Commentary
on this Email that I received from Color of Change.org: My Perspective: I saw some scolding done on Facebook directed
at people who didn’t vote, in which according to statistical data were mostly
blacks and Hispanics. I wrote a
commentary about why I think many didn’t vote.
Think about it people and awaken while you are passing sentence and
judgment, something we are excellent at in America, on people who didn’t
vote. I voted and I give my reason for
voting which I explained in the commentary which I will include in this blog
post, but it is not for the reason that you may think. When I received this email, every reason I
gave as to people, particularly minorities who basically didn’t vote probably
thought and the bottom line is: NOBODY
BELIEVES THEIR VOTE COUNTS and this email proves their point. Why do we need an organization that is asking
citizens to give them more money to “make” lawmakers enforce laws that voters
pass. I voted for prop 47 because it is
a waste of taxpayer’s hard earned money to spend and keep prisons in “big business”
for those who are already rich, while our educational system suffers and our kids
are getting one of the worst educations in most of the civilized nations. Most students come out of high school and don’t
even know what a FICA score is; they don’t know how to create a resume to get a
job, fill out an application to get a job; they don’t know how to interview to get a job;
they don’t know how to create a budget, let alone balance a budget, most
importantly, they don’t know how to READ, or do simple mathematics and many can’t
write or spell. Guess what people, many of these
children are inner city and poor rural children who aren’t getting it at home
either, because their parents are also stuck in the conditioning and
brainwashing of our America, bamboozled by our government and the powers that
be to keep the wars going on everything (drugs, obesity, crime, cancer, etc.)
and all of these things have gotten worse since the 19th Century and
continue to escalate, except what wars should be on, EDUCATION and
SELF-EMPOWERNMENT. Didn’t you see how
the middle class has almost disappeared right before your face. I was born in the 20th century in
the early 50s, so I am not speaking from theory, but from what I have witnessed
and it hasn’t mattered who was president and it hasn’t mattered since the 1st
president; that would be George Washington because our country was founded on
false pretense and hypocrisy because until all men are free, no man is free and
we will continue to self-destruct in chaos, while continuing to devour each
other.
Here is my
commentary as to why I think minorities didn’t vote and this is merely my perspective
only. Perhaps they feel they have nothing to vote
for, except to go within themselves and vote to be the best they can be by
investing in themselves and just a thought:
Perhaps if the whole nation just sat out 2016 and allow the politicians
to continue to warm their seats and while we the masses continue to invest in
ourselves connecting in love and masterminding to quietly restructure the
country by becoming true to ourselves and gain true freedom and only trade with
entrepreneurs who genuinely have our country's best interest at heart, which
are mostly the small businesses struggling to survive while we invest in big
corporations that have more money than they know what to do with. How many yachts, houses, planes, cars, can one
park a butt in for any given time? They give away enough clothes to Goodwill,
Salvation Armies and other used outlets so that you never have to buy new
clothes, appliances, cars, etc. Just
start recycling everything and take your clothes to the cleaners (small
neighborhood business) your school your children, some will get a better
education and you save on clothes, gas, food and they can eat healthier. Change your eating habits and lifestyles to get
healthier and stop making Big Pharma (Pharmaceuticals) richer because we are
obese, suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure, drug, alcohol, and
nicotine addiction, diabetes, overspending on things we don’t need, etc.; you
get the picture) . Stop wasting your hard earned money on entities that use you
to get richer, while you struggle to just survive and that includes the
religious institutions. Just think about it; why are so many Christians
struggling right along with everybody else while they give their hard earned
money to these institutions because they are made to feel guilty. God is in you
just like he is in your clergy, so why are you poor and the clergy isn't? Shouldn't you be as successful as your leader
or mastermind if you are truly connecting?
