I must be careful with the word ‘equality’. It’s a beautiful word and the basis for our Constitution. Equality can be hijacked and made to mean that nothing is better than anything else. No successes, no failures, everybody is equal. No criminals, no victims, everybody gets equality. No rich, no poor. Everybody the same, except the elite of course, who came up with this interpretation! All this leads to ‘success and failure are proof of injustice.’ If you haven’t heard this said, you will hear it soon.
This is all part of how words are hijacked and modified to divide, dilute, and conquer. Sublimation of goals. Social Justice is another example. The people behind these types of changes don’t really care about the conditions of this country. They want to control to dictate how the wealth is to be ‘justly’ shared, and they want to be the ones to manipulate the ‘sharing’. The Elite think they are smarter than anyone. They don’t believe in equality or equity, and I know they don’t intend to include me as their equal. This last statement makes it personal. Do you think it include, or exclude, you the reader? Make no mistake; they do not intend to share their power. They believe themselves superior, even if they appear to accept you if you join their rhetoric. Unless you have joined them in their corruption. Economic Elites pay politicians to enact policy that favor them. We’ll need to find where these people hide. They move the needle to what is now the American type of socialism, as described later on.
After reading books in which the writer talks about whites as the only cause for the plight of the blacks, leading to the need for black nationalism and how the memory of slavery becomes the black’s only reason justifying their existence with the only value to their life been the claim that others are guilty, I conclude that the authors will claim that my following approach is all messed up. However, I don’t see the results of their approach working well, and I saw the amazing results of what positive belief in people did for the Barrio.
I take this one out-of-sequence detail you’ll see latter in this narrative to tell a short story. While doing a Neighborhood Watch Program in the house of an elderly woman, where three other block residents were attending the presentation of two police officers on how to secure an owner’s house against crime, I had a chance to think about corruption and equality and poverty.
To illustrate, the recommendation of installing deadbolts in the front door as a more secure element of protection, one of the officers got up from the old chair she was occupying and went to the front door to show where and how to install a dead-bolt.
With a surprise voice she said, “There is not even a lock in the doorknob!”
The lady casually responded, “Why have one? There is nothing to steal in this house.”
A lady surviving happily in peace and tranquility up to her 85 years was safely living her life in a house without a lock in her front door doorknob in a neighborhood not even the police dare to go into. We are not all equal. This contented lady is much more equal than most!
I concur with what Booker T. Washington said: “At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” Here is where our emphasis should be. He also said: “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
However, the mind is really your most powerful tool.
Share the good power!
Equity is not ending equally. The opposite, equity allows for just inequalities, by justice and self-determination, not by enforcement. Social justice cannot be enforced. It must be learned on an individual basis.