Such fantastic advice by the wise and compassionate Reid Newton! I had no idea Salome and Jake were dealing with such turmoil in their personal lives! Politically divided families are this nation's unspoken epidemic. Democrats believe Republicans are evil and Republicans believe Democrats are evil. This is unfortunately, a pretty widespr…
Such fantastic advice by the wise and compassionate Reid Newton! I had no idea Salome and Jake were dealing with such turmoil in their personal lives! Politically divided families are this nation's unspoken epidemic. Democrats believe Republicans are evil and Republicans believe Democrats are evil. This is unfortunately, a pretty widespread belief in this country. It has infected millions of people and families have been torn apart. It's the first time we've seen something like this in our society since the Civil War. Many, many families in this country are currently fighting mini-civil wars with one another. But this Civil War isn't between blue and gray but rather between blue and red. Red and Blue America are literally like two different countries. My family is one of the lucky ones who hasn't been infected by this deadly disease. Things are so bad right now; I don't believe a Second Civil War is by any means a far-fetched idea. We've seen a great deal of political violence in the past few years from both the left and right. This political violence has extended to families, friend groups and neighbors. I'm so sorry Salome that your relatives treated you that way at your sister's wedding of all times and that they bad mouthed you (without knowing it) and half the country right in front of you. That is definitely not an appropriate topic to discuss at a wedding dinner! I think the two options Reid offered were both sound! Put your cards on the table or shift the topic to something less confrontational. As for the situation with Jake's family, I can't believe how cold hearted and cruel Jake's aunt was towards him! I understand she thought she was just protecting his grandmother, but it doesn't change the fact that telling him he can't visit her until he was vaccinated (which wasn't even needed since he had natural immunity) was disgusting and vile. His grandmother passed away and he didn't get to say goodbye to her. The way his uncle and cousins acted toward him for disagreeing with them was horrible and childish! I agree 100% with Reid! Jake's family need to understand that their behavior was NOT okay! His aunt owes him a sincere apology for forbidding him from seeing his dying grandmother! RIP to Jake's grandmother! May her memory be a blessing! I'm reluctant to talk about this but I think I'm ready to open up about this, I've experienced being a tough situation with friends and/or acquaintances because of politics. Nothing anywhere close to what Salome and Jake experienced, but it can be hard, nonetheless. I'm well-known to be the black sheep of the Black Sheep community. I'm a Rockefeller Republican in a community of predominately libertarians. I'll admit that at times I've felt like it was their world while I was just living in it. Another aspect of my beliefs that I feel somewhat irks the other members of the Black Sheep community is my strong support for Zionism. I fear sometimes that I'm considered to be a genocide supporter and/or denier. I hate to say this, and I don't mean this to be rude or disrespectful towards anyone, but I feel like sometimes when I bring up my opinion about Zionism, Salome and some of the other folks in the community get slightly p***ed off. Sometimes I will admit I avoid stating certain opinions about the Israeli Palestinian Conflict or some of my more liberal viewpoints like my support of affirmative action because I fear alienating the other members of the Black Sheep community or causing a massive argument. I want to be crystal clear that I meant no disrespect or offense or to insult anyone with anything I said here. Reid you are a gem of a human being; I could tell that from the first time I became acquainted with you via a video by FAIR. I also loved you're amazing interview with Jake and Salome on the Black Sheep podcast. It became immediately clear then that you are a fountain of invaluable knowledge we could all benefit from dipping our collective cup into. You've lived such a colorful and fascinating life as a professional ballet and Hip-Hop dancer, free thinker and humble warrior for the pro-human way. As to you being judged and racially attacked for being a white person in the Hip-Hop world, music and dance are the universal language and NO ONE owns a genre of music or type of dance! Also, you once mentioned that there is a grain of truth to the stereotype white people can't dance. I've been dying to tell you these historical facts I'm about to tell you. :) Do you know where that comes from? Why white people have trouble doing more free form dances? It's became since colonial times dancing was disapproved of by the Christian church. The Puritans for example deeply disapproved of dancing as representing softness and femininity. Other than the Shakers, your average person only did very rigid and disciplined dances like waltzes or minuets. Did you know that the Irish, the Italians and the Jews used to be considered the finest dancers in all the land even better than African Americans?! But their community leaders discouraged them from free form dancing as well as listening to popular music or associating with African Americans, as it would impede them from becoming and being accepted in, the United States. This is why people are so surprised when a white person can dance well in anything other than things like square dancing. I would like to take this time to recommend to Reid and everyone else in the Black Sheep community, the fascinating book A Renegade History of the United States by Professor Thaddeus Russell. Here is a link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Renegade-History-United-States/dp/1416576134 It'd make a great gift or stock stuffer for Christmas!
