Racism Still Exists Today

    

     I'm about to tell you a story that will frustrate you.  The year is 1972.  In a small town there is a dedicated and effective science teacher at a high school named Lynn Albuquerque.  Every year her students pass the state exam.  Despite her devotion to her students one of them had approached her and made a threat.  The student said, "When I'm done ramming you, I'm gonna bag your daughter, then ram the bitch through the whole gang."  

     In fear from this threat, Albuquerque notified the school district, the police, and the district attorney's office of the threat by the student.  The student was then suspended for three days.  All seems just, right?  However, the penalty was later reversed.  

     The student was white, and the school administration was white.  However, Albuquerque was black. After the penalty was reversed, Albuquerque was then accused by an administrator for instigating the incident.  When she filed for workers comp relating to emotional trauma from the incident she was then disciplined in retaliation.  She was the third teacher to complain of racism.  What do you think racism?

     Heck yes!  Now, what if I told you this story is real event that happened this year, 2015, and the teacher is white, not black.  The administration and student is black.  Do you still think racism?  To many liberals they would probably argue, no.  

     This story was reported by New York Daily News, please read it!  So, what is the moral of the story and what's my point?  Racism does still exists, but not in the way so many people think.  Today we live in a society where the races are so polarized no one can relate the way we used to.  In no way am I trying to argue reverse racism.  So liberals who are reading, you can put to bed your "check your white privilege" argument.  Rather, what I am arguing is that we are further away from overcoming racism than we were in the 80's, 90's, and millennium.  

    We are so far away that today anytime a white person makes a claim of racism, the liberal population right away blames the victim.  If we ever want to overcome these racial tensions we have to start empathizing for one another.  That will never happen if we start labeling one another.  

    So, what do you think of Albuquerque's story?

Meet Reagan

     Hello world meet Reagan.  No, not the former Reagan who rocked being a U.S. President, but just as equally charming.  He's my new morkie puppy.  For those of you who follow on Instagram, you've already seen a few cute pictures of him.  

   So why the name Reagan, I say why not?  With so few role models to look up today, it's nice to be reminded of one great one on a daily basis.  It's amazing how despite the attempt by liberals to defame Reagan with terms like "Reaganomics"  in an effort to blame this recession on him, their attempt was a fail.  With this upcoming presidential election both Democrats and Republicans are looking for the next Reagan.  Although Obama claims to be, he'll never fill Reagan's shoes.  So, we continue to look.  

   While the world waits, I can say I've already met my next Reagan....Corny, I know!

September 2015

    So, the month of September was a massive fail.  School started back up and I barely even have time to think right now since the semester started with a bang.  Last year of Law School though!!  I will continue as normal for the month of October.  So stay tuned for next month's book.

     As for the review.  I'll add the August Review up here later rather than a September Review.  That also means you can play catch up and read August's book as well, which is UnPlanned written by Abby Johnson.

August Book Review

For the month of August I read the book unPLANNED written by Abby Johnson.  Because of the recent House bill proposing an investigation of Planned Parenthood's funds, it felt like a fitting book. In the her book, Johnson described why she decided to become involved with Planned Parenthood, and why she decided to leave.

I think many young women could sympathize with her reason to join Planned Parenthood.  In college, Johnson went to her school's job fair and saw a booth by Planned Parenthood.  With the booth's happy and feminine pink colors it drew her attention.  At the booth was a Planned Parenthood representative who would later become a mentor for Johnson.  The representative explained to Johnson that Planned Parenthood's mission wasn't to provide women with abortions, but to reduce the numbers of abortions by reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies.  To many young women, this seems like a good mission.  So, Johnson, who needed a career path decided she would plant her feet with Planned Parenthood.

She started as a volunteer and later became one of the organizations directors.  Although she had worked for the organization for many years, she had never been present at an actual abortion procedure at her clinic.  Her job was to council women before the procedure and help them raise funding.  She was excellent at her job, and kept the mission in mind by reducing the number of abortions her clinic provided.  She even was acknowledged for her excellence by her colleagues and was asked by radio stations to discuss her job.

Things started to change for her when she realized how much the organization was spending.  The organization realized how profitable abortions procedures were so the mission then became to increase the number of abortions rather than reduce them.  In her state of Texas, her area built an expensive new facility in Houston, TX and decided that they would start aborting later term fetuses.  These measures and others were an effort by Planned Parenthood to increase their profits.  

Although Johnson was able to reduce costs at her clinic, more so than the ones in her area, it still wasn't enough to match the organizations spending.  She was then reprimanded for not performing enough abortions at her clinic.  Already fed up by the organization's change of heart, one day completely led to her change of heart.

She was asked by an abortionist to assist with an ultra-sound guided abortion.  While the procedure went on she held the probe so that the abortionist could see what he was doing.  This wasn't a normal method of abortion for Planned Parenthood.  It was that day, that Johnson first experienced what happens during an abortion.  She saw the fetus move around inside the uterus and fight for its life.  Although she had had two of her own abortions prior to that incident, she never had seen what went on in the uterus with her own eyes.

That moment changed her life and is what led Abby to decide to leave Planned Parenthood.  The organization had lied to her.  It no longer cared about giving compassionate health care to women.  Planned Parenthood was instead more focused on making money and increasing salaries.  Planned Parenthood had also had lied to her when they said that fetuses were just a ball of cells with no feeling.

My favorite line in her unPLANNED is, "Never trust a decision you don't want your mother to know about."  Isn't this true.  We as people are all given a sense of intuition.  Today so many of us reason our way out of ignoring what our intuition tells us.  In reality all of our guilt and sadness could be prevented when we just listen.

In all, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone with an open mind.  Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life this is a great read.  Abby Johnson has been on both sides of the fence literally advocating for and against abortion.  I think it's probably her greatest strength as she follows along on her new mission.

So what did you think? If you read the book please answer the questions below:

1. Have you ever had a change of heart on abortion? If so, why?
2. What do you think of the quote, "Never trust a decision you don't want your mother to know about?"
3. What was your favorite moment in unPLANNED?  Were there any moments that made you cry or laugh?
4. Looking forward, what was your takeaway from her book?

Lastly, thank you for reading!