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Hey, You Look Like Me!
When you are a member of an underrepresented group, it is always nice to have mentors, who look like you, act like you, are the same gender and the same ethnic background. In America, and especially Sacramento, California, Mulatto men (African American and European American) are truly represented. When I was student a Sac State, many teachers found it hard to profile me and thought I was sick because my skin was not as dark as they are used to seeing African American men, and some people will treat you like an outcast. I have African American friends, but they do not treat me like they treat their other black friends. Like, I do not get invited to their parties and clubs because I do not fit in. So I pretty much got over being included and became okay with being an individual. After all, the white people, my age, have done me far worse than the blacks. They let me know off the bat that they did not like me because they all ganged up on me and made fun of me and spread very nasty rumors, and took my resources and tried to get me in trouble and thought it was funny; that is totally fine.
What is done in the dark will always be seen in the light. Now, I know not to open myself up to others so easily. However, as I was watching the CBS Evening News tonight, and saw Maurice DuBois, who is an American television anchorman, for WCBS-TV in New York City, and the CBS network, was anchoring the World news desk tonight and that made me feel good. Not only is his skin the same color as mine, but his hair is the same texture and I know he has had to have had some of the same experiences as me. So in a way one feels like they are having a conversation with someone who can truly relate to them. Just seeing Mr. DuBois made my eyes light up and made me feel better as a person. You do not see many black men on TV, especially not Mulattos, and it is nice to be represented, as it gives you hope that people will get used to looking at you and other opportunities will open up for you.
Growing up, I never thought so much about skin color, ethnic background, or anything, we were all just a bunch of kids having fun. So to me, I was just like everyone else. However, as an adult, hearing people, who are also African America or European American, talking about your skin color because it is not as dark as they likely was a total culture shock to me. There are some benefit, like for the past four years, since I let my hair grown back, I get compliments on it almost daily–people love the natural reddish brown color and the waviness of my hair, and that is so nice. Another great thing is I am relatively tall, smart, good-looking and look younger than I am. However, no one should be made to feel differently or discriminated against. Today, being underrepresented usually means you are part of a group of people that comprises less than half of some population. Sociologist are very interested in these the status of underrepresented groups. However, when people use the term minority group, they are usually defining a category of people who are set apart for unequal treatment because of physical or cultural characteristics. While there are many kinds of minorities, including religions groups, people with disabilities and others, it is important that the term minority is not always about ethnic background. When individuals are discriminated against, this means that they are not just facing prejudice attitudes, they are facing actions from others who treat them unequally because of their group membership.
Discrimination may be personal, legal or institutional. Personal discrimination includes attacks on minority group members, from social slights (everyone in the office gets together and harasses you because you look different), and insults to murder. In legal discrimination, minority group members are denied lawful access to public institutions, jobs, housing, and social rewards. There is also another kind of discrimination, institutional discrimination, where people are treated unequally because of beliefs and actions that are embedded in social institutions. During the 1960s, largely due to the Civil Rights movement and government action, many forms of racial and ethnic discrimination declined in the United States. However, the pendulum appears to be shifting in the opposite direction. People seem to be in an uproar about ethnic background. However, I just want to make it clear, most of the European Americans that I make contact with, in person, are very nice and polite, as well as others. It is just when you are different and seen as competition, others in the field want to crush you before you get started. And I have to really give a shout out to my mentor, she is also a reporter and has done a great job. I do not want her to feel slighted, nor do I want to embarrass her by saying her name. The things I have learned from you, I will always be carrying with me. I know she understand what I am going through and has had many of the same experiences. Thank you.
Emotions and Professional Humans
Love may do much, but friendship shall do wonders; friendship, the nobler passion of the mind, born with the soul, must still with that survive, when love, the silly baby of the fancy, can be no more. At school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being; it heals the soul. However, in our computer-oriented, information-valuing society, emotions and emotional people are often ridiculed. It is usually not a compliment when you are described as someone who is emotional. Being human (and not humanoid), we are all emotional, though we may deny it. We all have emotional responses to events and people and potentials for far more feeling than we often express. People who tell others not to be so emotional are usually intellectually aware of this fact, but what they are probably really trying to say is do not let your emotions get the best of you, you do not want to be a slave to your feelings. However, human beings are not mechanical or machinelike. Nonetheless, white collar workers, people who perform professional, managerial, or administrative work, spend 28 percent of their workweek checking emails, up to 74 times a day, even when they are eating dinner or in bed. White-collar workers–well, most of them were possessed by electronic messages a stunning 13.5 hours a day, well into the evening. There is no particular virtue in being humanoid, unless you are a robot, which most of us are trained to become. When you do things you like, it boosts your energy levels, and makes you feel rested. No one is meant to just work and never have fun. The idea behind giving people a break is to let them relax and let them rest. Then they can come back to work with a fresh spirit. Individuals have a full range of emotional responses, and if we are honest, most of us would admit that we would prefer a bit more feeling in the people around us.
