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Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

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Make Your face to shine upon Your servant;

Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You;

Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Let the lying lips be mute,

Which speak arrogantly against the righteous

With pride and contempt.

— Psalm 31:16-18 NAS95

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AP's avatar

Thank you for always posting 🙏🏽

mspring's avatar

Agree with PonyBoy, Fox is not a perfect news service (it's made up of people after all, especially folk who get paid handsomly for sitting at a "desk" and reciting the current management take on the state of the world). But, compared to the rest of the media, it contains way more "normal" discussions. In recent weeks, I have been pleasantly surprised at the number of times folk have been allowed (encouraged?) To tell their salvation experiences and/or how God stepped into their lives. Unheard of in trad media.

MariaABC's avatar

This is such an appropriate verse for these days, Janice. Thank you for posting it. Blessings to you and yours.

Roger Beal's avatar

Psalm 31:16-18 could have been addressed to Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, and certain other prominent Democrats.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Sounds like Fox News.

PamelaZelie's avatar

Wow! If Fox News sounds like Scripture, perhaps I should watch them. 😉

PonyBoy's avatar

You should give FOX a try. It's not the 24/7 propaganda of the Left.

FOX actually addresses the major problems in the country and how this administration is positively addressing them.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Psyop that supports the one party team sport.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Or sounds like those mentioned in the scripture.

James Goodrich's avatar

How is it possible to fix discrimination with more discrimination? This is just one of the problems with DEI. The tree Obama planted with all of his divisive, racist speeches, policies and comments like typical white people bloomed into DEI. Let’s hope that racist tree Obama planted dies roots and branch.

Freedom Fox's avatar

"Hello, 2008 mortgage crisis!"

Just remember the Shrub Bush 43 administration's stated goal was 100% minority home ownership. It proudly boasted about the highest level of minority home ownership in press releases about its loose, goosed lending incentive policies. It worked with D's to eliminate banking "red lines" from "communities of color" that were blamed for fewer loans approved in them.

It's not been a strictly Democrat-created policy. Remember, Shrub ran as a "compassionate conservative” in 2000, which means the DEI racket has been a joint project of the left and "compassionate" right.

Helps explain why so many judicial rulings that erect barricade after barricade in front of "uncompassionate" MAGA have been Bush-McConnell R judges joining with Obama-Clinton ones.

Trump's reforms have to be built for the long haul. The DEI racket thinks they can hold on in the shadows until the uncompassionate racist MAGA meanies are gone in two years.

Lori's avatar
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I have never understood why any person could not be hired based on merit. All people have the ability to be educated, by school if they pay attention and work hard or at home by reading on their own. No excuses. There are no victims here. Any person can make the grade if they put in the work and the time it takes to succeed. DEI is the stupidest idea I have ever heard of. I am tired of anyone complaining that they need special help when it comes to employment. If you decide to stay stupid, that is on you, not on me or my tax dollars.

No wonder they are killing us in hospitals. All the DEI so called "docs" that are dumb as a rock but fit the " fair and correct" criteria. BS on that for sure.

Work hard, study hard, don't complain, find a way, be resilient and move forward no matter what the circumstances are. You get out what you put in. Only here in America is it possible to truly have the American Dream.

VelvetStitching's avatar

Are the "DEI Docs" going to use ChatGPT or Grok or some other internet driven resource to "train" them for the work they aren't qualified to do?!

I for one don't want a surgeon surfing the Net for a "DIY YouTube video" on how to do a surgical procedure!

... Just sayin... Yikes!

Barbara Benecke's avatar

My friends daughter broke her tibia(lower leg bone) and I kid you not-she said the ER drs had no idea how to splint it so called up a Utube video!!!

kittynana's avatar

@barbara- even basic EMTs know how to splint...

Barbara Benecke's avatar

Truth, critical thinking skills are rare

Barbara Benecke's avatar

Barbara Benecke

Barbara Benecke

just now

Agree, this is a small town and the hospital/employees are owned by a large corp. Not making excuses, but unfortunately this happens within medicine today. Good reason to take care of one’s own health, although broken bones aren’t something anyone can plan for. 🫣

SadieJay's avatar
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Hubs and I have been talking about this. Our body parts can be like an engine. If you know how to work on your car engine, there should be no excuse for putting the heart replacement valve in a 13 year old recipient UPSIDE DOWN.

Lori's avatar

WHAT-did this really happen?

Lori's avatar

WHAT? Despicable.

