Know who you are and where you came from

This is a piece I think I should share with you all. So there is this older man I have been helping at work and one morning he asked me, " So Ron, where are you from again?''-I responded, Ghana. He said so have you ever been to another other country around you and which countries are around you by the way? I skipped the first part of his question and answered the second, and then another question and on and on and on. Then after I was over with what he needed I was about to exit and he called, "Ron, you are a very bright young man". I didn't know why he just said that because I told him what I knew with me from only God knows when and so I asked, and he said while I was talking he was also on his ipad making sure I knew what I was talking about.

I was shock, but told him he didn't have to do that because I am from the African Continent and hence I know who I am and where I came from and hence he didn't have to be testing me. He said  he wasn't necessarily testing me and I understood that etc.

Anyway, the point is not whether he tested me or not and it is certainly not whether I knew my stuff or not but the point I want to make is that, we should always strive to know who we are and where we are from no matter where we find ourselves.

I knew who I was for sure and where I came from and on daily basis I never forget to remind myself especially living in a foreign nation like America.

This I thought it was interesting and I never stopped thinking about it.

Have a great week, everyone.

Pal Ron

BE HAPPY FROM RCC

Here is 150 Years of the Arlington National Cemetery – Pic of the Week from LOC

Arlington House, Robert E. Lee’s former home, stands high above the Kennedy family gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. (Source: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of 

I went there twice and man, it is a super Sacred Ground and the immediate graveyard in this picture is where the Late President John F. Kennedy as been buried.

The ill of Racism

What is wrong with this picture? So this poor black gentleman in Northern New York got Niggarized for simply starting his car in a parking lot in a town in Buffalo. I can't believe this but obviously something something just ain't right and or, the woman is psychologically compromised.

Check out the video below:

                                                      "And her kids were watching her"

The other thing about this whole picture is the scene she happily created in front of her two little children. If this doesn't scare you, what would? These are babies and it wouldn't be surprising to see them grow up as bigots because examples according to Immanuel Kant, are the gold card of judgement. Like mother like children and that is one reason why racism is here to stay and will live with us as long one the human civilization endures. It's inherited and bequeathed on the younger ones, actually in a plain language it is taught just like this woman is indirectly teaching that to her children. 

It is rather unfortunate and I don't think it was supposed to always be this way but it is what it is of course.

My generation I must comment is a little moderate on the issue of race and I do hope we can make an impact in overcoming this social canker one day.

Have a great week pals.