However, some cultures, like Native Americans and journalists place high value on lack of emotional responses among their men or employees (male and female). The idea is prizing the stoic face of the brave, who could face danger without showing fear, or who could stand intense pain without showing any response. Although emotions are a natural part of the human experience, they do not want you expressing emotions because it may make you seem weak or may allow people to label your emotional responses as right, wrong, good, bad, normal and abnormal. The philosophy is that the members of your culture devalue emotional involvement and emotional expression, as it urges detachment and evenness of attitude. This will likely make it harder for people to read or judge you and you are less likely to be physically, mentally or verbally attacked. Productive people show only certain emotions and only at appropriate times and in the culturally prescribed ways. However, sick people, that is, those who are not acceptable, who do not conform, who puzzle or displease us—display all the sick emotions. A person may be told that nice people do not ever show anger, at least not very dramatically. It is not even okay to express emotions of your face, unless it is a smile, at the right time that way you never let anyone get the best of you or predict your responses. Civilized people do not let their emotions get the best of them or make a fool of themselves. Experts suggest that it is best to suppress your emotions and outwardly appear formal, academic, or aloof in one’s relations with others. Some also suggest not to let too many people get too close to you, emotionally. However, the warning is while you will be more protected, it could lead to a lonely life and you probably will not have too many close, rewarding relationships. Nonetheless, quality is better than quantity. This day in age, so many people are out to get others and hustle you and steal information. Remember, you are always being judged and labeled, accepted or rejected, repressed or acted out. There are a thousand familiar disputes, which reason never can decide.
A World of Our Own—Must End Poverty in America
A good mind ought to be incited and a bad mind restrained. A virtuous mind soon finds consolation is itself. Miracles seem impossible, just because they break the laws of Nature. There seems something blasphemous in supposing the Universe can mar ITS own order. The misery that overspreads so vastly a part of mankind exists chiefly because those are able to relieve it do not know that it exists. To love and live well is wished of many, but incident to few. To live and to love well is incident to few, but indifferent to all. To love without reason is an argument of lust, to live without love, a token of folly. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting. There is nothing in lobe more requisite or more delectable than pleasant and wise conference; neither can there arise any storm in love which by wit is not turned into a calm. Tender love maketh greatest show of blossoms, but tried love bringeth forth sweetest juice. If we want to understand the dark forces within ourselves, we must give up the haughty idea that we are unique in all creation. Just as every part of your body is interrelated with every other part, so each of us is interrelated and integrated into the larger human system—the society which we are a part of. And, by extension, each society is directly related to every other one, as nation is to nation, continent to continent. The entire planet can be seen ultimately as a gigantic network or web of interwoven parts. One thing you learn when you study your first spider web is that a slight pressure on any single strand of that web is felt everywhere on it. That is how the spider uses her web: when a bit of food lands there and becomes stuck in the sticky coatings, vibrations travel all along the network, and whenever the spider lies in watchful waiting, it picks up these vibrations and gets the message.