Freedom Fox's avatar

Yes. That's *exactly* what doctors are being trained to be. Data entry, prescription dispensing monkeys. With an attitude. Legit, for real, not hyperbole. Their schooling is completely about conformity and obedience to standards. That they will learn. They do not have latitude to deviate. Their WebMD+ system is the consensus of experts. MCAT's, USMLE's have been completely dumbed-down, major areas, fundamentals of basic health systems are unimportant to know. Specialists who work in "teams" as interchangeable parts, none possess holistic understanding of the complete human health system, just their small area of responsibility. Henry Ford Model T assembly line medicine. Automated for the 21st century. Efficient, one-size-fits-all. Even the single choice of paint color, Black. Just like Henry figured out a century ago.

Don't believe it? Look deeper into their education, training and testing criteria today as I have. Not hyperbole.

Freedom Fox's avatar

The story of Justice Clarence Thomas's life fits your description. My Grandfather's Son. Just like that. Aspirational. Overcoming obstacles in life that are stacked against us. Resilience. No matter what the circumstances are. There's a reason the DEI/CRT race-hustlers had to isolate and demonize him, slander him as hard as they have. His story is so inspirational it blows up their grievance industry.

Justice Thomas gave a speech recently at the University of Texas Law School in honor of the 250th anniversary of the US:

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/justice-thomas-speaks-in-honor-of-250th-anniversary-of-us/677395

It was a fantastic speech. In it he said something very important to this issue. He said that we "get the government we consent to." Which I hear as us consenting to rigged and stolen elections results is the consent to being governed by those who were not honestly elected. Consenting to mask mandates, vax mandates, all of the totalitarian usurpations of constitutional freedom and liberty, natural God-given inalienable rights. That require our consent to be alienated from us.

I'm willing to wager everything I have that the protests of ICE in LA have more citizens not consenting to the removal of criminal illegal aliens from their community than citizens who would show up to a protest of City Hall, protest the election clerk, protest city council hearings and protest the mayor who are installed by election theft. I'd bank everything on that.

Which means that Los Angeleno's *consent* to unelected leaders by their inaction. Just like consenting to mask mandates and every other abuse of government that calls for widespread civil disobedience. Justice Thomas was spot-on. We have consented to what many are now realizing we don't want to live under. Will enough of us refuse to consent to more? Will enough of us refuse to continue to consent to what's been taken from us? Justice Thomas put it back on us, it's in our hands. Are we resilient enough, strong enough, do we want the society we desire to live in enough to refuse to consent to the invisible prison the TPTB are building around us?

Lori's avatar

BOOM! I adore Justice Thomas. Such a good man.

SHug's avatar

Couldn't use that link, so I found the video -

https://youtu.be/R07F_Xg7tME?si=tRIkricXhIE177EP

Freedom Fox's avatar

Curious that your browser not working with c-span. Your clip is a good one, about eight minutes. The c-span video is the entire hour and a half he spoke and fielded questions.

SadieJay's avatar

If you decide to stay stupid, that is on you, not on me or my tax dollars.

omgosh....just this!!

No. 6's avatar

Well put. And slightly off topic, but is there any endeavor less DEI than music? I grew up listening to late night Jazz with my transistor radio, and musical chops spoke for itself regardless of any other considerations. And speaking of which, if you get a chance, check out The Burnett Sisters Band's "Walk on Boy" from their "Long Way From Home" album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ok9dyv_dA) . Maybe in my old age, I'm just getting back in touch with my family's southern roots, but the musicianship, playing, and lyrics are flawless, IMHO!

Jay Horton's avatar

Everybody loves Hendrix. No matter what color, he simply took the guitar to a different place and is still pivotal as is obvious in his influence today. Just saying.....

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt0AqikB98A

Later Jay

Freedom Fox's avatar

Music transcends time and space.

Richard Whitney's avatar

NINJA loans were a give-away to the banking industry, like Obamacare was a give-away to the insurance industry. Taking away the banking regulations put into place after the 1929 crash was an ongoing scheme of the 1%, and NINJA loans were part of it.

Don't be fooled by the hype. That was a bubble that benefited the bankers, both during the bubble, and after it popped, when Congress passed the TARP Act against the wishes of 90% of the population, and then when the Obama regime made it permanent.

Since 2008 the federal debt has skyrocketed, due to the billions handed to Wall Street and the bankers, ongoing. They put it all on our tab.

