Youth....aah....the blossoming imagination....the burgeoning brain
power....the billowing egos sailing off to uncharted seas! Hey, I was
there once....you were too. Oh, I had my passions. Robert Kennedy was
one. Racial equality was another. I'll relate a little story on the
latter:
It was the summer of 1970... I was in the army and stationed for a month only at a small training school just north of San Fransisco. We were headed to Vietnam. The small group of us were sitting in the enlisted man's club downing beers and talking about, well I don't remember what we were talking about but all of us were white except for one black man. Remember, this was the end of the 1960s. As the hours passed he was the center of attention from everyone but me as I equally distributed my questions and comments. It must have looked as if I tried to take the attention away from him. Not that he wanted to be the center of attention but my actions made it seem as if I didn't like him being there. I don't blame him for thinking this, I didn't construct the situation, I just did my best under the circumstances. The talk and laughter came to a sudden halt as he looked at me and said...."What's the matter....don't you like black people?" I told him that treating a person special and fawning over them solely because of their color was condescending and actually treating that person as if they were not an equal. I wasn't going to do that. We became good friends.
A similar situation is playing out today on our college campuses but not without instigation. I've never lost that passion for racial equality, in fact it has only heightened in light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but I have been called a racist. Communism calls anyone a racist or a xenophobe or a homophobe or intolerant, who does not tow the line, for such charges are a great means to divide a nation and further their revolution. Civil Rights leader and author Jesse Lee Peterson has described the radical group on the University of Missouri campus as "A bunch of little communists in training." The college campus of today can be described as 'giving' candy to babies.' The parents are gone, replaced by new authority figures. Give them sugar until they are sick and then force feed them the Rx.....socialism.
Bullying is all these people know. You can see it in the Climate Change scam being perpetrated upon us. You can see it in the absurd defense of Planned Parenthood. You can see it in the blitzkrieg of the Gay Agenda and you can see it in Obamacare and executive orders that circumvent our constitution. These people are the least tolerant of all. A very recent poll states that 27% of Democrats are in favor of prosecuting those who do no agree with them on global warming!
This current situation on the University of Missouri campus is so manipulated.....so obvious in the intentions of its designers that it may raise more questions than was anticipated. The answers to which can be found from Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin to Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama. These are not uncharted seas, rather every nautical mile on this sea of red is documented.... every fathom down into the abyss of totalitarianism logged.
Mr. Peterson's latest book is The ANTIDOTE: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood and his website can be visited at bondinfo.org.
It was the summer of 1970... I was in the army and stationed for a month only at a small training school just north of San Fransisco. We were headed to Vietnam. The small group of us were sitting in the enlisted man's club downing beers and talking about, well I don't remember what we were talking about but all of us were white except for one black man. Remember, this was the end of the 1960s. As the hours passed he was the center of attention from everyone but me as I equally distributed my questions and comments. It must have looked as if I tried to take the attention away from him. Not that he wanted to be the center of attention but my actions made it seem as if I didn't like him being there. I don't blame him for thinking this, I didn't construct the situation, I just did my best under the circumstances. The talk and laughter came to a sudden halt as he looked at me and said...."What's the matter....don't you like black people?" I told him that treating a person special and fawning over them solely because of their color was condescending and actually treating that person as if they were not an equal. I wasn't going to do that. We became good friends.
A similar situation is playing out today on our college campuses but not without instigation. I've never lost that passion for racial equality, in fact it has only heightened in light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but I have been called a racist. Communism calls anyone a racist or a xenophobe or a homophobe or intolerant, who does not tow the line, for such charges are a great means to divide a nation and further their revolution. Civil Rights leader and author Jesse Lee Peterson has described the radical group on the University of Missouri campus as "A bunch of little communists in training." The college campus of today can be described as 'giving' candy to babies.' The parents are gone, replaced by new authority figures. Give them sugar until they are sick and then force feed them the Rx.....socialism.
Bullying is all these people know. You can see it in the Climate Change scam being perpetrated upon us. You can see it in the absurd defense of Planned Parenthood. You can see it in the blitzkrieg of the Gay Agenda and you can see it in Obamacare and executive orders that circumvent our constitution. These people are the least tolerant of all. A very recent poll states that 27% of Democrats are in favor of prosecuting those who do no agree with them on global warming!
This current situation on the University of Missouri campus is so manipulated.....so obvious in the intentions of its designers that it may raise more questions than was anticipated. The answers to which can be found from Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin to Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama. These are not uncharted seas, rather every nautical mile on this sea of red is documented.... every fathom down into the abyss of totalitarianism logged.
Mr. Peterson's latest book is The ANTIDOTE: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood and his website can be visited at bondinfo.org.
