The Complexity of Racism and How Some People Believe Southern Pride Can be Compared as a Religion

(12/06/2015) Tampa, Fl --- Lately around social media this macro image from the group I Support the Police, Not the Criminals had been circulating around the different walls of Facebook as well Twitter; being re-shared almost 250,000 times.

The problem doesn't go on the number of times the images had been re-shared but on the amount of comments which rounds 4K as well with the number of "likes" as a quantitative method that the image has been approved with rounds on 66,000 times.

Within the macro-image there is a clear message of hate and ignorance, there are several sub-messages that we are going to analyze but overall there is ignorance of the people towards constitutional rights as well how they misidentify an appropriation of an regional identity that has the roots on the Confederacy over the denial of a basic right which the freedom of religion.

A part of this image that is found incredible disturbing is on how many people see Dylan Roof as a martyr, when he as the Confederacy soldiers are just mere assassins but also the generalization over here is that there is a protest to remove an outdated symbol of hate because the correlation of San Bernadino shooting was in the hand of two Islamist means that is OK to deny the rights of a group of people and deny to everyone else the right to emigrate.

• It is not fair to deny anyone their own right to profess their faith, It will be unconstitutional to deny someone their first amendment.
• We are a laic society, we weren't formed by Christian principles.
• There is no national faith and enforcing or even trying to promote Talon's Law on the society is wrong as we are a democratic republic.
• Juxtaposing Southern Nationalism as if it was part of the constitution shows how quite ignorant you can be towards equality.
• Thinking and expressing that one religion is not a religion because it doesn't share your set of values, shows how equivocate you are towards how the diversity in culture functions.
• Calling a religion and cultural group by derogatory terms is a hate crime.
• Blocking the immigration with reforms and denying the entrance of people based on the solely idea that it will stop terrorism is wrong. There will be acts of terror as long as there is humanity and no matter what happen terrorism threats will show up one way or the other.
• If we are going to deny any expression of faiths that aren't Christian related, is perfectly fine to deny and banish Christianity as some people pretend to ban Islam. We can ban any public display of religion as whole and become a laic republic.
• Saying that Fair is Fair, is wrong; it shows how much resentment and hatred is overflowing in the country but also just by reading comments on how some individuals have no clue how their words will affect other people, show how far ignorant we are when we post any bullshit on social media.

The complexity is rather simple, people are ignorant and extremely prideful up to the point they can be blinded by a form of nationalism that can hurt other individuals who are trying to do good for their community. These people don't understand that arming the citizens is not the answer; violence and the channels that it is presented will take many forms. The issue itself is not about guns but how to deal and find a solution with the intolerance that we are living on a daily basis.

On another side, saying that why it is bad to express publicly about white pride and why is a crime to do it? Makes me wonder if these kind of people know about the atrocities that the Klan and other militant Christian groups that are national to the United States do? Probably they don't even know. 

Obama and The Bullshit of Gas Prices

Billboard above Hillsborough Avenue across Hard Rock
Hotel - Tampa Bay, Fl.

Tampa, Fl -- It's time to talk clear about gas prices as they are since 2008 and up today, the first thing you need to remember in 2008 gas prices where more than 4.00 p/g (I will never forget that because I move to the States on 2008 and I lived in Tampa and Miami.), the second thing you need to know it is to not buy all the bull-crap exposed by the SuperPacs as they will try to play with the true and all the information from the last 20 years it is encoded in the Consumers Report website and the website shows a total opposite from Obama's first day in office away from the lie that it is exposed in this billboard that I took on a photography early on the morning of 10/12/12 on Hillsborough Avenue across the street of the Hard Rock Hotel in Tampa; but, the third and last piece of information you need to know it is that probably much of the people who had drive around these sponsored billboards from Tea Party financed groups probably by now had swallowed the information as an ultimate truth because much of these people show the classical stereotype many Americans will hate to fit in as stereotype that will classify them as a group of slobs who don't read, who don't inform themselves, who only believe in what they see and only accept one truth as the ultimate truth and see everything that is not white, Protestant, conservator and what happens outside America as not their problem, as what people outside the States call the gringos.

Let's talk clear, gas prices are a focal point on this campaign but at the end even of who is elected president won't have the last word as the power of checks and balances is always present, and the House and Senate are the two power groups but if any of those groups are in tune with the elected president then that would be a major issue because there won't be a way of balance the powers and it will be the moment where the democracy will become an oligarchy which today with all the lobbyist we are one step ahead of dangling in some Communist elements as the real power is in the hands of a few corporations and not the people. The cost of gas in June 2008 was US$4.10 per gallon and the maximum average pear on the gas recession of 2008 was on US$4.11. By August the prices to US$3.47 and subsequently on an average of US$2.07. 

The price of the gas fluctuated and there comes the half truth of the billboard while it went on an average of $1.84 per gallon now here comes the tricky part where everything went on fluke and showed the dependency of Americans into fuel and not alternatives that wouldn't create a negative impact on the ecosystem. The first case comes with the Keystone XL pipeline which showed the vulnerability and negative impact of the fuels industry on the economy. The Keystone XL pipeline had a tram point that was especulated to pass by the Ogalla Aquifer in Nebraska which supplies the Midwest for drinking water and water for farming, the aquifer is a shallow body of water and vulnerable to any external abuse but the Republican Governor of Nebraska Dave Heineman worked to change the route of the pipeline. As of 2012 there are still major concern regarding the developing of the pipeline and even in a Red State as Texas there had been last minute from part environmentalist to stop the construction, albeit the regional government gave green light to project.

The pipeline so far had an estimated by the U.S. State Department that would create around 5,000 jobs; with an estimate of 1,400 temporal construction jobs made by a study of the Cornell University Global Labor Institute.  The second inconvenience happened with the BP oil spill which still fresh in the memory of people.

Yet the Obama administration is not innocent regarding oil exploration as what happened in 2010 following some old policies by the Bush administration the drilling had gone to some parts of Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mid-Atlantic and the policies will run up to the middle of 2013 and in a funny note the Super Pac who promoted the billboard that we showed at the beginning of the entry is playing with the hatred of some segments of the American population towards the Middle East and Islamophobia to incite emotions in potential voters that Mitt is the solution while the solution to lower the prices it is on the people inciting in a referendum that the Congress and the House will finally examine the privileges they are giving to companies such as BP, Exxon, Texaco and others as manipulating a segment of the economy that shouldn't go high for sur-factors but rather keep and stable price even in the worst crisis to keep the economy afloat. So I hope the middle American don't show the ignorance and get informed before believing anything because right now we the people are selling the country to a few individuals and corporations who are using it for their own benefits.

Gallery:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57401650/face-the-facts-a-fact-check-on-gas-prices/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/us/protesters-gather-at-keystone-xl-site-in-texas.html?_r=0