Mrs. RW

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I was selling real estate in those days. All the usual mortgage qualification standards were thrown out the window. Everyone could buy a house. Of course with 100% and even 110% mortgages the outcome was obvious. By 2007-8 there were no more buyers and I was making a living doing short sales and foreclosures. An amazing time due to govt stupidity. You may wonder what a 110% mortgage was. I sat at settlement tables where the closing agent handed the borrower not just the keys to the house but a check for ten percent of the borrowed amount.

Freedom Fox's avatar

I worked on the title side of that in 2003-2004, wined and dined the realtors and lenders for their directed business. WaMu and Countrywide especially were handing candy out to babies.

I saw what I saw, thought the correction would eventually come about. No way the market wouldn't correct for the overvaluation. And then the slow realization that the free market rules were no longer functioning. Everyone in the entire industry, including the regulators, auditors, agencies supposedly there to make sure the rules were followed. The overpriced valuations meant more property tax revenues that were used to buy votes, "here you go voters/illegal voters, all these free things I got for you!"

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

When I was working foreclosures I discovered some amazing frauds. Some realtors, appraisers and mortgage brokers would create false sales with high appraisals and take out big mortgages then split the proceeds and abandon the property. One I found was a double wide in the middle of a field with no road access.

Janet's avatar
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Plant it in that seemingly windowless Obama Library atrocity. It will wither and die surrounded by the poisoned dirt of his presidency.

James Goodrich's avatar

If you look at the Obama library it resembles a trash receptacle you’d see along a dirty road.

James Goodrich's avatar

You can bet the person that designed that hideous hunk of sh-t was a DEI hire!

RJ Rambler's avatar

Reminds me of a documentary on Chernobyl

Free in Florida's avatar

Or something out of a sci-fi movie - with lots of monsters/bad guys.

PEL's avatar

800 mature trees gave their life for that monstrosity. So much for the global warming that Obama always talks about.

Kris's avatar

Equal discrimination is their answer.

Jay Horton's avatar

Yes, the supposition that this bologna began with Taterhead is incorrect. The root stock rests with Obama. He was the most divisive political leader the US has ever had.

Later Jay

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

I can assure you that this DEI got us into these "chimp outs" taking place at malls in front of courthouses, in cities and towns not to mention the beating and killing of whites. No black student is ever punished or made to face the consequences of their actions and we see how this all played out! Teachers can barely teach them anymore as can be seen and heard through their speech and knowledge of basic education. Law enforcement has it's hand tied for the chaos caused with no recourse to stop it for fear of retaliation! It's long past time to put a stop to every bit of it! We want our malls, schools, towns and cities back NOW!!!!!

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I am still hoping to see the total abolishment of public school "education". Will we get the promise of the money following the child? All parents should have the choice of where their kids are educated - home school, private school, or even public. Public schools are a total loss and waste of money at this point.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

Public schools are indoctrination camps! Dangerous to say the least! Here in NC the Senate overrode the Governor in school choice and boy are the RATS pissed. They hate school choice....they want every kids dumbed down and communist but they also want more and more money to do it! We even have an "education lottery" billions of money from this is filtered through the RATS, schools see very little....no accountability! Universities are not much better here either! Making communists out of most of our girls within 1 to 2 years of attending!

Bard Joseph's avatar

School Choice opens the door for corporations to dumb down kids.

Home schooling is key.

kittynana's avatar

@Bard- many parents aren't capable of home schooling

Bard Joseph's avatar

Schools are meant to undermine education.

Controlled by publishers.

Parents need to at least be involved with other parents.

Annette's avatar

I feel the public education system will be the hardest DEI monstrosity to crack. My friend retired from teaching in the Akron OH school system a few years ago. She had to follow absurd rules like not sending black kids to the office when they misbehaved. But, she could send white kids. Public school leadership needs an overhaul, but I don’t know how it will change when all those administrators and educators are coming straight out of leftists universities. America, America, God shed his grace on thee🙏

SHug's avatar

Isn't it nice that they have all that money available for the teacher's unions? Not like they were forcing teachers to pay into the unions..... wait, they were - but only up to mid 2018 (DJT 1st term). Oh, did anyone else see that the AFT union president Randi Weingarten (estimated net worth of approximately $1.5 million to $3 million) was able to appropriate $1.4 million of that teacher's union money to write her book? Isn't that special? Weingarten promised that royalties from the sale of the book would go to the union and related nonprofits. Weingartern NOW admits she is splitting royalties with the union.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

Wow! Not surprising! The Teachers Union in California basically gave a GREEN LIGHT to HOMESCHOOLING, via their Mandate making students stay home during the PLANDEMIC!

