Day 14-Something You Wish Didn't Exist

This will be simple
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Racism
-I HATE RACISM!! I grew up learning to be tolerant of everyone who was different. I was taught, along with my sister, to treat others as we would want to be treated. We just can't find it in ourselves to treat someone bad simply because they are of another skin color/race/ethnicity/culture. We both have friends and coworkers who come from different cultures and we both love it. Why do people have to hate someone simply because of skin color/race/religion/language/ethnicity or more? I would love to see the day when we all stop hating one another simply for being different

Greed
-Last time I checked, I'm not overly, beat the Bible-level religious, but isn't greed one of the Seven Deadly Sins? I hate being greedy. That's why I'm not. Me and my sister learned to be good with our money. Don't live beyond your means. If you can't afford it, you don't need it. Sure you can want it all you want, but that's not going to make the money appear in your pocket. Budget. Spend money on the important stuff first-bills. Then you can spoil yourself if you want to. Our mom and stepdad are very thankful we are good with our money. We always and I mean ALWAYS help our parents with money whenever they need. They need a little help paying for a new AC system or furnace? We're there to help. They have good paying jobs, but sometimes things come up that require finances beyond their means. They are thankful we are not greedy and live like we're millionaires [snickering, you're kidding right?] We'll never see a million bucks in a thousand lifetimes unless we play the lottery. And even in those situations, the people who win always live like it's their last day and they go broke in no time. I do not like people being greedy. Besides, me and my sister have plans for our money. Occasionally, me and my sister will take mini vacations. For example, every year, me and her go down to Lexington, Kentucky for Scarefest, a Halloween/horror-themed convention. And when we are not going there, we are going to Columbus, OH for a concert or going to other cities nearby to see the sights.

-It gets worse at Christmas time, when commercials showing people buying expensive cars like Lexus, Jaguars, etc, expensive technology like Apple iPhones, iPads, drones, $80+ animatronic Hatchimal toys, etc for adults and kids. That kind of stuff annoys me about Christmas. When it comes to Christmas, me and my sister usually ask for small stuff. Like for example, this year all I really want is a toy net for my overload of Beanie Babies. I love Beanie Babies and stuffed animals (yeah, it might sound like I'm a kid, but I love plush animals. Don't judge, rofl). All my sister wants for Christmas is electronic drumsticks that when you move them, it sounds like you're playing the drums. In her case, it would be like she is Tre Cool, the drummer from her all-time favorite band Green Day

Day 7-What You Hate Most

I hate a lot of things. Here are some...
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Racism
-I've always hated racism. Why do we all have to hate? If people think that racism died out in the 1960s, you're wrong. Racism is still alive and well and getting stronger every day. People want to hate others simply because they are different. Because they practice different religions. Because they love same sex people rather than opposite sex people. Because they speak different languages or are of a different ethnicity or come from a different country. It pains me to know that this still exists. It makes me cry when I hear just how brutal some people can be simply because someone is different. My mother and father may have been racist, but thankfully they raised me and my sister to be very open and tolerant of everyone. I am so thankful of that. If I going to not like someone, it's not going to be based on their skin color or race. It's going to be because they did something to me to make me lose my respect and trust for them.

Bullying
-As a victim of bullying herself, I can say I hate it. Me and my sister hate it. Our own father bullied us growing up, in addition to classmates doing it. We were made fun of for everything and it's no wonder we have trust issues. We don't trust anyone, which is why we are both single. We have self-esteem and self-confidence issues. We both worry about what someone is thinking about us.

Showing off a lot of $$$
-What I mean is when you hear about these musicians, athletes, actors and others with a lot of money buying all this expensive stuff, probably just to show off. If I had even half the money that these people had, I would spend on things that I needed. Like home improvements for the house me, my mom, stepdad and sister live in. I would take my family on a weeklong trip to Tahiti because my mom and stepdad love it there. I would donate some to charity. I would use it for good. It makes me sick to hear about how some of these people are blowing all their money on expensive crap they don't need. It's just like the lottery. These people win millions and billions and they spend, spend, spend and before they know it, they're living on the streets, homeless. It just pains me to think about how some people can spend like there's no tomorrow when I am working a regular job and can only dream of doing things sometimes. I can only dream of travelling the world, but it costs a lot of money and I have to save up a lot. Basic point-it's stupid to spend money like that. It's ridiculous!!

