Black People : You Cannot Change nor Define your enemy.

I see that we as a people have been forced to change who we are. We have been forced to think and behave as our enemies, in order to survive.



Though true, I find it very scary to think that we have lost so much of who we really are!
 
You are correct in that your perception can mislead you into thinking that something or someone is or is not the enemy or an obstacle. Just because you preceive them as the enemy or an obstacle does not make it so. Likewise, just because you do not perceive them as the enemy or an obstacle also does not make it so.

In short, it is what it is...mistakes and all.

In the words of the rapper, common, "for every left make two rights",
for the best we can do is all we can do.

Therefore, we can identify what we think or percieve to be the enemy or obstacle but at the end of the day, our actions, tactics, responses will be the determining factor of rather we obtain our goals or accomplish our objectives. If we misidentify potential allies as enemies or tools as obstacles, we will miss opportunities or make our success much more difficult to obtain. On the other hand, if we do the opposite, we will get the opposite result.

Error, is an unavoidable aspect of the human experience,
just as ones perception.
Remember, your retort regarding "utopia"...

My point was from the assumption that you have correctly identified the enemy or obstacle as such, your success or failure will not be based upon your ability to change or redefine the nature of that enemy or obstacle, but upon you ability to change or redefine your actions, tactics, and responses to that enemy or obstacle.
I may be wrong, but the above reads like a non sequitur...or an oxymoron.

However, the common denominator...the constant...is change.

In any event, I pose an analogy in regard to the above:

An enemy attacks you, and you fight them off...beat them
down even, they will, assuming they are sane, at least think twice
about messing with you again, or change up their approach, if not, outright leave
you alone for some time to come or kill them dead. Your 'success', their 'failure', ultimately
changed that enemy and obstacle it presented to you.

Full Speed, as you know by now, we don't live in a vacuum.
Everything affects everything. Everybody affects everybody.
Even your coughing affects the atmosphere, in some way, that I live in,
and will for a long time to come.
 
No

I may be wrong, but the above reads like a non sequitur...or an oxymoron.

You're not wrong. God bless Fullspeed he means well but most of what is says is an oxymoron, yet he can never see it.



Even your coughing affects the atmosphere, in some way

If one opens their mind they will realize this is not a stretch and we're not even speaking airborne viruses.

Full Speed, as you know by now, we don't live in a vacuum.

I tell him this all the time. I make reference to him driving miss daisy not as a disrespect but as a point of reference. He's only viewing things based on the "word". The brother means well but it seems he's forgotten how we've arrived at this point and time. Because if we we NOT here what would be the need for this thread.

So apparently he (and I) feels something needs fixing/adjusting. I want to change the WHOLE platform under the way we exist as people, and he would like to change the paint on the wall.

Changing the paint is not a bad thing, but it is when the wall needs to be rebuilt.
 
I must say, I have some additional thoughts as to the 'simplicity' of this as well as my earlier comments in this thread.

While on the surface, this appears quite logical yet, under the surface I think this goes very deep.

One thing I know for myself is that I am no longer willing to "change" who I am nor my tactics or standards for living.

I see that we has a people have been forced to change who we are. We have been forced to think and behave as our enemies, in order to survive. Survival is the name of the game and like I've stated in a previous thread, my life is not a "game". I am ready to LIVE and not simply "survive".



To me, the bottom line is about results. What do we need to be happy, fulfilled, and to obtain our personal versions of success in the face of who or what we identify as the enemy or obstacles. If we do not have what we want out of life, what do we need to do to get it? At the very least, it will require a change in our actions. As the old saying goes, "If you keep doing what you have been doing, you will keep getting what you have been getting." If one is happy with what they have and where they are in life, keep doing what you been doing. On the other hand, if one is not happy with what they have or where they are in life, they have one of two choices: SETTLE for what they have or is given to them or they have to change their actions, tactics, and responses to get a result different from what they have been getting.
 
Changing the paint is not a bad thing, but it is when the wall needs to be rebuilt.

I have no desire to change the paint nor rebuild the wall. You don't understand me at all. My actions, tactics, and response is about tearing down walls altogether and allowing my walls to be established by my desire as opposed to what someone else had constructed. (inside or outside the community) That's self-determination. That's LIVING.
 

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