What does the slogan #BlackLivesMatter mean now?

👮🏻 1000 people were killed in police operations in the US in 2015, nearly a third of them black. Despite the fact that black people are 13% of the population they commit a disproportionate amount of crime, largely against other black people.

What does the slogan #BlackLivesMatter mean now?

We know it was born out of the fraudulent claims surrounding thug life Mike Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri.

Do black lives matter only when it involves a white police officer? It seems to be so. I don't see any protests against the thugs and gangs violence that happens in Chicago every weekend. Do you?

Isn't that in itself the 'racism' of low expectations? Where we've come to expect it in those communities?

When Black America addresses the problems so prevalent in Black America there won't be a need for profiling or the expectation that black males are more violent than other ethnic demographics. 

Statistics show that blacks commit more crime than whites and Hispanics, combined. That can be laid at the feet of the devolution of the black family where women have multiple children, each with different absentee fathers, thanks to the Welfare System of the Social Justice Democrat policies that have enabled the devolution of the familial unit whilst keeping those families impoverished, shackled to inner city schools, with no hope to better themselves.

It's a dismal cycle of modern enslavement to the failed political system of 'democratic' socialism.

At the end of the day, we are Americans first. The colour of our skin shouldn't even be a consideration. We are all in this together. 

Further reading: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36749925

Laterz,

Starr

American Dream? Or Nightmare?

The 1963 Birmingham Pledge is as relevant today as it was then.

In many ways, America has come a long way, baby. The elections of Barack Obama gives testimony to it. 

Yet, the events in #Dallas, #Valdosta, #Missouri, #Tennessee, #Minnesota, and #Louisiana seem to tell a different story, one where the political elites seek power by causing divisiveness and anarchy. 

Saul Alinsky 101: Top down, Bottom up, and Inside out. Rules for Radicals, dedicated to the first Radical, Lucifer himself. Ironically, both Clinton and Obama 'worship' at the altar of Alinsky. 

Hillary wrote her collegiate thesis on Alinsky and Obama conducted workshops and helped fund the Alinsky Academy.

Let's step back and look at MLKs Pledge. Why it mattered then, and why it matters now.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

America must choose who it is we are going to be and what kind of future we are going to leave to our posterity.

What I've witnessed on the news lately hasn't been representative of 'my' America....this isn't the country I grew up believing in. My America is one where she was great because she was good. Yes, there have been grave injustices in her history, from the genocide of the Native Americans to the enslavement and unjust servitude of the Irish, Africans, and Chinese at different periods throughout. Having ancestry from Irish and Cherokee, I am well aware of those horrendous events. 

Progressivism will be the death of the American Dream. Therein lies the tragedy.

It seems the Dream of MLK has become a nightmare from which there is no awakening. 

A good read: http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/why-martin-luther-kings-pledge-of-nonviolence-matters-today/

Later Dayz,

Starr

Dystopian America: Coming 2016

It won't be long before we are living in a Dystopian World. 

Dystopia is the opposite of Utopia and is defined as: "an imaginary place where people lead dehumanised and often fearful lives."

Dystopian European Politics are  Coming to America faster than my cat can wink her eye.

Europe's Politics of Dystopia: "In Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Austria, and Sweden, the popularity of Populist, anti-EU, anti-migrant, right-wing (Nationalist) Parties is on the rise....

Failure to act decisively now will lead to the eventual failure of the 'peaceful, integrated, globalised, supranational' state that is the EU, and the rise of dystopian nationalist regimes."

It's already begun and with the choices set before us this election cycle, we have a Populist in Trump and a Social Marxist in Clinton. Neither choice bodes well for the average American citizen. 

Hillary has already proven she's above the law and it will only get worse. The fix was in as soon as she won the Democrat nomination. 

Trump has essentially portrayed the same elitist mindset in his lifelong history of gaming the political system, his many bankruptcies and fraudulent endeavours, some of which are still engaged in lawsuits.