So it is in the network of human experiences: pressure on any part of it affects the rest of the web. An earthquake in Napa, California affects individuals the World over, as does a war in Ferguson, Missouri or Stockton, California, as the political-religious conflict going on in the State Capitol in Sacramento with the arrested of four Democratic Senator’s this year: Ben Hueso (DUI), Leland Yee (Corruption, guns, murder for hire in an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint against him and 25 other people.), Ron Calderon (taking bribes in exchange for government acts), and Rod Wright (was convicted of perjury and voter fraud for lying about his legal residence in Los Angeles County) and the ethnic unrest all around the World. The network ties each particle of humankind to every other particle. There are virtually no dark or hidden groups of human life on the globe. When stone age tribes are discovered, in Stockton, California, it is only a matter of time until the entire World knows about them, and information gleaned from studying their lives provides insight to every culture and nation in the World. This sort of interrelatedness has its disadvantages. Communications media have literally shrunk the distances between individuals and peoples. A decreasing amount of privacy is available to each of us. Is this lack of privacy important? We think so. People drive enormous please from involvement with each other, but each of us also need time apart, time alone. Our own personal lives are in need of development just as much as our social lives. If privacy is eliminated, what happens to the interior World of each of us? What happens to meditation, introspection, self-study, to contact with oneself? These must not be lost in the patterns of growth and ever-increasing interinvolvement. Does that confuse and complicate the situation even more? It should not surprise you. Among the perennial and essential human dilemmas is this each of us must somehow find ways of developing our own life, gaining personal growth and depth, reaping advantages for ourselves—while still cultivating a healthy, outgoing, cooperative, and caring relationship with other people. This is almost as difficult as running in two directions, at the same time.
And I hear you thinking, “What if that was me, I would want someone to speak up?” Well, that aspect of it is a little hard to deal with, so I guess since no one wants to do the right then, whenever one feels betrayed or guilty, just go meditate and focus on the bright future. Trust, me, I really feel so good and am able to repress the memories, but then to look at these people know they know want is going on, but will not say anything makes me feel kind of blue and makes me want to distance myself from them. I have tried to share some of the best insights of the best human minds of the human species. These only begin to scratch the surface of what we need to know. The human relations problems yet to be explored are immense, and the solution will come no more easily than did the others. Children use words to express how they feel; adults use words to hide how they feel. To me, one of the most baffling aspects of the behavior of men and women in highly-responsible positions in some segment of our society, is their comparative lack of concern for—perhaps its lack of awareness of—the factor of communication, as such, in the problems and situations in which they have to deal—It is communication that makes human society possible. For communication to take place, the receiver must also be receptive. That means more than just having one’s ears cleaned. One must also want or need to get the message and be willing to decide ad fit it into his existing pattern of ideas or associations. If a student is asleep in a classroom, even the professor’s most exciting and beautiful message will not get through to him.
If I am angry at you, I may not receive your message, no matter what or how you try to send. If you are unwilling to hear me because you do not like or respect people of my gender, ethnic background, profession or generation, then I am spilling my message onto unreceptive ground. Influence through mass communication need not be blatant—it can be very subtle indeed. Even when communicators are not making a direct attempt to sell something, they can succeed in influencing the way we look at the World. All I have to say is we need to stop rewarding and supporting those we know have done wrong. And in the media, it would be nice to get news stations with different content, and not have every station go to commercial break at the same time. Sometimes it feels like the TV news, is all one station, ran by the government, with different labels. You all, for the most part do a great job, we understand that is just how the business has evolved, but we want to change the World back to when Walter Cronkite was reading the trade papers on national TV. The diversity is great, but more originality, research and reports. Through education, books, encounter and sensitivity groups, and programs on television and other media, we are trying to bring about awareness of such issues: racism (only one race), sexism, elitism—all these are increasingly being brought to our collective attentions. This is the era of consciousness-raising, when underrepresented groups are seeking to awaken their members to the abuses of racism and the glories of ethnic heritages long in disrepute, and when women are trying to draw the attention of other women (and men) to the problem of sexual stereotyping and discrimination. However, the major problems in society are the institutions they are controlled by evil people.
However, we are firmly committed to the idea that human nature is not instinctively violent—that we all start out neutral in this regard. It is in the learning that occurs in the home, the neighborhood, the classroom, the playground, the streets, shops, offices, military institutions, newsrooms and other places that individuals acquire the skills and attitudes needed to do violence. Cooperation, respect, appreciation, mutual interaction, and selflessness are often taught ineffectively, irrelevantly, or too late! To pretend to be a good person is not enough. Much violence is spawned by frustration. Frustration will always be found where people’s basic needs go unsatisfied—so if you are jealous of someone, it means you have an inadequacy someone in your life to make you hate that person. Where poverty is the frustrator, it is up to not only the government, but also to individual citizens and groups to pressure for the eradication of poverty. So before we jam pack this country, with people who do not belong here, we need to help the ones who are here legally, first and foremost. If one gets ahead at the expense of another individual—or of whole groups of people—that inequality pollutes the society of which we are all a part of, and one cannot be surprised at the violence that results. Some violence is created by mental and emotional disorders, for which successful treatment is sometimes available. However, society needs to create an improved climate of acceptance for these programs of help and therapy that are available. The stigma attached to mental illness must be eradicated, and so must the feeling of shame or weakness that keeps many people from seeking available professional help when they need it. On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.
