We listened to about ten minutes of the Martin Luther King Interfaith service broadcast on the wral this morning.
We learned that the last five commandments: Don't steal; Don't kill; Don't commit adultery; Don't covet; and Don't slander actually mean this: Don't take money away from Medicaid/Medicare; Don't cut anything from the educational budget; Don't tell the poor they need to work to receive anything; and don't cut a teacher's salary (ie, I guess that does fall under coveting as other state employees DO somewhat resent going years without any raise at all, EXCEPT for the protected sub-category called teachers). Sorry Ms. Rabbi, but after your political rant you called a prayer, we watched two more speakers and then turned it off.
I think racism falls under the same category as equality: it means a lot more when people practice and live right than when they just rant and rave about it. It's a lot like the Good Morning America Show. They talk about women's rights SO much, and yet when they interview a woman who is holding a position in a new field, they don't ask her how she entered that career, what she likes about it, what she hopes to do....they ask her how it feels to hold the power of being the first woman there. How is that equality? We like your gender so much that we won't actually focus on your talents and capabilities and who you are as a person?
Days like today make me want to be a hermit.
We learned that the last five commandments: Don't steal; Don't kill; Don't commit adultery; Don't covet; and Don't slander actually mean this: Don't take money away from Medicaid/Medicare; Don't cut anything from the educational budget; Don't tell the poor they need to work to receive anything; and don't cut a teacher's salary (ie, I guess that does fall under coveting as other state employees DO somewhat resent going years without any raise at all, EXCEPT for the protected sub-category called teachers). Sorry Ms. Rabbi, but after your political rant you called a prayer, we watched two more speakers and then turned it off.
I think racism falls under the same category as equality: it means a lot more when people practice and live right than when they just rant and rave about it. It's a lot like the Good Morning America Show. They talk about women's rights SO much, and yet when they interview a woman who is holding a position in a new field, they don't ask her how she entered that career, what she likes about it, what she hopes to do....they ask her how it feels to hold the power of being the first woman there. How is that equality? We like your gender so much that we won't actually focus on your talents and capabilities and who you are as a person?
Days like today make me want to be a hermit.
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