Episode 8- Don't Despair Resist!

As I woke this morning to the constant reminder of the threat that looms upon our democracy and society. Instead of giving into despair and my valid fears, I am inspired to resist. To never legitimize the fraudulent elect. To never give Cheeto Musollini the accolades he craved. To ignore those who seek more divisions in an already divided nation. As I said in my cast below this divide and conquer strategy sadly worked on us. Now those of us who know how bad this Regime will be must come together. No more fighting each other or finger pointing, NO we must RESIST! And we must take on untruths, from corporate ran media and government. We can fight this, we have the power to, but we must be willing to use that power. If you are with me welcome to the United States of Resistance!

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The Social Aware Nightmare Cast Episode 7: Chess Pieces

It is time to be real frank about the outcome of this election. About the true winner, and what we all will end up losing by our collective ignorance. The fact that hate has won and will infect our government was bad enough. But we slept collectively while a foreign influence infected our democracy as well. Please tune in and understand just how badly things are about to get:

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To those asking for Unity after this election...

I wanted to start this off by saying just how tired I am today.

I know I am not the only one, you could see it all day, faces

of shock and dejection. The reality of this outcome setting in.

But outside of tired I feel angry, literally spitting fire mad at

this country right now. Not just at the bigots who like roaches

came out to support a unequivocally unfit person to be our

President elect. But to all those who were sneaky about

supporting him. To those who smiled in my face in my

neighborhood. Worked along side me, to those who acted

like Allies...the demographics don't lie. To those especially

asking me to accept and unify so that they don't feel uncomfortable

about the role they played in downplaying how dangerous Trump

is and will be for our entire country. But most especially those of

us he deemed unworthy of his vision of a “Great America...”

I guess to you its okay, you're not the targets, you're not

the wrong ethnicity, wrong orientation, wrong religion.

No this government tells you you're “Right” all the damn time

they based their platforms off giving you a social bubble

so they can actively hold the rest of us down, vilify us.

Lock us up for revenue, and fuck over our children.

I have been socially aware for many years now,

I try hard to fight the good fight. Because I thought I knew

who my true enemies are. But after election 2016 I realized

you all hid in plain sight. You all worried about making

shit great for you, and gave the rest of us a big middle finger.

I shouldn't be surprised, look at how some former friends

react when a young black child is shot. When that idiot woman

who refused to do her job filling out marriage certificates for

gay couples. How many of them chimed in with their fragile

responses of “the cops were just doing their job” “stand your

ground.” “Gay people shouldn't try to push their stuff onto us.”

These same fuckers are now trying to call for us to unify...

Under a president elect who is openly bigoted and racist?

Under his VP who is anti LGBT and passed sadistically

cruel legislation against Women's rights? You want all

of us who have put up with a year of Trump mocking

shunning or out right scapegoating us to sing Kumbaya

and act like shit is going to be okay?

Hell to the No!

I will repeat myself

HELL TO THE NO!

NO I will not unify!

NO I will not act happy its over!

NO I do not feel any fucking hope whatsoever!

As this fucking circus starts we are facing Sarah Palin

Rudy Guilliani, Joe Arpacio and a whole host of

fuckery in positions of power that will be a detriment

to many American citizens. You know the ones you

already felt made your America not so great...

We are facing the reality of a return of stop and frisk,

profiling on a national level. Of climate change denial

so strong that even a fucking Tsunami in the middle of

Times Square won't shake these numbskulls who deny it.

Women will have to worry about our bodies being literally

govern to the point where making our own decisions are done for.

Gays may expect a repeal of their marriage equality.

Muslims are facing being marked by badges if not tattoos

Mexicans legal and other wise face violence and deportation

along with many of us who are deemed unworthy by this new

administration.

So if you come at me in the next few days asking me to unify,

to accept this shit show we are going to have to swallow

whether we want to or not. I am going to give you a hearty

fuck you and get the fuck out of my face. I am not about to lay

in bed with a bunch of people who hate me, just so you can feel

comfortable.

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The Social Aware Nightmare Cast: Episode 5- Protests of Injustice is American

Hello just uploaded episode 5 of the Social Aware Nightmare podcast. In this episode I talk about the recent unarmed shootings of Terrence Cutter, Keith Scott and how people are way too focus on the protests and not the cause of said protests. I find it sad that when we peacefully protests like Mr. Kaepernick we are told to leave our country. When we take to the streets in anger we are dehumanized as "animals." Well folks when you have law enforcement trained to view us as such and kill us even without weapons. Anger is the response you get. Especially since Police have proved time after time with the likes of Dylan Roof, James Holmes, Austin Harouff and the recent bomber of NY and NJ that they can apprehend dangerous armed men and bring them into justice. Point blank the message is, if you don't see the issue you are a part of it...

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The Social Aware Nightmare Cast: Episode 4- If you Are not apart of the solution.

