True
story: Many years ago, I went to a Christmas function at a Lutheran
Church to raise money for homeless women shelter. The choir was singing.
Everyone was polite and well dressed. They were serving food at the
end of the ceremony. An African American homeless man had come into the
church down stairs and used the rest room to wash himself up. I guess
some of the guest had encountered him because
the whispers started circling the room at how awful the bathroom
smelled. The man came up stairs and joined the party. He had cleaned
himself so much so that I didn't realized I was talking with the
homeless man. He had on a clean shirt and shorts. Mind you when I looked
at him I saw something was a miss with he clothes but really it went
over my head because the man was articulate and fairly young. I would
say late 30's. I was thinking to myself, hey maybe he just fell on hard
times. It happens to the best of us. Right? So, the homeless man helped
himself to some food and was chatting it up with other guess before long
the police showed up and arrested the man. Not only was a livid, I was
disgusted at they hypocrisy. A ceremony for the homeless and they arrest
a homeless man was wanting to eat and socialize like a human being.
This all happened inside of a church. I didn't make a fuss because I was
invited by a friend of a friend who held a position at that church and I
didn't want to make waves for that person. I didn't want to ruin's
somebody's situation when ultimately the homeless was going to be let go
with a warning in a few hours anyway. It baffles me how people can do
such harsh things to each other when it just us on this planet.
Baltimore has become like 10 people in a bathroom with the doors locked
and the lights out all beating the hell out of each other and somebody
broken the mirror and made a knife and one of them rascals snuck a gun
up in the that joint.
Respect Deserves No Applause I wonder what happened to the days where you treat people how you want to be treated. In all fairness I’m a little young to have experience that age being a child of the 70’s. I didn’t see a lot of it growing up but there was some left. However, I’m still old enough to know what respect is, what it should look like and feel like and to be honest I’m not seeing a lot of it lately. For instance, I contacted an upwardly mobile person of business and of some celebrity for potential business opportunity via the internet of course and was given the viral cold shoulder. Now, in all fairness I know they have people coming to them all the time with ideas and it could be hard to vet who’s serious. I didn’t think I came off aloof but you never know what someone is thinking or the opinion they formed about you based on what little information they had. I’m no outsider to the film industry; however I am clearly not an insider in this person’s mind so the p
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