Racism

The term “Racism” in its various forms, has been an overused term over the bulk of the last 10 years. It seems that if you are white and don’t agree with the outgoing President Obama’s policies, you are considered as being racist. 

Never mind the fact that everyone is entitled to have an opinion and maybe – just maybe – I dislike him for other reasons than skin tone. Like how Mr. Hope and Change, Presidential Candidate Obama, who promised to give the American people something different, turns into President Obama, who has given us more of the same shit his predecessor has given us and more.

Yet his supporters turn a blind eye to that and are quick on the draw with the race card, Now we’re not going to get into what Obama has and has not accomplished in his eight years but his legacy will go down in history as being the most racially intoxicated President America has seen in the 21^st century. 

There are certain white/black social constructs that have been born with every human being. Let’s face it, America is a nation that was conceived by slave owners that created a foundation of beliefs that all men were created equal and has a history of genocide and gross mistreatment of blacks (African Americans or whatever they want to be called these days) 

I get it. It was horrible but the operative word there is was. 

I never personally owned slave of any color and I’m sure that the black folks alive today were never slaves, picking cotton for their massah’s, so get over it already. 

How do you plan to progress and move forward if your focus is on the past? 

Racism is more subtle than bigotry. 

It seems in today’s politically correct, overly sensitive, desensitized society of crybabies and whiners, it is perfectly acceptable to walk around screaming black lives matter while society attempts to shame people for being white. Hate is everywhere because of a random accident of birth that no one of us had control over. 

However that same society, that feels that it’s easier to categorize everyone into certain groups – the society that plays that race card like some sort of immunity idol to make excuses for bad decisions and poor life choices… has become the racists they abhor. They are a parody of what they despise and are the most hateful and dangerous in a so called civilized.

I am all for equal rights. It shouldn’t matter what your skin color is or whether or not you have a penis or whatever the label you sport, tags you as. But equal means equal. You have the same rights and freedoms as I do and everyone else. You are free to marry. You are free to walk around anywhere you like, provided it is where the government allows...

And you are also able to be the target of ridicule and jokes, just like the rest of us. You can’t cherry pick what parts of equality you want. It’s all or nothing. I have seen black students want the college campuses to now include “safe zones” essentially bringing back segregation. Be careful what you ask for. The first black president (as his supporters love to point out) will go down in history as the president that set race relations in America back fifty years.

Good job. 

You can agree with me or not, you can call me a racist, I don’t care. That card has been dropped so many times that it has lost all of its power. I have just as much right to have an opinion as anyone and you can’t take it away because you don’t agree. You can show how unstable you are mentally by threatening to kill me but all that would do is prove my point and land your ass in jail. Remember, we live in a (semi) civilized society and there are laws and consequences when you elect to step outside the realm of sanity because your feelings get hurt.

Why Abort It When You Can Wait A Few Years and Fuck It?

Here's an article I wrote back in 2010 as Fed Up American.

Enjoy!

Why Abort It When You Can Wait A Few Years and Fuck It

A history of lies, cover ups, hypocrisy and sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church

By Fed Up American

They march into their dens willingly every week as they obediently give up their financial offerings - and their children. For more than thirty years the victims of sexual abuse have been coming forth and are being ignored by not only the church but also by law enforcement.

Church hierarchy all the way to the Vatican have compared the church with the secular world, arguing that media coverage of the issue has been excessive given that abuse occurs in other institutions. The difference being that “other institutions” found guilty of sexual abuse have been dealt with in the criminal courts. For some reason, the Catholics think of themselves as above the law. Case after case of child molestation by priests has been covered up – literally for centuries.

As Pope Benedict begs for forgiveness, he offers an empty promise of “better screening” of church volunteers and low level workers but again avoids actually punishing any pedophile priest.

Why is it that we are allowing this?

When does the abuser get to decide their fate?

The 2004 John Jay Report was based on a study of 10,667 allegations against 4,392 priests accused of engaging in sexual abuse of a minor between 1950 and 2002. The number 4,392 represents four percent of the 109,694 priests in active ministry during that time. Approximately:

• 56 percent had one reported allegation against them; 27 percent had two or three allegations against them; nearly 14 percent had four to nine allegations against them; 3 percent (149 priests) had 10 or more allegations against them. These 149 priests were responsible for almost 3,000 victims, or 27 percent of the allegations.
• The allegations were substantiated for 1,872 priests and unsubstantiated for 824 priests. They were thought to be credible for 1,671 priests and not credible for 345 priests. 298 priests and deacons who had been completely exonerated are not included in the study.
• 50 percent were 35 years of age or younger at the time of the first instance of alleged abuse.
• Almost 70 percent were ordained before 1970.
• Fewer than 7 percent were reported to have themselves been victims of physical, sexual or emotional abuse as children. Although 19 percent had alcohol or substance abuse problems, only 9 percent were reported to have been using drugs or alcohol during the instances of abuse.

There were approximately 10,667 reported minor victims of clergy sexual abuse during this period:

• Around 81 percent of these victims were male.
• 22.6% were age 10 or younger, 51% were between the ages of 11 and 14, and 27% were between the ages to 15 to 17 years.
• A substantial number (almost 2000) of very young children were victimized by priests during this time period.
• 9,281 victim surveys had information about an investigation. In 6,696 (72%) cases, an investigation of the allegation was carried out. Of these, 4,570 (80%) were substantiated; 1,028 (18%) were unsubstantiated; 83 (1.5%) were found to be false. In 56 cases, priests were reported to deny the allegations.
• More than 10 percent of these allegations were characterized as not substantiated. (This does not mean that the allegation was false; it means only that the diocese or order could not determine whether the alleged abuse actually took place.)
• For approximately 20 percent of the allegations, the priest was deceased or inactive at the time of the receipt of the allegation and typically no investigation was conducted in these circumstances.
• In 38.4% of allegations, the abuse is alleged to have occurred within a single year, in 21.8% the alleged abuse lasted more than a year but less than 2 years, in 28% between 2 and 4 years, in 10.2% between 5 and 9 years and, in under 1%, 10 or more years.

Many of the reported acts of sexual abuse involved fondling or unspecified abuse. There were also a large number of allegations of more grave abuse, including acts of oral sex and intercourse. Detailed information on the nature of the abuse was not reported for 26.6% of the reported allegations. 27.3% of the allegations involved the cleric performing oral sex on the victim. 25.1% of the allegations involved penile penetration or attempted penetration.

It's easy to think that amid the all of the allegations of sexual abuse currently scarring the Catholic Church, the cover-ups that have followed have been locally driven. But as the current Pope Benedict scandal suggests, the church cover-ups appear to implicate its highest ranks including Ratzinger himself.

Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years.

  

Church documents, official testimony, and victim interviews gathered over the past year paint an extraordinary picture of secrecy and deception in the Boston Archdiocese; a culture in which top church officials coddled abusive priests and permitted them to molest again, while stonewalling or paying off the victims of that abuse.

And this goes on and on every day. When are people going to stop supporting these crimes?