They told Parents to keep the kiddos home and hook them up to computers/tablets for classes. This is basically how many Home Schooled children complete their independent studies! They also have workbooks and concrete learning of skills and art, music, home economics, and animal husbandry!

How can they now demonize the Homeschool Community when they basically told the WORLD that it is a FINE alternative to "in person education', and in FACT, IMPLIMENTED a similar model!

Beckadee's avatar

Who are the RATS?

Beckadee's avatar

So NC Senate is majority Republican?

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

Yes! Thank God....They just override the vetos right and left! Our Governor is a POS!

RunningLogic's avatar

It always makes me laugh and roll my eyes when people clamor for more money for teachers and schools 🙄 We already spend much more than any other industrialized country with the WORST results!! 😡

Lori's avatar

Kathy, sorry to be so obtuse but what are RATS?

Lori's avatar

Yes, real rats are much more affable!

Peter's avatar

Without public schools how would cities spend hundreds of thousands (with DEI minority-owned firms) on individual schools for mold remediation or earthquake reinforcement?

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

The same way they implemented DEI practices to find a company to "Fix" the hole in the Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades Development that Burned in the Manmade FIRES the Jan 2025 in Southern California! They simply drained all the water from the reservoir and didn't bother to get the cover fixed! Still no water in Reservoir and no cover for reservoir!

RunningLogic's avatar

They should at the very least be “opt in” rather than the default. We pay for public schools although we have never used them. And I hate that people getting their tax money back is considered getting “government money.” 😡 That’s NOT the government’s money 😡

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Speaking of DEI, I strongly recommend you'll want to watch this 11 min video from investigator Paul Thacker on how walking crime against humanity bill gates was essentially running National Institutes of Health, while also setting WHO Policy. Thats what 430 million dollars gets you. Thacker provides the receipts. You cannot despise gates enough.

https://youtu.be/EnQPpowBpl0

The video is worth your time.

Sent from Proton Mail for Android.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Dan, I just read this about Gates, wait until you read this. And a few days ago I read about how the government Ebola websites were reactivated only weeks before the WHO declared Ebola a threat. Gates and the others use Africa to start the fake plandemics and foist the fear onto the rest of the world. Ebola is not a threat to us, and may not even be what we are told. Two links:

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/you-cant-make-this-up-bill-gates?r=1657tz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/shocking-not-exactly-gates-linked?r=1657tz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

Remember Jeff's recent column about the 2 NIH Scientists picked up by US CUSTOMS in Jan. 2026 at a Michigan airport? They were carrying unsecure vials of Monkey Pox and "OTHER" viruses and HUMAN DNA???

This is exactly how EBOLA could enter the USA! WE all should be paying attention to the early warnings, just as they floated the "Heavy Flu Season" narrative in 2019!

shayne's avatar

That was awesome. Thanks for sharing Dan!

CHop's avatar

Great link. Thank you!

william howard's avatar

Ah - the fruits of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society -

rolandttg's avatar

Never forget Johnson exclaiming "I'll have those n_ _ _ _ _ _s voting Democrat for a hundred years".

william howard's avatar

and it has been well documented that the black community was making great progress (family, education, income and many others) before that legislation - all downhill since

Steenroid's avatar

And the final nail in the coffin was Obama.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

BINGO! how they don't realize that the Dem's were the KKK is astonishing!

Steenroid's avatar

I know one black student in North Texas who got punished.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

He deserved much worse if you ask me! Gave his people a reason to act like animals and stand for the wrong thing once again and as taught!

Lori's avatar

Please don't insult animals. Most of us find them very kind, more so than humans.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I have a black FB friend who is not down with the race hustle and he posted about the black women interviewed on TV, who said, with tears streaming down their faces, "How do I talk to my black son about this?", meaning the terrible injustice that was done by convicting a murderer of murder.

Somehow, the post got pushed by FB, and a bunch of race hustlers showed up.

They ran through the entire litany of 400 years of injustice, and pain, justifying the black kid killing the white kid.

One actually said that the black community was forced by white people to take and sell drugs.

It was quite interesting. They got a lot of pushback, and a fair amount of black people showed up to say "Tell your son not to murder and he'll be fine".