6.0 Magnitude Earthquake in Napa, California
Some residences were sent running from their homes, in the night, hollering and screaming like they lost their minds; on 24 August 2014, at about 3.30am, there was a magnitude 6.0 Earthquake, in Napa, California and it was felt all the way in Sacramento, California, which is about 50 miles away.
More than 1 Million people felt this earthquake. That Earthquake tore some stuff up, buildings lost their faces, 100 gas leaks, 30 water mains broke, roads cracked open and six major fires broke out and high way 12 maybe shutting down. No deaths, 87 injuries, and three critically injured, one including a toddler, who had a fireplace fall on him, and someone has a heart attack. 30,000 people in Napa are without power.
There have been 48 aftershocks, so far. However, many buildings have been damages, the front façade of buildings have broken away, a few houses collapsed. The earthquake occurred near the well-known West Napa Fault, and the less well known Carneros-Franklin Faults, which juxtapose different suites of rocks. The Hayward-Rodgers Creek Fault system has a 32 percent probability of generating a large earthquake (Magnitude 6.7 to 7.4) by the year 2030, and the Concord-Green Valley Fault system has a 6 percent chance of generating a large earthquake Magnitude 6.7 in the same time period. Franklin Fault has thought to be dormant for 1.6 million years and may have caused this Napa Earthquake.
The World, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that if the victim of its falsehood and malice have a clear conscience, he cannot fail to be sustained under his trails, and somehow or other to come right at last: in which case, say they who have hunted him down,–though we certainly do not expect it—nobody will be better pleased than we. Whereas, the world would do well to reflect, that injustice is in itself, to every generous properly constituted mind, an injury, of all others the most insufferable, the most torturing, and the most hard to bear; and that many clear consciences have gone to their account elsewhere, and many sound hearts have broken, because of this very reason; the knowledge of their own deserts only aggravating their suffering, and rendering them the less endurable.
Cinderella Story Book Mansions in Oakland, California
Come stay in a beautiful room in a 100-year Queen Anne Victorian Mansion, this area is truly a hidden jewel waiting to be explored. There is really something special about being here. The Victorian architecture was designed to look like castles and villas from many different places and eras, in single housing development, creating a uniform architectural look. There are mini-mansions and on streets like Trestle Glen, and there is a mix of smaller houses and large houses. Follow the winding brick path, to the arched front door, of this story book mansion, magical curb appeal with wood shake roof and English country garden. The entry room opens to an enchanting living room with high beam ceilings and wood-burning fireplace. Hardwood floors continue into the dining room and new high-end kitchen. Victorian craftsmanship is marvelous, extravagant, and beautiful.
Normandy Gardens is one Oakland’s prettiest neighborhoods with tree lined streets and charming houses. Many Oakland neighborhoods have a strong sense of community. The Storybook homes, of Normandy Gardens, are beautifully designed and magical. They were constructed by W.W. Dixon and built by R.C.Hillen in the 1920s. W.W.Dixon was the architect of Hillen’s Modest Mansions, on Picardy Drive, in Oakland, California. These houses were designed to replicate, in a whimsical way, the architecture of Normandy. The houses are spacious and extremely well laid out. The neighborhood is cohesive and even has its own newsletter. Every Christmas there is a Christmas Tree placed on the grassy median on the street. Holiday Lights is a web page that shows Picardy Drive with all its Christmas Tree lights lit up.
Victorian craftsmanship is marvelous, extravagant, and beautiful. If Victorian homes, in Sacramento, CA, are in short supply, but high demand, and expensive, they are the homes of the elite because basically buyers will sell to–not only one with the best offer, but someone they feel will care for the home and it its authenticity. So just because you have the best offer, does not mean that your bid will be accepted. A lot of hard work and love goes into those homes, and they are no longer in production, nor can they really be reproduced. But at the same time, buyers do not want a Victorian home that has lost its charm. Buys want Victorian homes the ornate features, like the lath and plaster walls, silver chandeliers, parquet floors, mahogany walls, tiffany stained glass and lead glass windows, hand crafted Italian marble fire places.
