Inna Hardison reblogged MacAthurs post Humble Pie... Can I have a LARGE slice..please?
There are a few people on AR, that are here by mistake. Their literary talent is so obvious, that they should be somewhere else, or at least form the writers guild on AR. Both Inna and John MacArthur are in this group. You can't read them fast, you have to breathe them, to feel them, get ready to drop tears... One reblogging the other was a surprise, but it is a terrific reading, this time of MacArthur's post.
My problem with Inna's "Political" posts is that she gets the unfair advantage by the skill of presenting her ideas and hypnotizing the audience, and then we can be fed any BS. The form is usually so wonderful that the substance does not matter any more.
Read this post. It is a masterpiece. I enjoyed reading it... as a short novel, as fiction, Not as the reflection upon the election ended yesterday, to which I thought I would not have to return. But with my nasty habit of trying to identify substance, I was not quite convinced.
I have a problem with someone changing the heart standing with the ballot in front of the machine. It did not tell me that the person was serious. Was he overcome by preaching? I can understand the history lesson, but aren't we talking about the future? Read the wonderful blog again, it is about the past. Will it help the future? Stop spending the money and "we will increase taxes" are different tunes. Can it be that one is for celebration, and the other is for the funeral?
17 years ago I was able to come from a country that based their policies on those working people. Everything for the working people. I do hear familiar notes in the promise of this big humble pie. All you need is to believe, and then things will change. I remember it. My mom listened to that all her life, I listened to that 40 years of my life there. And, boy, we believed, and believed, and believed...
I am not comfortable with preaching, even when it causes the tears. I am not comfortable with believing. I was promised the biggest Humble pie, we all had a big slice...but in 1991 I fled the country.
When we came to New York, the mayor of New York was Mr. Dinkins. I remember reading similar things about him then, showing him and celebrating the way the country made it from the difficult 60 to the first black mayor of New York. He was not a great or even good mayor. He was a very weak and indecisive mayor. Had it anything to do with him being black? No. Had it anything to do with believing and preaching? I think so.
This is a cause for celebration if we are celebrating the civil progress, the racial progress made by the nation. Rightfully so.
But what does it have to do with the Presidency? Yeah, really, what?
Do we want him to go to History as the First Black President, or as the great American President? Who he will be?
When it is only believing, and then the change will come, be careful. Don't choke on a large slice. Even if this is a Humble pie.
Jon Zolsky, your Daytona Beach Connection
www.BeautifulFlorida.com
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