Although someone pointed out that the $600,000 the family got in donations helped them live high off the hog for a while. So.....I'm guessing that some mothers will tell their sons "Go ahead and murder, I need a Caribbean cruise".

Mrs. RW

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

And I need a new car and you need a Public Defender.....Shame on them if they had any shame!

Steenroid's avatar

People with IQ lower than 80 don’t feel shame.

Steenroid's avatar

And a new house.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

The comment about Whites forcing Black communities to murder is in part, a description of the Wrong done to Black Families by the Johnson Administration and the WELFARE PLANTATION, The FEDERAL DEPARTMENT of NON-EDUCATION, ETC.

These terrible Government GRIFTS the DEM'S enacted did lead to the downfall of the MORALITY and breakup of the BLACK Family and Community they, the Blacks had worked so hard to create after the Civil War!

Steenroid's avatar

Yeah but groups like teachers unions made a lot of $$$

CK's avatar

That was a slap on the wrist. In a just society he’d be hanged.

Steenroid's avatar

Yupp. Even use a new rope.

Alan Devincentis's avatar

Should have been executed along with his ma and pa,if they know who it is. Instead of the white people around Austin violently rioting over his murder by a “ teen”, the Niggras around the murderer violently riot and threaten whites when he gets a little justice. Prepare. There will be a need one day, unfortunately. It was the deep state plan for fifty years now.

Steenroid's avatar

I agree. The poor kid never had a chance with his mother and grandmother.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

And society that never stopped him in his tracks because it started long before this incident and murder! Bet he had his ass beat on a regular basis from his female handlers!

Bard Joseph's avatar

How else you gonna be able to create the new high tech police state.

https://drjacobnordangard.substack.com/p/swedish-gang-wars-trigger-the-construction

MariaABC's avatar

This article speaks to where Canada is heading right now. Import the worst of humanity from every country, allow them to kill, steal and destroy with out consequence and the people of Canada will be begging for a totalitarian police state. It's not hard to grasp for those who have eyes to see.

John of Oregon Fame's avatar

MariaABC, I've heard that "kill, steal, and destroy" somewhere before...

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

Wow, I read it....it's frightening!

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Wait.....the armed robots are already on their way

Bard Joseph's avatar

Masked ICE robots

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

Wow...Never thought about that...I will definiteely watch tthis, thanks!

kittynana's avatar

@Kathy- I think thay's why Karmelo Anthony and his family took his conviction and sentencing hard; they never expected to be held accountable.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

I mean they rarely face a consequence so of course it's racist...things are changing and we are about done with this lawlessness!

Jpeach's avatar

Overpaid DEI experts are not different than overpriced Solar Panel Farms. They don’t function on a cloudy day and break in hailstorms.

Roger Beal's avatar

You might also ask for a revival of that shrinking class of persons: The black father who stays in the home for the long run, with the children he helped create.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

They don't even want that to be the situation! They want fatherless, the encourage it, they want them troubled and on every handout Government can offer....Big welfare Government means more jobs for those handling them...

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

The ULTIMATE HUMAN TRAFFICKING! I wish they could see how terribly they have been trafficked by the Democrat Party! The only way out is knowledge of History, but when the Oppressor has captured the Education System, you only hear " a Story, not The Story", as Dan Bongino often explains.

FLGenX's avatar

Let’s stop it in commercials and media too then. Every commercial is still DEI and the black person has an attitude of entitlement, hostile tone and gestures - just ENOUGH ALREADY.

(And yes I still have a TV because sports! Anyway, everyone sees or hears commercials now on every form of media so it doesn’t matter, it’s completely pervasive)

Lori's avatar

What is a chimp out Kathy?

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

Where blacks come together and tear everything and anything apart...look at any Dem city on a Friday night anymore, look at many of the malls...look what happened after the trial, they just terrorize and tear shit apart for the sheer joy and mayhem! Not all of them obviously byt many! They overtook our mall in Raleigh a couple of months ago, brought guns and it was locked down and now people fear even being inside the mall! Many cities have put curfews into place!

Lori's avatar

It is a shame. Imagine what these youn people could accomplish if their aims were toward integrity and moral accomplishment.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

Yes it's terrible. I can assure you it wasn't like this in my day. Any black person was as equal, loved and contributed as we all did...they were moving ahead, happy and content and very successful. I graduated in 1981. Trust when I say they do not want their people successful, they cannot control them. They hold them down give them just enough to survive but never get ahead...They know this too! I have numerous black friendss that say thee church is the worst....they pin them against whites, encourage the division....it's terrible! God sees all but he lets things happen as they will until enough is enough!

