Works; From the right side of my brain
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Mural Art work
  • Sculpture
  • Design
  • Blog
  • Cosmp Toth

Swimming upstream
That is what I will call this blog and that is how I sometimes feel. I write about things that are important to me and also things that amuse me. Sometimes they are the same thing. Some of the posts are older and re-edited and some are left as written, whether they were written last week or ten years ago. If they are here, I still find something important in them.
Please feel free to comment or disagree, as I never ask for agreement, but do hope for some consideration 

Senora Ramos was crying

12/28/2023

0 Comments

 

Senora Ramos was crying. She had been erasing the black board to prepare for our class, and was listening to some of the arguments going on behind her in the final minutes before the bell. We did not even notice at first, but when she turned around, it was obvious that she was very upset, but we did not know why.
            A few days earlier at a party, a few boys, who had been drinking, decided to go for a walk around the block to sober up. They were not familiar with the neighborhood and ventured into an area where their presence was not welcome. They were attacked by a large group of black kids. A couple of the boys got away from the mob, but one did not. He was severely beaten and his jaw was broken with a pipe. This caused an uproar in the school and a great deal of tension between the black and white kids in our school.
            This was in the late sixties, a time of unrest in the entire country. To our credit, outside of a lot of posturing and inflammatory rhetoric, the ensuing race riots did not occur. In fact most of the kids in the school got along with each other.
            So why was Senora Ramos crying?
As she sat on the edge of her desk, sobbing, unable to teach, she told us her story of how she came to America. She talked about living in Cuba, the Castro revolution, and her families’ escape to our Country. She went on to explain the tactics that the Communist revolutionaries used to cause unrest, and how they pit one group of people against another.
“Can’t you see it?” she said, “This is what they are doing here!” She warned our class that there are communist subversives working inside our system to undermine our values and to create the chaos necessary to bring about revolution. She asked us to be aware of those that seek to divide us by skin color and ethnicity and even religion and to always remember why this country, with its emphasis on the individual and not the group is the last truly free place on earth.
            As a teenager, I thought that this was an amazing bit of theatre. Senora Ramos was an emotional person, and clearly she was over-reacting to the incidents at our school.
            A few days later after thing settled down and people were acting normal, I was walking out of school and I saw my friend Geoff with a group of other students. I knew most of the people in the crowd, as our school was not that large. I had something that I wanted to talk about, so I walked over and spoke to him. He treated me differently than usual and our conversation was short. We sat next to each other in Advanced Biology class and had been friends since freshman year; as we also played football together, and shared very similar musical tastes. As we walked into the classroom together that morning he said something to me that I just could not believe.
He told me, “Don’t come around and talk to me when I am with my Black friends”.
We remained friendly, but our “friendship” stopped growing that day.
            From that day on I have been acutely aware of all of the groups and organizations that are divisive in their nature.  The black power radicals were fringe groups and so were the nut case anarchist organizations like the SDS (students for a democratic society) and the Weather Underground.  There were also other extremist groups like the KKK and some Neo Nazis. There was no large measure of support for any of these movements and most people paid little attention to them unless they were in the news for some incredible act of stupidity.
 
 
This was the time in our country when every kind of group imaginable began to assert their rights. In truth, it started out with the most noble and virtuous intentions. We recognize that it is fundamentally immoral for an individual to be treated differently or to have less opportunity because of some prejudice or bias, and Natural Law should insure all Americans equal protection under the law.  These were among the great battles for justice in America. Young people should know that many Republicans were among those leading the effort with regards to civil rights. The Democrat party however was the party that made political alliances with many of the radicals and “Community Leaders”. Many community leaders had one thing in common. The philosophy of many of these organizations, is one that has it’s under- pinning’s in Marxist ideas. Most of them tried to blur the lines between fundamental and constitutionally protected “natural” rights and the intellectually dishonest concept of “desires as rights.” Liberals and progressives have also attempted to equate equal results, with equal opportunity, under the banner of social justice. They embrace the ideas of egalitarianism, and boldly advanced the prospect that it is an American idea. Those who extolled these and other progressive philosophies have had incremental success but until recently they did not have a choke hold on us, except in the larger urban areas. The place however that they have had enormous success is in the education system. Many of the “bomb throwing radicals” of the sixties are now professors and many of their students are now teaching our children. Because the changes came incrementally; hardly anyone noticed. One symptom of this is, over the last half century, we have abandoned the melting pot metaphor, to embrace without thinking, (evasion) the multi- cultural philosophy. It happened so gradually that barely anyone noticed. Because we were not paying attention, these faulty ideas now permeate our school systems. Instead of judging each individual on one’s own merits; we now find ourselves tip toeing around important issues, rather than stating the plain facts, to avoid offending someone. Activist judges have removed all remnants of our religious traditions from all public places, on the grounds that they might offend someone. We have allowed, by our silence, the withering away of our culture and our traditions.  Today, outspoken defenders of liberty, are often portrayed by the media, as extremists, for standing up for the values, on which, this country was founded. We are expected to participate in a group Mea culpa, for some wrong done in the distant past, by some person or persons that share nothing with us except skin color.  Progressive types like to award extra credit to an applicant for having an important ethnic heritage, and even brownie points for skin color. Some even use it to their advantage, (Fauxcahontas). All of this under the false premise of “tolerance” and the big lie about being “inclusive”. They speak of wealth re-distribution and reparations for their favorite victim groups, and ironically and hypocritically, at the same time attack those who refuse to accept their appointed role of “oppressed minority” in society. I am speaking about free thinking individuals such as Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas and Justice Alberto Gonzales. Americans are first and foremost, individuals, capable of forming their own opinions. We have a live and let live attitude that until very recently has served us well. Unfortunately, more than half of us now embrace this faulty philosophy, and now we will get the government we deserve

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    The creative mind is one that is hard to control. The blog section of this website may have many different types of opinions.

    ​

    Archives

    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    October 2022
    September 2022

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed


  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Mural Art work
  • Sculpture
  • Design
  • Blog
  • Cosmp Toth