"I Have a Dream"

I have always loved this speech. It's so simple in its words, but conveys a meaning that seems to have been lost among the years. Essentially, the speech refers to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wanting nothing more than a world where everyone is seeing everyone the same, no matter the race, skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, etc. But, in years past, with groups like the Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter and others, whose sole purpose to only earn rights for certain race groups, his speech and dream has not only not been accomplished, it has been taken and thrown to the ground, stomped on, spit on and finally set ablaze, as if it were not important. This man wanted nothing more than a world where everyone is seen as equals under the watchful eyes of God. Why can't this world just get along? Why must we have people saying that certain people are racist when they really aren't? Why do we have to have people who hate each other because of skin color, ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, sexuality and more?

If it's one thing I truly hate, and I know hate is a strong word, but I truly hate when people have to hate someone for something as simple as skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, nationality or other factors. It makes me want to cry to know that the few white people that are racist make people think that because I am white that I am racist. I am not. I love everyone for who they are. Someone would really have to annoy me or do something extremely bad to me to make me hate them. And if that's the case, I dislike you because you did something wrong, not because of your skin color, not because of your race or ethnicity or any other factors.

What I have always believed is that in every race or ethnicity, there are those very few people who are racially biased that gives everyone a bad name. Something I have always believed is that you should not blame the whole for the actions of a few. Which means that do not blame a whole group of people simply on the actions of just a few.

"I Have a Dream"
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free; one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity; one hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.

So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy; now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice; now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood; now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content, will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the worn threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy, which has engulfed the Negro community, must not lead us to a distrust of all white people. For many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of Civil Rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality; we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one; we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No! no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.  Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi. Go back to Alabama. Go back to South Carolina. Go back to Georgia. Go back to Louisiana. Go back to the slums and ghettos of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.  Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I HAVE A DREAM TODAY!

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama — with its vicious racists, with its Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification — one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I HAVE A DREAM TODAY!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be plain and the crooked places will be made straight, “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.  With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brother-hood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.  And this will be the day. This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire; let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York; let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania; let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado; let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia; let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. “From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”

Rob Halford on LGBT rights

"I always thought things would be better". This is what Rob Halford, front man for legendary British speed metal band Judas Priest had to say about the current state of affairs in the LGBT communities.

He always thought things would improve over time, like the old adage "Time heals all wounds". Apparently some wounds still refuse to heal. He thought things about gay rights would improve, but sadly no. He said he is happy with the warmth and kindness he has received from the hard rock community after coming out of the closet in 1998. He was actually worried at first about coming out as gay, thinking he would suffer from some sort of fallout effect

"I just get so frustrated and angry that here we are in 2017. Because of that society I grew up in, and to a still great extent today, we have this tremendous push back in equality. I always kind of felt, as I was going through my teen years, my twenties and my thirties, things would be better – but they’re not. There’s still a long way to go in America and in my home country. And in some parts of the world, people like me get thrown off buildings. People like me get hung, just because of who we are." He told Blabbermouth.

Rob compared struggles of LGBT people to the types of struggles faced by "people of color" and "people having tremendous difficulties with accepting religions". He added "It’s a crazy world. You’d think that by now we’d have just figured things out – live and let live, love each other and just accept each other for who we are. Life is short."

He recalled the moment he came out as gay during an MTV interview. "The thing about gay people is that, until we come out of the closet, we’re always protecting other people – ‘I can’t do this, because it’s gonna hurt so-and-so.’ We’re trying to live the lives of other people, and that’s the worst thing you can do. You’ve gotta learn to love yourself, then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out. So I said that thing, and I went back to the hotel and I thought, ‘What have I done? There’s going to be a fallout."

After coming out, he experienced not a fallout, but an outpouring of respect and kindness. His bandmates in Judas Priest had no issue with him being gay. Even bassist Ian Hill was quoted as saying "we always knew he was gay but we treated him like a normal human being because that's the way gay people should be treated."

He mentioned "I’d never seen such an outpouring of love in all my life from everybody in the metal community. Rob, we don’t care. We want you to be who you are.’ That was a tremendously uplifting moment for me. This just goes to show you that we in the metal community – probably because of the push back we felt because of the music we love – we are the most tolerant, the most open-minded, the most loving, the most accepting of all the kinds of music in rock’n’roll. So it was a great moment."