Lori's avatar

Yes, none of us educated bc we will fight back. Easier to control those that are lost mentally.

Clarity Seeker's avatar

Lets make it very simple. You either support a colorblind society or you are a RACIST. The type or hue of the racist matters not. PERIOD!

Patti's avatar

I was told once that because I don’t see color I’m racist 🤣 figured no matter what I do/ say I’m racist so I will do/ say whatever I want. Just don’t care about the word anymore.

Free in Florida's avatar

Exactly, Patti. Just do what’s right and be done with the insanity (except it hits us in the face so much that it’s hard to ignore.)

Until obama, we could all see that race relations were improving which is what you get when you just get on with life and don’t give the “poverty and grievance pimps” much of a voice. He brought all of that back on steroids.

My argument to DEI is to ask about sports. Football. Men’s basketball. If you really believe in DEI, only about 6% of the players should be black. Can you imagine the howls? Anyone with a modicum of common sense should want the best in every field - not players or workers hired because of DEI.

Patti's avatar
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Yes! Do what is right. That is such a hard concept for so many. It keeps it clear when you do the right thing. No excuses. You can look at yourself in the mirror.

Roger Beal's avatar

Remember, The Lightbringer (t.m.reg.) was coronated to "fundamentally transform America."

Clarity Seeker's avatar

We all see color. The question is more about what one does with that fact. Stereotype? That slope is very slippery. I don't worry about what others may say. In fact I welcome the dialogue. The problem is we don't have enough dialogue.

Patti's avatar

I see color a lot more today than I did 6 years ago. I really didn’t pay attention to color or if someone was gay. Didn’t cross my radar but today I certainly do. I don’t think it’s necessarily good or bad but my awareness is elevated.

Clarity Seeker's avatar

Once identity politics left Pandoras box that was inevitable. AND INTENDED

Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

The will kill you if you want dialogue. Ask Erika Kirk

Clarity Seeker's avatar

And thats the problem. And why our education system needs to be fundamentally transformed ( to borrow a phrase)

Richard Whitney's avatar

It's not easy to see color when people are mixed. That is why Roseanne Barr didn't realize that Valerie Jarrett identified as black. She doesn't look black to me either.

I come from southern California. I grew up with Mexican-Americans, not blacks.

Then I moved to southern Illinois, which is mostly black and white.

One time at work someone mentioned a fellow worker who wasn't there, and most of us didn't know who he was talking about. So he said "The black woman", at which point the Illinoisians said "Oh, OK. Her", but the guy from Arizona and I were still baffled. When we realized who he was talking about, we both said "I thought she was Mexican".

Later, I was talking to her, and she mentioned that her dad's name was Fernando.

I knew it! So the two of us from the southwest saw color, but not the color the Illinoisians saw.

I thought that was interesting.

Mrs. RW

Lori's avatar

What if it is just people prefer to be with what they are comfortable with? And they wish to live around those with like traditions, religions etc. I do not see that as segregation but a comfort level one is used to and how they were raised. That does not mean you hate anyone or would not interact with them. Humans generally are creatures of habit so why not just let people congregate amongst those with like values.

Clarity Seeker's avatar

Also by the way, private clubs are free to exclude. I am Jewish and while I think it is wrong for a golf club for example to have a blackball system to exclude jews I have no desire to force my way in. But I frankly view that type of discrimination inconsistent with American values. Just my opinion. FYI I have seen battles( nonviolent) among club members over this very issue. Its a matter of values .

Lori's avatar
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I have no problem with private clubs and those wanting to congregate with those of like values and traditions.

I would not hang out with or in a fanatic liberal club as the values are not in line with what I wish to be around. Nor would they want to be part of a club with conservative values.

Clarity Seeker's avatar

Bingo. And as you note some of those values can be vile

Clarity Seeker's avatar

What does that have to do with whether society should be colorblind. All are free to live where they wish and socialize with those they choose. But if someone wishes to buy a house in your neighborhood should the law allow racial or religious or other discrimination or not?

Lori's avatar

Why does anyone have to be colorblind when obviously there are people of color? So what. That does not make one a racist. And yes, the law should monitor if a radical religious fanatic is moving into the neighborhood, or a pedophile of any color or a person of any color selling drugs from their home. This is common sense. Would you want to live next door to any of those examples?

