Burning in paradise

Tag: america

  • My anti-hero

    Though some people might find the actions of Rodney Hinton Jr. unacceptable in today’s modern society, I believe he’s the anti-hero American needs right now. A black Father willing and ready to risk it all for this son, in an America that sees black men and women as conventional for the America way of life rather apart of it. There is a general sense of being made to feel that we are outsiders in our homeland and somehow we’ve been trespassing since inception. The sight of us warns, malice, unaware psychological hatred, disrespect any being on this earth in his right mind wouldn’t stand for. And some how, as a group, we haven’t seeked revenge.

    How many people haven’t died at the hands of a police officer supposedly “protecting and serving” the community? We’re clearly not there community. Police departments have set up a business invoicing the lives of black men and women with damn near immunity, because nothing changes. Nothing changes but the name of the person being shot, or arrested, or being beaten half to death. And “punishments” are not enough to absolve the repeated habits of our public servants. Leaving the victims and their families with less than they had; less money, less family, less belief in the justice system, less love.

    At some point America should’ve know there’d be a Rodney Hinton Jr. I’m sure I can find another man that killed a cop. But the way that Rodney Hinton Jr. did it had a little extra on. It feels honorable. Like a samurai hunting down the killer of teacher, it’s not just pure revenge. Someone that means the world to me was taken from me and the only way to repay him is kill his killer.

  • America has a problem with crossing the line. for years americans have used politics and religion to cross the line and then try and return to their day-to-day lives as if what the did was moral or right. and it’s been allowed, turned a blind eye to, permitted in some insistences. then when that same line is crossed to infringe on their rights they sympathy and understanding. they want revenge, they want to get even. it’s an eye for an eye on the land of free. some much so that it’s citizen are blind to their neighbors and community members. pushing others into isolation and hysteria because when you aren’t of anything, you have nothing to lose. instead of us americans coming together on issues that can benefits us as a country, health care, standards of living, minimum wage, we fight at the sight of our perceive like rival gang member. fighting and killing each other for a cause long forgotten and a moment of prideful ignorance because we justified in what were doing, because the other side is wrong. but ain’t nobody bigger than the program, if you cross the line, someone else is going to cross the line to get even. if you kill mines, best believe i’m going to kill yours. is the American way. it’s in our leaders, it’s in our institutions, our news, our school, our people, our children. if a kids at the playground right now gets pushed, they’re going to push back. as a country we can’t play the moral high ground, go to church, and indulge in disorder all in the same day. either let it all go to shit, as we go an eye for an eye to the end or lets stop the lies.

  • trump’s raid of dc

    the increased military presence in D.C. isn’t going to change the city in the long term. America loves taking a military approach with everything as our military has been one of our best assets. but all that does it make things happen with force. and forcing Americans to do anything usually results in a large amount of push back. i don’t think you change a cities culture by having more agents and officers making more arrest. that’s just going to cause a larger distrust between citizens and law enforcement. targeting high volume areas where young adults go out to drink and have a good time, doesn’t make me feel safe, it makes me want to avoid d.c. all together. and agents targeting lower income communities where law enforcer knows that they don’t have the public trust seems more predatory than anything else.
    to “fix” the crime problems of d.c. you have to create opportunities for people to make money and have self-worth and have love for the communities that they are in and apart of. like a lot of us cities, the cost of living is beyond what the average American can afford, and rather than fall behind people are going to start taking risk to make up for the difference.
    mobilizing military and government offices on everyday people is only going to cause descent

  • A quick lesson in honor

    Watching America lost its way as billionaire and corporations buyout your local politicians, I think about how far we’ve fallen as a country. Not that we’re great to begin with morally but there was a sense that, given a fair shot you could make something of yourself. That there was a mist of honor that hovered over the grass in the morning. But it feels like words like honor and righteous have long fallen from the American vocabulary. 

    A few weeks ago I came across an old Joe Rogan clip from when he sat down with comedian Ali Siddiq, where Ali explains how a fight between two pimp taught him a value lesson in honor that’s stay with his life. 

    Honor use to be something I would hear in old kung fu or samurai movies but never truly understood what these righteous characters were talking about. I got the sense that the villains didn’t have respect or over stepped their power to bully people. That because they were able to bully the weak they would for nothing more than selfish reasons. 