Maps of Hell

Summary
-This is something Matt Wells could never have dreamed up in any of his novels. After waking up naked in a cell, not being able to remember who he is or how he got there, he soon learns he is the victim of a sick brainwashing experiment being done by a secret militia known as the North American Nazi Revival, a group dedicated to bringing back the ideals of the Nazis. He occasionally will get glimpses of who he was as he starts remembering, things like musicians he likes, such as Led Zep or The Stones, a blonde woman he thinks he should know. After escaping, he is convicted of 3 murders.

He gets partial help in escaping from a woman named Mary. And soon they are in a hotel hiding, she tries to take him to bed, only to be refused sex. Angered, she calls the police and tells them to look for an Englishman named Matt Wells.

The Color of Friendship

This is a really good movie!!!

The Color of Friendship

Summary
-Mahree Bok is a girl who lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a police man who openly despises blacks, as do all the others subscribing to the hate of Aparthied. He can't hide his joy when civil rights activist Stephen Biko is arrested. Meanwhile, Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US Congressman from California who lives at home with his family in Washington D.C. When Mahree is chosen to do a foreign exchange program at the Dellums' house, she does not expect that her host family will be black and Piper does not expect her new possible friend to be white

Cast
-Lindsey Haun: Mahree Bok
-Shadia Simmons: Piper Dellums
-Carl Lumbly: Ron Dellums
-Penny Johnson: Roscoe Dellums
-Anthony Burnett: Brandy Dellumbs
-Travis Kyle Davis: Erik Dellums
-Melanie Nicholls-King: Flora
-Susan Danford: Merle Bok
-Stephen Jennings: Pieter Bok
-Michael Kanev: Rian Bok

Did You Know?
-Mahree Bok's name in real life was Carrie

Nikki Sixx joins the NOH8 campaign

History

If you're not familiar with this, the NOH8 campaign is an organization promoting same sex marriage. California had recently passed Proposition 8, legalizing gay marriage. Many celebs have come together to do ads for this, including Slash, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons

Sixx had this to say: “Courtney and I believe in freedom of choice, no matter your sex,” Sixx explained in a message accompanying the photo. “We believe you should be able to be yourself, love who you want and not be criticized for it. We believe in LOVE!”


Nick Simmons

Gene Simmons



Paul Stanley

Dave Navarro

Slash

Day 8: 8 Things That Annoy You

Wow, this could mean anything. Here are 8 things that annoy me

Drama on Facebook
-Okay, everyone has those people they're friends with that tend to put whatever is on their mind onto Facebook, feeling that everyone should know what they did over the weekend, so on and so forth. But, sometimes it gets out of control, especially with issues like baby drama. Back then, when someone said "I'm pregnant", you were like "Oh my God, congratulations. When are you due? Are you having a boy or girl?" Nowadays, it's like "wow, she's pregnant too? Is there something going around making all these chicks knocked up?" Nobody needs to know about who's got a new baby daddy

Stupid people
-Here's what this means. People who act completely and utterly ignorant. I swear to God there must be a new layer above the Earth, that I call "The Bozone Layer", meaning that is what makes people stupid

Weirdoes talking to me
-For some God forsaken reason, every time I'm out, somehow a weirdo starts talking to me. When I'm waiting for the bus downtown to come home, I have some homeless guy trying to bum money off me. I think "Dude, I don't even have money for myself, and you want ME to give YOU money? No way, Jack!" Either that or I have a homeless woman trying to get me to buy her a hotdog. And it's worse on the bus! When I'm on the bus going to school or going somewhere, a weirdo starts talking to me. I must have a way with people...

Racism/Discrimination
-Well, from the various posts on stereotypes, racism and discrimination I've done over the past years, everyone knows my stand on this topic. I HATE RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION! I don't understand stereotypes; not everyone in England will be snooty and have bad teeth; not everyone of Asian descent owns a laundromat and knows martial arts; not every black person will be on welfare and be a pimp, drug dealer or some kind of criminal; not every Italian is going to be connected to the mob. I hate when people stereotype others

The Twilight Series
-I don't get why people like these movies. Disney/Pixar made a better love movie in the movie Up than that fugly chick Kristen Stewart did in all the Twilight movies. And nothing against that actor who plays the vampire dude, he is not that sexy. Alex O'Loughlin played one sexy vampire on Moonlight, strangely named Mick for some odd reason, Gerard Butler was a sexy Dracula in Dracula 2000.