Welcome to the next addition to the Social Aware Nightmare Cast, in this episode I talk about one of the biggest factors in the tight hold on racism. And its not the people who most think are the obvious answer. Lets face it, passive people who allow racism to go unchecked, or even worse think those who face discrimination should just silently hope it goes away are just as bad as those who are (somewhat) bold about their bigotry. And yeah I talk about those yahoos to, anonymous keyboard warriors who spout hate and talks of genocide. I get frank about politics, privilege and discuss society parallels such as calling a 32 year old Ryan Lochte a "kid" versus the recent murder of 13 year old Tyre King. So please tune in and enjoy.


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The Social Aware Nightmare Podcast: Episode three: The Status Quo

Hello and welcome to another Friday podcast for the Social Aware Nightmare. In this cast I discuss the status quo. And how being one of  "the good ones." Is no longer a valid excuse to turn a blind eye to racism and bigotry. I also discuss how humans need to let go of the need to fear and create enemies where there are none. And I touch up on how Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek was a vision that humanity should embrace.

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Serious thoughts: The seduction of negative against acts of good

Society needs to stop highlighting the negative and shine a light on the positive.

 

Today after my morning social media jaunt, I found myself truly thinking about the way society has slanted. While I do my part to fight against discrimination in many forms, I realized a trend of socially acceptable attacks on people trying to do good. In recent times we have seen stories of acts of good involved with negative, from the ninety year old veteran who was arrested in Florida for feeding the homeless. To the Pennsylvanian woman who was fined six hundred dollars for feeding needy children without a permit, or the Idaho cafeteria manager that was fired for given needy children free food. I noticed a serious trend in our society allowing acts of good and kindness to be penalized and or made out to be criminal acts. Now fortunately for the Veteran who said he will continue to help no matter what the homeless law against feeding says, and the Idaho manager being offered a job in the school district back, we do see that sometimes positive wins out. 

It is time to question why helping others is viewed so negative as of late

But it needs to be questioned why we allow laws against helping others? Why is it bureaucratically okay to penalize people for trying to help others? Why is society allowing this to be acceptable in any form? America likes to brag about being a nation with many Christians. It should be a leading force in acts to help the needy, shelter and feed the homeless and lift on and other up from the bottom. Yet we are more known globally for our high incarceration record, then our acts of actual charity and that is very troubling. I think about the things I do on a personal level, my child's school holds weekend food and clothing drives. I try each month to give something whether its time, money or items that we no long use. But is it enough?

I know how fortunate I am, every night I lay in a clean bed, my stomach full from a good meal. My child has clean clothes, goes to a great school, we have proper shelter and live well. But there are many fellow American's that do not have this, and while some will say things like “what have they done to earn it?” I say its not my place to even think like this, for me I don't care what a families situation is, if their kids need food I want to feed them. If I have clothing I cannot/do not use I want someone to make use of them. I think as I get older and realize how much junk I held on to that I never intend to use or bother with that could help others who would use it. I started to really stream line and align my whole life better. I know I can't give monetarily all the time, but as long as I have something be it time or items I give. 

Attacking a charity should never be considered an acceptable norm

 

The latest recipients of negative attacks for doing good is The Clinton Foundation.The charity itself has come under intense scrutiny due to Hillary Clinton's bid for president. Even though the charity itself has an A+ rating and is one hundred percent transparent even more so than leading charities such as the Red Cross. The negative coverage and allegations of “alleged pay for play” has dogged the foundation. So far the only thing that has been uncovered is just how much the Clinton Foundation has helped several sick and needy people. Spending millions in donations towards Aids medicine for the sick in places like Africa. So for those who nay say, or wish to believe in a conspiracy that the Clinton's have used funds anywhere else, facts are proving that those conspiracies are nothing but Myths. It truly makes me question why people are so eager to believe the bad before the good though? Have we really fallen so far that we are more enticed by negative stories and doubtful of the true good? I feel as if every day I am waking up to a wall tilting on a balance between hopeful progress and falling into the lowest pit of harm and despair. All I can do is keep my eyes open, my mind and heart focus and hope with all my soul that the people who continue to strive for good wont give up. And do my part as well to shine good in a more positive light. 

Here are a few links to charities in my state to help needy families:

NC Charity Vault a website dedicated to listing NC charities by county 

The North Carolina Food Bank 

Mission Thrift Bank NC: Donate clothing, furniture time 

You can also do your part by using google or seeing if your school/church or social clubs host such events. Every one can help in small ways and make being good a positive thing again. 

The Social Aware Nightmare Cast: Episode 2 The Stigmas of Stereotypes.

I decided to record episode 2 tonight after being fired up by the assinine speech given by Donald Trump in Arizona tonight. I wanted to express my views on how stereotypes have become a socially acceptable norm in society. One that allows us to lump people into negative tropes instead of seeing them as fellow equal human beings. I talk about people who use faith as a weapon, to people who use gender and transgender bias. I thank all of those who have been tuning into my show and blog and look forward to hearing feed back as I continue my strikes against hatred and intolerance in all forms.

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