Neither are good choices and if these two clown shows are the best America has to offer, we are doomed as a nation and the world will suffer with our passage into obscurity. 

We may as well write 'Ichabod' over the door to freedom and democracy and head to the house!

For Mama

She taught me how to tie my shoes, to embroider, and crochet. 

She made me laugh and made me cry in so many different ways. 

She baked and cooked for all of my life, her homemade soup the best. 

I cannot count the hours she spent to take care of all the rest.

She worked so hard to provide for us, as single mom's all do. 

She offered words of wisdom, I wish I'd heeded too. 

My life is so different now, without her guiding hand. 

She's celebrating Mother's Day with Jesus, in that great and promised land.

Happy Mother's Day, Mama. I love you and miss you. 

~Starla 💞x

Friends: Cheaper than a Psychiatrist

I've come to realise that sometimes your best friends are the ones you never see. They are often the ones with the words of encouragement that give us strength and remind us that it takes a little hell to see what heaven is worth. But it's worth the fight. #livestrong 

Sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you, on some level, belong together. As lovers, as friends, sometimes family, or as something entirely different. You click and you just work. You have an understanding with one another, whether you're in love or partners in crime. 

You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances and they help you feel alive. 

They may not understand where you're going, but they understand where you've come from. They don't judge you for the broken pieces of your life that you are left holding in your hands. The brokenness is what kind of draws you closer. They've been broken too.

I don't know if that makes me believe in divine providence, coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.

L8R Dayz,

Starr

Journey

The journey, long,

My feet, trudge on

To the tune of

A mournful song.

How long, how long?

Must we endure

This hopeless, helpless life

Without a cure?

The days are bleak,

Of which I seldom speak....

Run one into the other,

And then Repeat.

The road I walk,

Solitary and forlorn

Has been walked

By others who've gone before.

I see the signs along the way,

Encouraging me to endure and stay.

Be faithful. Be true.

There is still much to do.

Is it too much to ask?

For happiness?

For love returned?

A shoulder to cry on?

Or a hand to hold?

Loneliness, my boon companion,

Despondency, my lover.

They are faithful to the end,

More so than any other.

Later Dayz,

Starr

Live Free

Parents. They die. Abandoning us and leaving us bereft and unable to function. Especially if we are caregivers.

Parents leave us at the emotional baggage depot holding baggage that is not our own. Our parents' fuck-ups should never have been ours. Yet, they die and leave us emotionally traumatised and unable to cope with the very big, real world without them in it.  

To be free one must forgive and grieve  properly. 

I know. I had much to forgive! It doesn't change what happened or how your parents treated you, but it does free you from the bonds and shackles they imposed. 

At some point we HAVE to grow up and realise WE are responsible for US. It is our choice now, whether or not we live in the shadows of our parents or validate every hurt they inflicted through their carelessness and selfishness. 

We were children. This emotional burden, It is NOT ours to bear. Ever. It's all on them! 

Life is for the living. Live free. Anything less is mere existence. 

Later Dayz,

Starr

My Friend

I feel so fucking helpless you know. 

I know you're hurting and I know even if I was there I couldn't really do anything except crawl into the darkness with you and hold you and cry with you. Or for you since you never cry. 

So I'll just do it from here and pray you'll soon see better days ahead, knowing that they are coming. I have faith.

Nothing lasts forever. 

Not the sunshine, not the rain. 

Not the good, and damn sure not the pain. Without the rain we'd never see a rainbow.

Hold fast. When you're at the end of the rope, tie a knot, and hold on.

I can't imagine the world without you in it. You are a beautiful soul and you have been a good friend when you really didn't have any reason to be.

Don't think on the many What Might Have Beens or what you perceive as Failures. Those are merely opportunities by which we learn Who and How Strong we are.

Think on the What May Yet Be. Work towards that end. There is still a lot of life to be lived; loved. 

Walk towards that Light. I'll be there where our Horizons meet.

Later days,

Starlight