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Uniting the Minority Communities - Why the Black, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Asian, and Native American Communities need to stand together.

  This is the story of a flag so faded, long in flight Upon which, after years of silence, blue and red have bled to white. So, to those in power and your sycophantic thrall You've raised your tower, but castles fall.  They think we shout because they made us.  No! We revel in our noise. We are the devil they're afraid of. For we fight this war with joy Lay down your guns, sing out in unison. Come! Fight! The inside us, dies in silence. Red lines, streaking up the pavement. See the road beyond.  White lies, creeping up their faces. We keep rolling on.  We rise, even when the pain is all we know.  Well friends, we stand against an army. And alarmingly, they've made their minds up.  But we can't survive that way We tried that before, we wised up.  And no amount of shouting in the streets or at our screens Is going to make them rise up with us.  And see the forest for the trees that burn And further light the fire in our eyes - Red Lines, White ...

I Am The One Thing In Life I Can Control. A Hard Lesson - Learned.

  Death doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep living anyway.  We rise and we fall and we break And we make our mistakes I am the one thing in life I can control I am inimitable, I am an original. - Wait For It, from the musical Hamilton, as written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and performed by Leslie Odom Jr. Hamilton is such a great musical, truly powerful. Lin-Manuel is a genius. And such a sweet and funny guy. Seriously, I sometimes I wonder if the man is human. Now, I did skip a few lines in the above song. Not because they are not good, because they are. But because these are the lines that speak to me the loudest when I listen to the song. And, let's face it, anyone that knows me knows that I am NOT patient and that I am terrible at waiting for anything.  If the whole state of the world and the mental breakdown mess taught me anything, it has taught me that. And it has taught me that I AM the one thing in lif...