One Step Forward Two Steps Back?

Jazz My Friend...I hated ALMOST and hesitated SLIGHTLY to hit the like button:( pure shame of the country...too many years too many crimes...stained nation...to fill up the page with my paltry words would not change those sad facts...I see it experience it almost daily at work...pathetic peoples spouting hate...HOW to be born so miserable and carry such bile...never enough healing before pain rips anew...
Strong read my fine fellow!!!

Had me worried for a minute, thinking I had written the worst poem ever! I wouldn't have thought that racism would be that prevalent at your job.

In reflection that truth comes back to me---legislation while needed can't do it all.

You couldn't write something bad if you tried Jazz Your all heart full of song!!!
Yeah...IT SHOULDNT BE THERE...we are VERY pressured but STILL MANY freedoms not enjoyed by MOST work environments..."THEY" treat our voices with respect and it CAN be a very free thinking company...but "the man" STILL persists here and there amongst us...loose lipped bigots who smile the smile and curse at a turn---needless to say we kinda steer clear of one another unless its a "have to deal with each other" situation...with H.R (no not puff n stuff) it becomes "he said She said bull crap politics...this area is still VERY backwoods rednecks...only some were lucky enough to go to college...sigh...yeah can never do it all...the collective voice for some reason is STILL the hardest to hear at times---but a cricket BUG is loud as the mouth that spews such hate...makes me proud and glad theres good hearts like you working in places that TRULY impact a change to future society!!!

The nicest person I have ever met, outside of my dad always regretted that he "wasn't kinder". He always stated in several books that "hate takes so much energy". So there it is...

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Thanks but this is one I wish I had never been inspired to write.

Profound and Astonishing ink, my friend!

Thanks---I can honestly say that your description never would have entered my brain without your comment so I appreciate you taking some time to share your opinion.

I think that this piece was Great JAZZ!!
I related to some of those lines 'cause I've been too hell and back, ( I knocked but nobody was home )

I loved the write and content!!
PEN on!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sir Lancelott

It is sad that you had to make a trip to hell but comforting to know that you made it back.

Thanks bro!

Lmao

Jazz,
You shout from the rooftops my man, the world needs more guy's like youself to stand for many. Great pen yet again.
Koreanghost

Thanks but the accolades need to go the people on the front lines. So many people dealing with real struggles for survival yet maintain more dignity those playing in the corridors of political power.

If I had to deal with abject poverty or employment discrimination on a level others have, I am not so sure I would be as forgiving to my fellow man.

Jazz ,
I totally agree man. If the powers that be would stop playing games and concern themselves with what's on their doorstep, things may progress?
Koreanghost

Pretty much it is going to be individuals. The so called fourth estate (the press), no longer seems to be a check on institutional transgressions.

Tough stuff and GOOD. I'm very much taken with it.
Iris

Thanks, it certainly is hard to claim that the history of the US is boring!

It pains me reading this...
though the content moved me.
I like this sir.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. The good thing about human steps is we can change the direction they go in.

loving the witty intelligence you use to portray such sensitive topics within our education systems.

thanks---I very much thought at the outset of being in the class I could reach everyone that walked into my class. Maybe I did but like a parent, there comes a time in which they are independent. Even if I was the greatest educator in the world that would have been far from a guarantee that those students, who still had to navigate high school, would turn out okay.