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Originally Posted by John Lennon
"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"
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Yet, it's ok to promote negative, hate filled people (Farrakhan/Sharpton/Wright/Robertson/Falwell and so on) define you and dictate to you what to believe in.
Meanwhile, people like George Foreman, Clarence Thomas, Dennis Kucinich, and so on, are relegated to labels "Uncle Tom", "whack jobs", POS's, etc.
Why do we negatively label those with positive messages and promote those who teach negative, hateful, racist, divisive messages?
Why do we accuse those who are willing to discuss compromise as not knowing what is really going on?
I work in the inner city, it doesn't get much worse in Akron. There are gun shots everyday in the neighborhood. How many of you apologists and people promoting those negative leaders work in similar areas and with that population on a daily basis like I do?
I can't afford to be the racist some of you portray me to be. I can't be a cold heartless person that some of you portray me to be considering what I do.
S, I am totally lost when in my profession we find giving positive answers and positive influences and role models a way to help immensely.... choose to believe that negative hateful role models and leaders are better.
I can't grasp that idea, I just can't.