont know what to do on a lot of issues...
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| crap...i have the redwine buzz...but oh was it a good bottle..
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| this has been on my myspace for a long time now..and i think it'll be a permanent fixture..but here...kuz it's so good of a speech..
"Good morning. My prayers are with Ronnie Burke’s family today. I know
yours are too. My prayers are with Officer Rafael Martinez and his
family. They are not struggling with the loss of a child but they are
struggling with a terrible truth. My prayers are with those families
and with this one.
You know, I find myself on days like this casting around for
someone to blame. I blame the kid, he stole a car. I blame the parents,
why couldn’t they teach him better. I blame the cop, did he need to
fire. I blame every one I can think of and I am filled with rage. And
then I try and find compassion. Compassion for the people I blame,
compassion for the people I do not understand, compassion. It doesn’t
always work so well. I remember as a young man listening on the radio
to Dr. King in 1968. He asked of us compassion and we responded, not
necessarily because we felt it but because he convinced us that if we
could find compassion, if we could express compassion, that if we could
just pretend compassion it would heal us so much more than vengeance
could. And he was right: it did but not enough. What we’ve learned this
week is that more compassion is required of us and an even greater
effort is required of us. And we are all, I think everyone of us, are
tired.
We’re tired of understanding, we’re tired of waiting, we’re tired of
trying to figure out why our children are not safe and why our efforts
to try to make them safe seem to fail. We’re tired. But we must know
that we have made some progress and blame will only destroy it. Blame
will breed more violence and we have had enough of that.
Blame will not rid our streets of crime and drugs and fear and we have
had enough of that. Blame will not strengthen our schools or our
families or our workforce. Blame will rob us of those things and we
have had enough of that. And so I ask you today to dig down deep with
me and find that compassion in your hearts because it will keep us on
the road. And we will walk together and work together. And slowly,
slowly, too slowly, things will get better. God bless you. God bless
you and God bless your children."
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