Mishmash

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I'm pondering cookie making, working out, applying for jobs, hair coloring among other choices. I should work out so I can then color the hair, then apply for jobs online until the hair is done, finish the hair the start the cookies, continue applying for jobs, blogging, whatnot.
Pay some bills, join make-n-dollars.com. I'm reading this book, a memoir, about an Iranian woman who was in Evin as a political prisoner for 2 years. If I was in any country other than this one I am pretty sure I would also be in prison. I have a mouth and it opens. Therefore I AM. I am so blessed to live in a country that allows me to speak my mind, right or wrong, whether I agree with my government, my employer, my friends, family or anyone else for that matter. The great irony of this country, or one of them anyway, is that our military fights for us daily, to protect our right to speak out, even against them, their service and this war, the one we're winning.

1 of the things in this world that seriously gets on my nerves is people who are against something or someone and when you challenge them or ask why they're anti- they get angry with you! Be for or against whatever you choose but please, be able to back it up. For example, being in NC during the Duke Lacrosse case, I got a different, better, more rounded view of the whole situation than, I found out, did the rest of the nation. I am the 1st person to say, if someone has violated someone else sexually, lock them up. I knew very early on that something was very wrong; nothing was adding up. I spoke with my mom, my gramma and my very best friend, all in 3 different states and they were not getting the full story. At any rate, someone asked me what I thought of it and I was blunt: "I hope they punish the girl and exonerate the boys then take every single thing they can from Nifong." The look I got was 'oh, no you didn't!' with a mouth wide open. Then I got even bolder and said 'the sadder thing is that racism runs so deep in Durham and the people are so stupid that they didn't question it. A black girl said she was raped by three [presumed wealthy] white Duke students so therefore she's a helpless victim, they are guilty and that's the end of it. ' The person I was talking to was not from here. But when I asked what the thoughts behind their opinion were I was accused of being racist and then told it was not relevant because they were guilty, I'd see and how dare I not back her. Um, OK. I let it go because sometimes you're just not going to win. As it happened, they were not guilty at all, the case should have died in a folder on the DA's desk but it didn't and Duke, the city of Durham, Nifong, NC and everyone involved has a lot to live with. Funny how nobody came back to say 'I apologize for rushing to judgement of these fine young men.' Nobody who swooped into to accuse and point fingers came back to offer an apology. Nifong and Duke did, under durress. Not a single person from NCCU said a thing. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, ever infamous for getting in the middle of every perceived injustice and making it their business to demand 'justice', did not come back to Durham to say they were wrong. If you cannot back up what you're saying, you might want to think 1st because you could ruin someone's life, reputation.