Football
-I mean American football, by the way, for those who read this that are from Europe :D. I really don't get American football. What's so great about it? A bunch of guys in tight clothes running around trying to get a ball? Not my idea of sports. I may not play them, but I would rather play soccer than anything. The only thing holding me back is my lungs are not very strong. After years of living with my dad, who was a smoker, my lungs are probably as black as Gavin Rossdale's hair or as yellow as the sun, which is not good at all. I get out of breath quickly, even when I'm trying to work out to burn calories

Commercials showing skinny people
-Wow, as if these commercials don't already advertise eating disorders. Do these commercials even realize the effect they are having on young girls? These commercials for diet pills, saying things like "it's great to be thin" or showing women in skin tight clothing who are bone thin, that's not good. That is going to give young girls the idea that if they do not have the perfect body, with perfect boobs or a perfect rear, that if they are not tall, tan, skinny, with perfect hair, that they are nothing. And in order to look like that, they must starve or work out obsessively

Gossip Magazines
-Magazines like OK, People, Entertainment Weekly, etc. They all drive me bonkers because of the garbage they print on the front. They all seem to have the same things anymore. Stories of "he said, she said" arguments of who's cheating who, who got married, who got divorced, who's having a baby, etc. Anymore, it seems like Jennifer Aniston is making the mags cover more than anyone. I'm so glad I don't read them. Most of the time, the mags I read are the same ones my mom reads, Family Circle because they have good articles on different stuff, AllYou because they have healthy food recipes that sound freakin' awesome, and when it does come to entertainment, I'll read Rolling Stone because they always talk about the latest in music and pop culture history.

I'm Real Tired of Racism!

What really burns me up is people treating people like garbage because of skin color, ethnicity, race, religion, even sexuality!

This is the kind of world kids had to grow up with during the 1950s and 1960s



This is the kind of stuff people of Latino heritage have to face!



All he believed in was a world where everyone lived happily together. Now, I ask you, is that so wrong?

Nowadays, people think it's funny to make fun of other races. Such as stretching out your eyes with your fingers and speaking pidgin English, saying you're Asian, walking around with a bowler hat on and carrying an umbrella saying "Pip, pip, Cheerio!" in a severely horrible inaccurate accent saying you're British, eating watermelon saying you're black, saying you're Latino if more than 5 people are all related and live together.

Famous People of Other Races

Latino Contributions
Che Guevara: Latino revolutionary

Cesar Chavez: activist

Frida Kahlo: Painter

Carlos Santana: Musician

Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Scientist who discovered the structure for the nervous system

American of African Descent Contributions
Martin Luther King Jr: civil rights activist

Thurgood Marshall: first Black Supreme Court Justice

Maya Angelou: poet, author, historian, singer and civil rights activist of African descent

Shirley Chisholm: first black woman elected to Congress

Alex Haley: Author of the award winning novel Roots

Quincy Jones: Music legend winning over 20 Grammy Awards

Sidney Poitier: first black actor to win an Oscar for his film Lilies of the Fields(1963)

Asian Contributions
Sessue Hayakawa: first Asian actor

Jerry Yang: Asian co-founder of Yahoo!

Connie Chung: American-bon Asian news reporter. I think she is so cool!!

Eric Shinseki: American-born Asian to get the role of Chief of Staff in the US Army

Jeremy Lin: American-born Asian member of New York Knicks basketball team

Sammy Lee: first American-born Asian American to win a Gold Olympic medal

Michael Chang: American-born Asian tennis player

Native American Contributions
Chief Joseph: chief of the Nez Perce tribe

Crazy Horse: activist, said "All we wanted was peace and to be left alone."

Leonard Peltier: activist who led the fight in the Pine Ridge Reservation incident

Red Cloud: Warrior who was considered one of the greatest leaders in the 19th century

Sitting Bull: Lakota Indian medicine man and chief

Steve Reevis: Native American actor

Tecumseh: Warrior for the Shawnee Tribe