Historians love the witches cap, towers, fish scale shingles, cartouche, insert balcony, cupola, finial, ridge cresting and gable. Buyers also cherish the historical wall paper, and all the clever details on the stairs, door hinges, and if you have any original furniture—that is even better. A true historian also adores the formal layout of a real Victorian homes—the less modern features, the more attractive the home is. The more original the Victorian home is, the more desirable it will be to buyers because owning a Victorian home, is like owing a piece of history.
People still feel the charm. If Victorian homes, in Sacramento, CA, are in short supply, but high demand, and expensive, they are the homes of the elite because basically buyers will sell to–not only one with the best offer, but someone they feel will care for the home and it its authenticity. So just because you have the best offer, does not mean that your bid will be accepted. A lot of hard work and love goes into those homes, and they are no longer in production, nor can they really be reproduced. But at the same time, buyers do not want a Victorian home that has lost its charm.
Buyers want Victorian homes the ornate features, like the lath and plaster walls, silver chandeliers, parquet floors, mahogany walls, Tiffany-stained glass and lead glass windows, hand crafted Italian marble fireplaces. Historians love the witches cap, towers, fish scale shingles, cartouche, insert balcony, cupola, finial, ridge cresting and gable. Buyers also cherish the historical wallpaper, and all the clever details on the stairs, door hinges, and if you have any original furniture—that is even better. A true historian also adores the formal layout of a real Victorian homes—the less modern features, the more attractive the home is. The more original the Victorian home is, the more desirable it will be to buyers because owning a Victorian home, is like owing a piece of history.
Democratic Senator Benjamin Hueso Wet and Wild
In the cold courts of justice, the dull head demands oaths, and holy writ proofs; but in the warm halls of the heart one single, untestified memory’s spark shall suffice to enkindle such a blaze of evidence, that all the corners of conviction are as suddenly lighted up as a midnight city by a burning building, which on every side whirls it reddened brands. After leaving a Latino Caucus dinner, at the Il Fornaio restaurant, honoring Latino Legislators, Democratic Senator Benjamin Hueso, of San Diego, California was arrested on 22 August 2014, at 3:27 a.m., in Sacramento California for Driving Under the Influence, and going the wrong way, on a one-way street. Senator Benjamin Hueso was elected to the senate in March 2013; he was not released from jail until 10am 22 August 2014. The arrest was conducted by the prestigious California Highway Patrol. It is reported that the Senator’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit of .08. “When I first came up to you, I could smell alcohol from your mouth Senator Benjamin Hueso.” The Senator has been described as, defendant and had watery eyes and heavy eyelids, and wreaked of the odor of an alcoholic beverage . . . and was unsteady on his feet and he failed two Breathalyzers — blowing .159 and .113. The meeting was over at 9pm, and Democratic Senator Benjamin Hueso sat in a conference room, for two hours, chatting, snacking, drinking and playing cards. By the end of two hours he had drunk three cocktails, but had no idea how many shots were in each. However, most people will tell us that they would not drive when they get to about an .04 or .05. There is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same. Therefore, justice, whose only possible mode of proceeding is to punish in present time for what is done in past time, must always a person more or less similar to, but never identical with, the one who committed the offense, and therein must be no justice.
There is so such thing as Earthly justice, and especially none under the head of Christendom. Senator Benjamin Hueso “Quite the coward, it would appear. Ben Hueso wants to play dirty politics, but not to stand in front of the media to defend his unethical actions.” Just a year ago, Senator Benjamin Hueso claims he witnessed Former San Diego City Councilman, Carl DeMaio masturbating, in City Hall bathroom. However, many would like to know Why was Senator Benjamin Hueso stalking DeMaio in a private restroom, lying in wait, to rush a door, which locks shut after entry? Why did Senator Benjamin Hueso intentionally rush out of a council meeting to go to that restroom to grab the door before it closed behind Carl DeMaio? Senator Benjamin Hueso behavior is downright creepy, and his ulterior motives are crystal clear: he is determined to bring down City Councilman, Carl DeMaio, a Republican, at any cost … including the loss of his own integrity and moral compass. Senator Benjamin Hueso loved to watch men masturbate. It is a little fetish of his. Senator Benjamin Hueso had been watching Carl Demaio for a while. He would listen at the door and wait to wait to hear the low moans or slapping sounds. Ben Hueso, in 2009, acknowledged to this reporter that he witnessed Carl DeMaio engaging in the masturbation practice twice. Describing the scene that spring, when Senator Benjamin walked in on Carl DeMaio, who was in front of a urinal, with his pants down, Senator Benjamin Hueso said: ‘Carl DeMaio was masturbating. Then Senator Benjamin Hueso then slide his hands down to touch himself. Supposedly, Carl Demaio groaned as he erupted, spurting hot, white jets of it over his hand, landing thickly on his belly. Just the sight of his produce made Senator Benjamin Hueso release too, shuddering against the doorway, pressing himself there, like he was going to collapse. However, this time the senator could not just sneak out like he had often done in the past. Carl then jumped, caught by surprise. He jumped to the sink … saying “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” about six times and then washed his hands, darted out.’” Men in masses, when goaded by disappointment, are never just.