    Today like the old kung fu movies we have the exact same plot on the political stage and everyone’s waiting for the golden boy to come and save us. 

    I’m not I’m going to wait around for someone to save me, I rather become what I want to see. I righteous man with honor and self respect for me and others.

  • What is burning in paradise?

    It’s my last hope. It’s being in the greatest country in the world, and watching it all burn down to the foundation of what America always had the potential to be. As the waves of the internet erode what is left of humanity and winds of politics push the sails of cultural separation. The elements that have been in our cloth since the beginning of this country. Where our ideas are greater than our actions. The lead up is always better than the follow through. We want to believe that we are the best, but what are we the best at? War? Making profits? Creating ghettos? We have a constitution that reads like a poem and feels like a dream that we can’t quite make a reality. That was intended to draw us together for our strength but even the author didn’t believe the opening words he wrote. America has been nothing but years of rebellion. One man trying to hold another man to his standards of him, standards that he doesn’t impose on himself but believes that it must be this way for the “greater good”. It is sad to say that America, though the idea is beautiful,is full of shit. Full of greed that has hollowed out the few values and morals we have because someone always wants to be in charge. And the person that always wants to be in charge, never should be the one to lead. You lead by example, not out of wanting to lead. The same way a writer doesn’t want to write he just does it. These things pour out of people. But this business doesn’t want who’s best for the job, they want who tries the hardest. The one they can control. Burning in paradise is watching all the destruction and demolition of society enjoying the way down. Trying to find beauty in what feels like the last days of society before total anarchy breaks out, (we might already be there) and take a picture of what’s really happening on the surface instead of what’s being portrayed on the television screen. 

    In simpler words, burning in paradise is my dirty toilet stall where I can throw up from morning sickness or a night of drinking. Covered in the graffiti with discolored tiles, a single bulb flicking in the center, as shit and piss everywhere but the bowl. On the side of a gas station in the middle of nowhere, between a rock and a hard place. And though the floors are dirty and smell like shit in here, I lie on the floor nauseous, trying to figure it out.  

  • America’s Problem with DEI

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/birmingham-mayor-trashes-trumps-dei-executive-order-alabama-fication-us-government?intcmp=tw_fnc

    First day and Trump has signed an executive order to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As someone that kind of watches politics from the outside and doesn’t really participate too much, I can see why Trump, Republicans, and more importantly White Americans would want to dissolve DEI.

    For 100s of years some white Americans have been able to live an exclusive lifestyle, meaning that in some instances they’ve been favored or allowed a life that the majority of minorities have only been able to watch from the outside. 

    If we are honest, the American public has always been divided. Though law markers have passed bills and laws, America’s culture hasn’t been accepting of these changes. These changes have been abrupt, and real change takes time. 

    DEI was originally enforced to allow minorities an opportunity at getting a foot in the door, at a time where the majority of place wouldn’t permit people of color a fair shot or equal opportunity as their white counterparts. Again, Abruptly forcing change instead of resolving racial issues that had created these issues in the first place. 

    Today, White Americans are feeling as if they’re losing power because they can no longer decide who can and who can not step into their “safe spaces”. Places that were exclusively white for years, now have many different faces that don’t remain inside the box White American had them in. And though these minorities aren’t breaking the law, they are unapologetically being themselves. Minorities are no longer living in fear as past generations did and are proud of who and what they are. 

    For years White Americans have been told that other races and ethnic groups were beneath them, for whatever reason they believe. Now they’re seeing that what they once believed, what their father and grandfather once told them may be a lie. And rather than change, they’d rather close the door. 

    Because these DEI laws aren’t only allowing racial minorities into traditionally white space, but also members of the LGBTQ+ community. A community that a lot of Americans have taken issue with and though their issues are not resolved, the LGBTQ+ community are welcomed in these spaces but culturally nothing has changed. 

    White American could feel that they are losing their ground in these places. Even though they outnumber these communities, White Americans don’t want to share these places. Just the very sight of a minority is affront to them.

    America’s been fighting against these changes for generations, both sides passing down the torch to keep the battle going. Both feeling justified in their actions. Both white Americans and minorities are in our own bubbles that are clashing together like a venn diagram, each thinking that the other group is out to get them.