It's my 59th birthday today - some thoughts

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Stuckinthebush (11,131 posts)

It's my 59th birthday today - some thoughts

I was reflecting this morning while watching the news. I'm 59 today and have been here on DU every damn day since almost the beginning. I don't post as much as I used to but I'm here. My user name is a throwback to 2000 when Jesse Jackson implored us to "stay out of the bushes". Our Supreme Court helped to keep us stuck in the bushes and I think as a democracy we have been declining ever since. We had the bright years of Obama and Biden, but the country seems to be crumbling.

I'm tired. I'm worn out fighting on a personal, local, and national level. I started fighting in my 20s. That seems so long ago now.

As a straight, melanin challenged, male I never had a problem seeing how our society and policies enacted by our society privileged me. I never had a problem pointing it out and naming it. I never had a problem fighting against it.

I'm amazed that we are now talking about how we can win back young males because we are too "woke". I shake my head and sigh.

I'm tired.

But it's a privilege to be tired and quit so I won't. I'll just keep trying. There are too many people who are currently being hurt and many who will be hurt by us turning our backs on progress made from critical thinking. That's unacceptable.

So....I'll keep fighting, keep trudging ahead. The battles seem to never be over. I'll keep coming every damn day and will keep making comments here and there. But more importantly I'll pledge to continue fighting in my really red state even when I'm tired and even when all hope seems lost.

Thanks for being my community for the past 24 years, DU.

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You need to step away from the DUmp

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The reason woke ideology turns off people is because people were told they needed to reject racism and embrace equality...which people did happily and that's a good thing.

But the Woke demanded that the people doing the right thing were told they need to make reparations for things that not only they did not commit but also reject. Meanwhile, Woke became a license for others to cut in line or do things that would otherwise be considered bad behavior. Western culture has a strong reflex to reject hypocrisy.

[SVPete]

Reflecting on the cultural rejection underlying your, DU's, and the Dem Party's defeats and current futility would be useful, but that would entail having to admit having been wrong.

Hint: Telling people they are evil because of the color of their skin and using their reproductive plumbing as designed is not a winning message. Nor is blaming people for something that ended 160 years ago.

Dems' failure not that they have failed to communicate their message, but that their message has been heard, understood, and rejected.

[Texacon]

This DUmmie could literally put his money where his mouth is.

Here DUmmie, let me help you with your guilt.  Go find a black woman that seems capable of doing your job.  Take her to your boss and tell him you resign and she will be your replacement.

THEN, and only then, will you have partially lived up to what you claim you're fighting.

Get to crackin' DUmmie, there's no time to spare. 

KC

[SVPete]

This DUmmie could literally put his money where his mouth is.

Here DUmmie, let me help you with your guilt.  Go find a black woman that seems capable of doing your job.  Take her to your boss and tell him you resign and she will be your replacement.

THEN, and only then, will you have partially lived up to what you claim you're fighting.

Get to crackin' DUmmie, there's no time to spare. 

KC

 

[Old n Grumpy]

If you didn’t need to quit fighting and get a life, go out and smell the roses. Be sure to mask up first.