Clarity Seeker's avatar

Of course not. But should I automativally draw a conclusion because a person is black. Are we talking about a lower class, middle class or upper class neighborhood? Does that matter since the more costly the home the more well to do the prospective buyer. What if a buyer made their wealth through drug sales or porn or rock music? So how do you draw whatever line you are looking for? In coops in ny and condos elsewhere a board may have thd right to impose subjective standards. The question here is whether race or religion is a proper standard and if so why and are there limits in applying the standard. I fully understand thd desire to be "among your own;" the question is on what basis and how far do you go. I have seen people in large nonsouthern cities discriminate against people w southern accents because they stereotyped the southerners. I fund that wrong and disgusting and plain ignorant. And thats the problem once stereotyping is not challenged.

Lori's avatar

Again, much of this has to do more with values and traditions than color/stereotyping in my opinion. No one but other antifas want antifas living next door; same for drug sellers.

Religion matters bc it can breed violence in those that walk a thin mental health line to hurt others they don't agree with. This is where one would have to vet the neighborhood before buying although that would be hard to do in most cases except for looking at what religious buildings are in the neighborhood.

As far as race, that is up to each one of us what our comfort level is. Some may feel comfortable within an American black neighborhood but not in a Somali neighborhood. The list of examples goes on.

And as far as politics, that is very divisive so again, vet your area and perform due diligence on where you want to live or work.

I don't see the human race ever fully giving up stereotyping, racism, religious/political preferences and embracing full on acceptance of every single person they come into contact with. If you want to stereotype, be a racist, dislike other religions/political parties so be it. You won't change their minds in most cases anyway. Just do not engage in physical/mental violence of any kind. That may be the best we could ever do although I doubt that will ever come to fruition either. And so the wheel turns....

Clarity Seeker's avatar

You cannot legislative morality or goodness or good values. Hopefully soon our schools will return to inculcating good values.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Sounds anti semantic.

Clarity Seeker's avatar

Semantics ,like math and syntax, are racist

Steve L's avatar
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Thank you Jeff, you are such a brilliant light in our mornings🙏 DEI, or “didn’t earn it” pretty much explains the hypocrisy of the insane leftist. Such racism against those who produce and support our country. Promoting the most useless and deranged of our society into positions of power has created the most corrupt and fraudulent third world country maybe second only to African States. 🤔 The similarities are evident. We now have an administration that is fighting against this deranged corruption, but until we hold every politician and business that supported this evil insanity accountable, nothing will change. Keep on shine the Light Jeff🙏

Maureen ODH's avatar

… could NOT have expressed this deranged corruption better, Steve… keep the light shining 💡

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Amen and Hallelujah 🙏🏻

Torrance Stephens's avatar

1] DEI = Don't Expect Intelligence

2] A few thoughts on Carmelo Anthony or The Reason Many Think the black Community is Run by Idiots. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/why-people-think-the-black-community

ENJOY

Free in Florida's avatar

This is a good read and an excellent video, Torrance. Just start at about minute 10 and watch this lawyer. What a virtuoso! I couldn’t stop watching.

neener's avatar

Thanks for this. Great article, and the video was also definitely worth the time. Kent is a wonder!

shayne's avatar

I remember when people began qualifying for housing loans who didn't make enough income to pay their mortgages. I thought, this won't end well. Duh!!!

Susan Seas's avatar

In 2021 there was a house bought in a modest neighborhood that immediately went up for rent. It was close to $3000 a month and you had to make $9000 a month to rent it.

Richard Whitney's avatar

Blackrock bought it? They are the new slumlords.

Mrs. RW

Susan Seas's avatar

Yep, most likely!

Reelin’ In The Fears's avatar

We can thank Barney Frank for that.

JC's avatar

Read a great book on welfare/charity: The Tragedy of American Compassion. Explores how historical charitable organizations learned to put in place common sense measures to truly help people and get the able-bodied back on their feet. When the gov took over dysfunction exploded. Although his book was written decades ago, it is easy to see how massive fraud was the inevitable end of our welfare system.