Do People Fear Black Men?
Every human being, when given over to the devil, is sure to have the wizard mark upon his hand, in one form or another. Being a black man, in America, is not easy. In many cases, it is like you have no rights. You work hard, go to school, attend college, and people still want to profile you, slander you and label you as a criminal, in some cases, to the point that you are blacklisted, but have done nothing wrong. And when you do make it, and show how talented and skillful you are, sometime factions develop in the office, to work against you. They will talk about you, call you horrible names and tell people bad things about you that are just not true. They will call you a dog, so you seem less human and makes them feel more comfortable insulting you, but they would never really treat a dog as bad as they treat black men. Some of these people even go as far as trying to set you up and make themselves look like a victim, so you can be arrested. And they will even steal from you and physically attack you, but the police do nothing about it. When you come from a middle-class background and have never had to struggle, but find yourself not having the thing you want, or need because others have made it impossible for you to live the life you want it can be frustrating. You have an expensive car, with expensive repair bills, you need new clothes and work so hard and want to take vacations—not just get buy, working harder than others, and see them doing less work, but making more than you. It just is not right, but as a black man, society works against you. No one defends you or stands up for your rights, and others will always look at you as a criminal, even if you are not.
Cold and nakedness are evils introduced by luxury and custom. I really do not like to address cultural issues, but there is a major call for justice, in America right now. Too many young black teens and young men keep being shot and killed by the police. It is estimated that every 28 hours, a black man is killed by police or vigilantes. Most recently, on 9th August 2014, Michael Brown, and unarmed black teenager was shot dead by police. He was shot four times in the arm and twice in the head, which is really tragic and said. This murder has caused uproars in America. People are sick and tired of black men being profiled, and killed and treated like dirt and denied employment just because of the color of their skin. Not too long ago, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a vigilante, just for walking home from the store. Many parents are afraid that their young black man will be killed just because someone does not like his appearance. And some are wondering why police and others seem to like to kill black men. Well, part of it is genocide, a lot of people fear powerful black men and want to bring as many of them down, as possible, before they become strong, powerful and wealthy leaders. Others truly fear black men, and do not value their lives. Some police are really scared of black men, especially when they do not have backup, so if they see a black man moving a certain way, they get scared and shoot because the police think their lives are in danger. It is also possible that several police are working and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
All police experience dangerous situations in their careers, sometimes on the daily basis. For some, they are able to brush the encounters off and move on, and need help and are not getting the help they need, so many police officers are going to work scared, and with shell shock. When in danger, it is natural to feel fear; however, people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are in a way broke and cannot properly respond to critical situations. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that is prompted by a frightening event that the individual either experienced it or witnessed. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, helplessness, or extreme fear, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event, having little or no social support after the event. When this happens, a person may feel that their life is in danger and will take you out, instead of waiting around to find out if their feelings are justified or irrational. PTSD affects about 7.7 million American adults, but it can occur at any age, including childhood. The bottom-line is that racism is out of control in American and more people, especially those who deal with the public need to take classes on cultural relations and communications so they can learn how to react to each other’s. Still, many people will say that most crimes are committed by black people, and that is just not true. You are 66 percent more likely to be attacked by a white man. Most wars, which kill millions or people, are started by white men, most white-collar criminals are white men. This does not mean that white men are bad, or black men are, it just says that our system is out of balance. You do not know, for you could never learn it from your own heart, which is all purity and rectitude, what a mixture of good there may be in things evil; and how the greatest criminal, if you look at his conduct from his point of view, or from any side point, may seem not so unquestionably guilty, after all. We are never nearer to evil than when we believe a person is incapable of wrongdoing.
Randolph Harris II International Institute 