A couple days ago my wife and I were joking around and I thought of how my Mom taught me to NEVER lay hands on a woman no matter what.You should know I was really young when told this but it has always stuck with me. I only bring this up because that while I was praying recently I was reminded of how blessed I was with really strong women in my life. I have 5 Aunts and 1 Uncle by birth. They introduced unto me friends too that were strong. Of course Bertha Lee the matriarch whom I miss dearly. I know she watches me and at times is dismayed at my actions. I also cannot forget my cousins, some who I must admit for the past many years I have not had the privilege of being around. This is for me a great sacrifice, but again I am liking myself unto a Moses figure attempting to gain strength so that when I return I do so with power and authority. With wisdom and with a way to completely alter the future.
It is amazing and a little funny when I think of Brigham Young standing on Ensign Peak shortly after entering the territory now known as Utah and stating, "Attention, the whole world..." or something along those lines. Very few people heard him physically but what he said afterwards surely came true. He commanded them to help build up this place. To send resources, man and brain power to establish the foundation. They came and did so. This is what I am doing here saying they same thing, Attention the whole world! Yeah its audacious and to some may seem like a power trip. But many of you know me personally and you know I don't seek power. I am a little like father Lehi and admitting I am a "visionary man" and gladly accept this title. But look at what he did, he willfully left his riches and took his family to a greater land of promise. He left us a legacy and that legacy explained what we could expect in our times.
My motives are not political in nature though they may sound that way, but that they are humanitarian and spiritual. I have had placed in my mind by my mother and my God that things have to change. My focus is on the people of my race because that this is my experience. I do realize that there are wrongs that must be addresses among all people thus the reason I asked for help. It was made more evident to me by a sister of mine that she relates because her upbringing was similar but slightly different due to her skin color and surroundings. She too has a message that must be heard and a future that must be altered. My brothers and sisters we can take control of our destiny. What will the future say of us? "They saw the wrongs but no one acted to change." I refuse! I am lighting the fuse on a revolution that will alter all that we believe we can accomplish. Its bold.
The reason for my actions came to a head as of Sunday April 27, 2014. Along with the dream from a few days ago. I saw Jesus and he said that "what we are doing here today will affect everyone and everything..." He said many other things which I may address later. That along with hearing what Gordon B. Hinckley said shortly after my birth in Oct 1978 and the many others who have said that there is something special that I needed to do has set me on fire.
I have a co-worker that I was speaking with today about this and she mentioned that peopled don't like to rock the boat even though they believe the same. I know this to be true, but someone has to rock the boat before we utterly sink. I know there is a silent majority who would like for someone to say something to get the conversation started so that we can enact real change and real progress. Again our children deserve for us to leave them a better word if there be one at all to leave them. At our pace we will destroy everything.
It was recently made aware to me that the United States has been at war for 7 decades. I'm not sure why I never realized it. We entered WW2 in 1941, when that war ended the Cold War began forcing us to stockpile nuclear weapons, two nations holding the entire planet hostage. In the midst of the cold war we fought the spread of communism in Vietnam and we had a hot war in Korea. We had all types of secret proxy wars in the southern hemisphere of the Americas. When the Berlin wall finally fell we found another enemy in the middle east and fought a war there. The turn of the century we began a war that will never end, the "War on Terror", which lets face it cannot be won on a battlefield. This must be fought in hearts and minds. We have been at war for 70 plus years! Does that not make you sick? I bet it will shock our children. I see the future generations as more tolerant and smarter with life then we are. You can already tell this will be the case because that they don't understand their racist grandparents. They don't get hate because of skin complexion it perplexes most teens in our time. Imagine what they pass on to their kids.
All the spent lives and treasure for a no better future. I understand what we fought for in WW2 there was a real threat there that had to be confronted but the others? Who knows what great men we sent to early graves and what of the resources we spent? What could we have built in those factories? What of the treasure? Could we not have really focused on eradicating poverty and hate in our own country? We are a powerful nation amongst weaker states do we really face imminent threat from Europe or Asia? We are under no threat of invasion from any of them. Why do we have a pact to go to WW3 for a country like Latvia? No disrespect to the Latvians but may of us have no idea where it is. If it wasn't for Seinfeld I wouldn't know it existed. I say bring our people home and lets start fixing our own problems. We know the politicians and the military industrial complex is not willing to stand down. I say if they want us to go to war they ought to do as the Romans did their politicians were the generals in the heat of the battles, they must go to!
We spend over $600,000,000,000.00 yearly in just defense not including healthcare and pensions for our troops. Just Defense! While we have men and women who gave everything in past wars walk our streets in any major city homeless, or begging for food on street corners. You've seen them, the majority of them are veterans a residual cost of war. What could we do if we just cut that back a little? Give us the people $100,000,000,000 and let s show you what we could do with that. Could we not end poverty?
Here's my idea: you could have people submit proposals for businesses and if the proposal looks viable and workable you give them a 1-2 million dollar endowment. They can never touch the money only the interest. They have two years to get the idea up and running using the interest. If they fail they fail but if it prospers you have just created another middle to upper class citizen who feels self worth. You never loose your initial investment so there's no risk, only upside. You do this for everyone who has a dream and an idea and watch them create jobs and wealth for us all. We could build better schools with that money. We can repair failing bridges and dams and advance culture with that money.
I rest my case.... For now.
