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Rainbow Coalition  

I recently watched the movie titled Alice, staring KiKi Palmer, a movie that debates the chronical aftermath of domesticated help still being held as slaves by plantation landowners.

It is the revered story inspired by true events resulting in the Emancipation Proclamation, signed on January 1, 1863, and how a landowner who fabricated to his slaves they were not free, and how he continued to enslave them for years following being free.

A very great movie to watch.

This is the introduction of my Straight Talk Live piece, I was once advised by my grann, it is not the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog.

I will clarify that statement in more stringent terms from my standpoint.

I have to ask the old adage question, with humble respect what makes a person really free when the chains of bondage have been lifted, when the ink is dried on the proclamation, which tells us so, or as law abiding citizens have been given the chance to earn that American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
 
Therefore, when tongues are spoken of hate, or thoughts are shared to demoralize or has the potential to cause one’s eye to adjust to derogatory phrases in nature.

The question, I propose, should we as the perceived antagonist feel angered, should we take the stance, it is their lack of knowledge of me, not mine, or just simply ignore trouble minds at best.

Sometimes, we must think what the heart and mind process, when we use generalize terms to describe people, places, or things. It goes to saying, one size does not fit all.

In addition, when one’s intellect gravitates to ignorance with defamatory remarks should the punitive of a rebuttal be just as inferior, disengaging, or more superior with a diplomatic response.

Does it make that persona a closet racist, the invisible Ace card of race bating, or simply, angered driven by the perceptual stigmatism of words as using the word nigger or the word black, watermelon, insulting words which may raise mental red flags.

It does give the mind something to think about.

Personally, the word black, nigger, or any other words stated in a defiance element of nature has never bothered me to the point, I will go and hide my head in the sand.

Subsequently, I do not separate my ethnicity by saying, I am French, Haitian, Creole, I thrive under all those beautiful ancestral generations coursing through my blood, regarding my father who is French European descent, and my mother is of Haitian Creole.

I have always identified as just a person in general, who embraces, everyone by heart and not by the hue of their skin tone.

Therefore, when the words are used to define my hue and not me by the content of my character, it is only words, however, for others, who are bi-racial, integrated lineages that do not fit in the boxed category of being African American, I am quite sure it can be insulting, or disheartening.

This is another Straight Talk Live segment

Please be kind until our souls fuse for the moments it takes to say hello and wish each other well on pir journey

SKC, Interim, DON, APRN
Written by SweetKittyCat5
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain
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