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Wow what a week!!! We have a new President and people are tripping. But you know what? I have made a commitment to myself, that I will not stand/sit/talk on the phone to negative people. I can\’t do it. I won\’t do it. Its a wrap for that.
By me being a cashier I catch it. LOL I\’m laughing because when you can sit back be quiet, listen and take in all the things that\’s done and said without saying a word, you really get a chance to see where people really are in life, and in mind. I was ringing up this white lady yesterday, smiling, and greeting her as I normally do my customers, I guess she took my smile as * I\’m happy that Obama Won*. She looks at me, as to study to see if she should/could say what she wanted. I sensed it, but I kept smiling. Then she sees opportunity to *lay it on me*. She says: Congratulations TO YOU for Obama being the first Black African American President*. Then she looks at me as to say : I hope she doesn\’t reach over here and smack me. Waiting on my response. The Lacrease that I\’m trying to get away from wanted to say…. I voted for McCain.
But I didn\’t want to play head games with her
, so I said……. Thank You.
Then she gets comfortable and says to me in this whiny voice. * I was in the chat room last night on line when I said that and this African American Man blast me.* He went off on me so bad. And here you are, didn\’t take it the wrong way. So then she asks me: Do you see anything wrong with what I said? I think God handed that to me, because I wanted to * get with her* when she said it the first time. So I dugg deep into my box of * teaching materials* and grabbed my manual. I said, you know what? First of all OBAMA IS ALL OF OUR PRESIDENT, when you say Congratulations TO ME for Obama being the first President, you are giving ME/AFRICAN AMERICANS credit, praises, Amen\’s, HIGH FIVES for it. I said he is a man for people, not COLOR. Do yall know that went right over her head, and she started talking about how she doesn\’t get why he was so mad at her? I said to myself Lacrease, if you don\’t stop now trying to come up with tips, and scratch pads for people who don\’t get it, you are going to be in trouble. I let her do her talking, um um yeah yeah yeah, and got to my next customer.
Then……………..
I got soooooooooooo many white customers coming through my line after the election, VOLUNTEERING to me that they voted for Obama. Why do they do that? I don\’t understand . That irritates me so bad. Just let me ring up your things, and go on by your way. You don\’t have to stand in my face trying to let me know * you helped history to be made, or that you voted for a black man, or that * were all on the same team*. That\’s fake to me. Why does it even have to be a conversation?
Then…………
This one white lady who comes through my line all the time. Found my smile and decided to tell me, that when Obama won, she gathered up all her * other white friends* and started walking up the streets and blocks celebrating, when they thought of their other friend who is *black* to join them. So they knocked on her door, and she wasn\’t home. I\’m looking at her, saying to myself, WHAT ARE YOU REALLY SAYING LADY? What is the purpose of this conversation?
Then………………..
My coworker who is black, walked over to my register when it slowed down and said, did you just see that short white lady who was just in my line? I said yea, I saw her. She said well she was telling me that she secretly voted for Obama, and that her family doesn\’t know, or they will be MADDDDDD at her. She said that she is so happy that he won.
So, I got to thinking, because I like to visualize me in the other persons shoes before I come to a conclusion. I said to myself okay…… what if McCain had won. Would I go around saying to white people, * Congratulations TO YOU for McCain being the first oldest President? I just cant see me saying that SILLY IGNORANT MESS!! That\’s not a conversation. That\’s being sarcastic and ignorant. I just cant be bothered with I\’m sorry. Would these people give sorry speeches to blacks, had McCain won? I don\’t think so.
The bottom line is this: Obama will be our next President of the United States, no matter who likes it or not. Thanking other blacks will not build up self esteem in those whites who congratulates. If ever a white person felt empowered when only white Presidents were in office, then those people are in for a rude awaking.
For the first time in my life, I looked into a white person\’s eye and saw that THEY BELIEVE that since Obama has won the election and is a Black man, that I have gained some kinda POWER. I see it and I sense it in their conversation, and attitude. This is so crazy to me. For the first time in my life, if what is true what Ive written about what THEY BELIEVE, than I can actually see and feel the POWER that they GIVE to me so freely. Power is handed to me through the EYE TO EYE contact of those white persons * WHO BELIEVE IT*. This has really humbled me, because sometimes there are no words spoken, you can cut the atmosphere with a knife. If * Power* of a President being black feels like what THEY BELIEVE ……they can have this Evil Power Back. All I see is ME ME ME ME. They look at me as if I have the POWER of Favor from MAN, and that they are the underdogs. Guess how I can tell? They are the people who can\’t stop blogging about it, talking about it, thinking about it, and being EVIL about it.
My close friend called me tonight. She was at her sisters restaurant having dinner when this older white man was dinning alone. As he said walking out the door, he said to the people in the dinning area as they talked about our new President. * I hope they Assassinate him*!!! She said everyone stopped in shock. My friend being her said: And I hope you don\’t get into a car accident or have a heart attack going home. He stopped, turned around, looked, then walked out. That\’s just a big Wow to me. It was okay for him to hope bad on someone else, but he stopped in his tracks when it was wished back ON him.
So I say to people like him, and to people like me and my close friend. Don\’t fall to ignorance. The bible says: 38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 1 Corinthians 14:38 (King James Version)
I see another side of people, that most don\’t see. People like him they have issues that they haven\’t dealt with. Yea we all have them, yes yes yes. But when you see someone acting ugly over something they clearly have no TOOLS to use to fix the situation such as the President being black, then you know its something deeper. People are depressed over the economy. WHY? I\’m starting to see that SOME people with money, and power are afraid of being a * peon* if ever* again. They don\’t want to become the people they once were. Money and Power has become their God. For the next 4 years I refuse to *babysit* any body\’s BRUISED EGOS because of our President being black. I\’m not going to do it. It was what it was for 41 years of my life, and for the next 4 years its what it is until I\’m 45. No one need to say Thank you to me. People Prais
es NEVER GEEKED ME UP. God\’s Praises makes my LIFE. If I baked you the prettiest cake in the world when you Thank me, I\’m going to send that same Praise up to God. I don\’t want any of it. Even the hands I use to place the cake in the oven, came from God.
People we all live in this world. We have to learn to Love each other. All we have is each other. Lets all stick together and learn to love. That\’s what God command us to do. Lets do our part in helping our new President bridge the gap between white, blacks, Latinos, Jews, everyone. Its time out for anything racist.
This is for you. Jesus explained that we should consider all the people of the world to be our \”neighbors.\” Just as God loves all His people, so should we. Jesus calls us to extend our love even to our enemies!
You have heard that the law of Moses says, \”Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.\” But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. (NLT, Matthew 5:43-48)
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