And how long does it take for you to hear the same thing over and over
and you are still at a standstill with little to no progress? How are you
living vs. how are they living? Do you
question anything or just continue to be conditioned to be what someone else
tells you, you should be or will you be what you were born to be and use your
own GPS (God Power System) coupled with your own DNA (Divine Natural
Ability) that you were born with. God
did not make anyone greater than YOU and when you recognize how great you are
and use the fruit of the spirit (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control) to catapult you to your highest calling; you
can live in joy, peace, happiness, and prosperity which is why the universe is
so big. There is enough to go around, but the GREED gets in the way and many
just throw their hands up and give up. Never, ever give up on your dream. Just a brief story, Born a poor black girl
circa early 1950’s in the South, I could have given up - single parent home, welfare, etc., but none
of that deterred my dreams, thus I am where I am today, retired from one career
at 55, just as I planned at 22 and living and doing more than I
envisioned. As long as I breathe and can
move with grace and greatness, I will never retire. Life is a beautiful
journey, errors and omissions and everything else. So start your "Brain
Power" today, shift some gears and GO!
Never allow an election to deter or defer your dreams. These people are
just "seat warmers" getting richer at the people's expense and we the
masses are allowing it because instead of looking internally, we continue to
look externally. And just think about it, America was founded on false pretense
starting with the 1st president, because until all men are free, no
man is free. Laws on top of existing laws that nobody reads or enforce is part
of the massive problem. Politics is like religion, in practice for years with
worse results - I think that is the problem, we have practiced too long. When is rehearsal over and when can we sing a
solid song of praise with less flaws?
Your Power Lies Within You - Let It Loose! By the way, I voted because
too many died for a right we should have had from the founding of this country which
is part of the false pretense and hypocrisy.
Voters overwhelmingly
approved Prop 47 and positioned California as a nationwide leader in sentencing
reform!
Help us make sure these
powerful reforms are fully realized during the implementation process:
Dear
Louise,
Congratulations!
On a tough election day, you and millions of other Californians did something
incredible. Voters overwhelmingly approved the Prop 47 ballot initiative
and gave Black Californians a fighting chance to interrupt the vicious cycle
of addiction and mental-health related incarceration. Voters have changed
the course of decades of misguided, incarceration-only policies, which have
destabilized Black families and drained valuable resources from Black and
brown communities.
But
there’s one big problem: many of the same lawmakers who have lacked the
political courage to end the state's four-decade long mass incarceration
crisis are now responsible for implementing the reforms and allocating Prop
47 resources. While we celebrate this incredible victory, we must
continue to organize or else lawmakers could dismantle our historic reforms
during the implementation process and upcoming budget negotiations. We've
worked too long and too hard to let that happen.
Currently,
California spends $62,396 per prisoner annually, while only spending $9,200
per student. The state has built 22 new prisons in the past 30 years, and
only one public university.2 Now that voters have approved Prop 47
and reformed the broken sentencing laws, fewer people will be sent to prison,
meaning that the state will have no reason to continue its prison building
addiction. By pushing the state toward alternatives to mass incarceration
there may come a day when the state builds 22 new schools, instead of 22 new
prisons. But that's a long way off and we’ll need your support to get
there.
With
Prop 47, the possibilities in front of us are endless. Now that the state
is no longer focused on overcharging and filling costly and dangerous prisons
with low-level non-violent Black and brown folks, finite state resources can
be spent where they’re most needed: to fully fund education and interrupt
the vicious cycle of recidivism.
Thank
you for showing up to the polls this past Tuesday and taking reform into your
own hands! Now this hard work and sustained organizing must continue. Prop 47
reforms and resources will be rolled out over the course of the next 5 years,3
and we’ll need lots of support from members like you to sustain this
powerful movement and to push back against lawmakers who seek to defy the
will of voters by working to restore the state’s failed mass incarceration
agenda.
Thanks
and peace,
—
Matt, Rashad, Arisha, Jamar and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
November 7th, 2014
References
1.
"Prop. 47 puts state at center of a national push for sentencing
reform," The L.A. Times, 11-01-2014
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/4305?t=7&akid=3873.1952928.rM-VHR
2.
"Can California’s Prop 47 counter the problem of overcrowded
prisons?," Al Jazeera America, 10-30-2014
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/4322?t=9&akid=3873.1952928.rM-VHR
3.
"California Just Became the First State to Defelonize Drug Use,"
Vice, 11-05-2014
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/4323?t=11&akid=3873.1952928.rM-VHR |
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