Triggered?

I dropped a post the other day and like all of my posts it is meant to spark debate and cause inspiration and enlightenment of some sort. Sometimes they don’t land or people are afraid to pick them up, but sometimes it sparks a little outrage from what I like to call the usual suspects. This time I wrote “I know people are sorry for their vote but you’re not sorry for your racism?”

The idea behind this was straight forward and it stems from a comment I heard recently that those people who don’t think it was a racist vote decided that racism wasn’t a deal breaker. This skews the vote to align with a racist accord. I got s couple responses. I have to say John did have an intelligent response, which is the point I was trying to make. “I don't apologize for my vote. I certainly don't allow anyone to trample by there unknown "knowledge" of my motivations.” The more popular one is calling me ignorant for making such a stupid comment. Someone was triggered, John was triggered, but intelligently and my point was made. I don’t feel a need to call out or start an argument on Facebook of all places.

Strangely the woman who made the second comment was a landmark graduate. One reason I left landmark is the racial context that I saw in the underlying organization with is supposed to be open and welcoming. I found it is in their own way and in their context. As far as Landmark I still feel the seminars and courses are a benefit in a general finding yourself sort of way, but want to tackle the bigger thigs underlying in society get out of here with that shit. Racism stems from fear and ignorance and a place all about knowledge and education should in my opinion embrace said education. Not. In short, I do not believe in a general sense John is a racist, but John racism was one of the pillars this piece of shit stands on and that was not a dealbreaker for you.

That was the end, but something just occurred to me and I decided to add it to the post and I will tell you. In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, a great film that I declared Sam Rockwell best supporting actor Oscar when I saw the film. Anyway, Frances McDormand has a beautiful monologue with a priest. The government said the gang any of the Crips and Bloods gang members were culpable in any murder because they were a part of the organization. She then turned it in priests who were part of an organization that protects molestation of young boys and that anyone in the organization was culpable because they joined the club… little self-indulgent but, mic drop!