Beckadee's avatar

Always better to do it in small groups of communities since they can control it and not be taken complete advantage of by the inevitable crook/liar.

kapoore's avatar

DEI did not help race relations. It has hurt African Americans more than it has helped them. I think the government should think twice about the anti-semitism legislation—is that really going to help or is it going to alienate more people. I say it will alienate people, just like DEI did, just like LGBTQ, etc. did. All these identity political things hurt, not help

shayne's avatar

Strange how extreme liberals look like thousand year old mummies. Hollywood is full of them. Sharpton looks like he's prepping for the British Museum's Egyptology section.

Beckadee's avatar

The Rev. AL. What a POS.

Roger Beal's avatar

Gotta always put "The Reverend" in quotes when discussing Al Sharpton. Just like we put quote marks around the title "Sir" when talking about that loathsome prig named Keir Starmer.

mary's avatar

After say, age 50 or so you wear who you are on your face.

David Records's avatar

That thesaurus was well used Jeff! While humorous it is also educational! I learned some new words today. Perhaps I can use them the next time my wife and I disagree!

David Nelson's avatar

David Records, no, not a good plan. Start working them in the next time you and your wife a͟g͟r͟e͟e͟... She may even smile.

David Records's avatar

You are correct David, a much better way. Thanks

David Nelson's avatar

I was just remembering that one time I ventured to disagree with my wife, and suggested she was being onerously periphrastic in expressing herself. (I know! What a coincidence! Right?!)

By another happy coincidence, I decided to do some research about another wise man, the Canadian, Red Green, and was quickly reminded of "The Man's Prayer" offered at meetings of the Possum Lodge:

The Man's Prayer.

I'm a man.

But I can change.

If I have to.

I guess.

(It was changed for the final episode, and the women had their own prayer when they attended. "I am woman. Hear me roar. I'm in charge. Get over it.")

Marlene Swann's avatar

And the very first thing that stuck in my OCD brain was I either have never seen this word correctly before, or Jeff spelled WEILDING wrong. Ashamed to admit - I am that girl. 😵‍💫

Emily 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼's avatar

@jeffchilders thank you for yesterday’s recommendation to watch the WSJ documentary about The Great Barrington Declaration. It involved a lot of swearing at the TV. And some good debriefing afterwards. People don’t want to look back. Hope more and more pieces like it are made.

https://youtu.be/O87Et-w3vdg?is=QqT7veq7lmkqP73f

Free in Florida's avatar

Agree, Emily. People need to know everything that happened.

I remember The Great Barrington Declaration came out in October 2020 and I watched a two hour interview afterwards with Drs. Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), Martin Kulldorff (Harvard) and Senetra Gupta (Oxford.) It just added to my decision not to take the covid jab that would be offered. The thing I also wondered about at the time was with their credentials and backgrounds, why they weren’t being listened to and why so many in the media tried to discredit them. They, along with others seemed to offer such logical solutions and were tamping down the media hyped hysteria/fear. SO - I’m grateful for theirs and others’ efforts. And, yes, this can’t be swept under the rug!

Marlene Swann's avatar

I completely forgot to watch the rest of it - went in to put a “like” on it and then back out!

Clarita's avatar

Let’s hope the republican defectors come to their senses. This is ridiculous. Why would we want anyone other than American citizens voting in our elections? Oh wait! I know why… so all those people that flooded the country during Biden’s term can cast their vote for a Democrat!!

AM Schimberg's avatar

Thune needs some major pressure applied. His zoo. His monkies!

Lori's avatar

they are rinos so there you go.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Disparate Impact ...

So we should dim the sun because it nourishes both bunnie rabbits and rattlesnakes in disparate ways

Roger Beal's avatar

Shhhush, youse! Bill Gates might be listening in.

Mpup's avatar
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One needn’t look far for the impact of DEI hiring. It seems that in nearly all businesses no one knows how to do their jobs or even cares if they are able to. I went to a Home Depot to buy a freezer and asked the person in the appliance section a basic question about the freezer. His response “I don’t know I just work here”. Finding someone who knows how to do their job is becoming a thing of the past. DEI has removed the concept of taking pride in a job well done. The incentive to do the job well is removed when a pseudo employee is paid the same as one who cares. Businesses and Human Resources departments take note.

Patti's avatar

Isn’t it painful!!! I feel like the handout driver’s license like skittles in WA state. No one follows the rules of road. Just merely suggested ideas for most. People don’t follow the speed limit signs either. There is a main road where I live it’s 35mph and people choose to go 25 all the time. Slows everything down. I can sit at the same red light for 4 cycles. Just follow the rules! Not complicated

PonyBoy's avatar

It was long past time for DEI to DIE.