I agree with you that red vs. blue is the political epidemic of our time. These last 8 years have felt awful. I believe it began on Facebook during Pres. Obama's time, then took off like a brush fire when Trump was elected. I don't know about you but I think of it as a reverse-red scare from the 1950s. I love the movie Trumbo. I see so much of that feeling in America today.
Such fantastic advice by the wise and compassionate Reid Newton! I had no idea Salome and Jake were dealing with such turmoil in their personal lives! Politically divided families are this nation's unspoken epidemic. Democrats believe Republicans are evil and Republicans believe Democrats are evil. This is unfortunately, a pretty widespread belief in this country. It has infected millions of people and families have been torn apart. It's the first time we've seen something like this in our society since the Civil War. Many, many families in this country are currently fighting mini-civil wars with one another. But this Civil War isn't between blue and gray but rather between blue and red. Red and Blue America are literally like two different countries. My family is one of the lucky ones who hasn't been infected by this deadly disease. Things are so bad right now; I don't believe a Second Civil War is by any means a far-fetched idea. We've seen a great deal of political violence in the past few years from both the left and right. This political violence has extended to families, friend groups and neighbors. I'm so sorry Salome that your relatives treated you that way at your sister's wedding of all times and that they bad mouthed you (without knowing it) and half the country right in front of you. That is definitely not an appropriate topic to discuss at a wedding dinner! I think the two options Reid offered were both sound! Put your cards on the table or shift the topic to something less confrontational. As for the situation with Jake's family, I can't believe how cold hearted and cruel Jake's aunt was towards him! I understand she thought she was just protecting his grandmother, but it doesn't change the fact that telling him he can't visit her until he was vaccinated (which wasn't even needed since he had natural immunity) was disgusting and vile. His grandmother passed away and he didn't get to say goodbye to her. The way his uncle and cousins acted toward him for disagreeing with them was horrible and childish! I agree 100% with Reid! Jake's family need to understand that their behavior was NOT okay! His aunt owes him a sincere apology for forbidding him from seeing his dying grandmother! RIP to Jake's grandmother! May her memory be a blessing! I'm reluctant to talk about this but I think I'm ready to open up about this, I've experienced being a tough situation with friends and/or acquaintances because of politics. Nothing anywhere close to what Salome and Jake experienced, but it can be hard, nonetheless. I'm well-known to be the black sheep of the Black Sheep community. I'm a Rockefeller Republican in a community of predominately libertarians. I'll admit that at times I've felt like it was their world while I was just living in it. Another aspect of my beliefs that I feel somewhat irks the other members of the Black Sheep community is my strong support for Zionism. I fear sometimes that I'm considered to be a genocide supporter and/or denier. I hate to say this, and I don't mean this to be rude or disrespectful towards anyone, but I feel like sometimes when I bring up my opinion about Zionism, Salome and some of the other folks in the community get slightly p***ed off. Sometimes I will admit I avoid stating certain opinions about the Israeli Palestinian Conflict or some of my more liberal viewpoints like my support of affirmative action because I fear alienating the other members of the Black Sheep community or causing a massive argument. I want to be crystal clear that I meant no disrespect or offense or to insult anyone with anything I said here. Reid you are a gem of a human being; I could tell that from the first time I became acquainted with you via a video by FAIR. I also loved you're amazing interview with Jake and Salome on the Black Sheep podcast. It became immediately clear then that you are a fountain of invaluable knowledge we could all benefit from dipping our collective cup into. You've lived such a colorful and fascinating life as a professional ballet and Hip-Hop dancer, free thinker and humble warrior for the pro-human way. As to you being judged and racially attacked for being a white person in the Hip-Hop world, music and dance are the universal language and NO ONE owns a genre of music or type of dance! Also, you once mentioned that there is a grain of truth to the stereotype white people can't dance. I've been dying to tell you these historical facts I'm about to tell you. :) Do you know where that comes from? Why white people have trouble doing more free form dances? It's became since colonial times dancing was disapproved of by the Christian church. The Puritans for example deeply disapproved of dancing as representing softness and femininity. Other than the Shakers, your average person only did very rigid and disciplined dances like waltzes or minuets. Did you know that the Irish, the Italians and the Jews used to be considered the finest dancers in all the land even better than African Americans?! But their community leaders discouraged them from free form dancing as well as listening to popular music or associating with African Americans, as it would impede them from becoming and being accepted in, the United States. This is why people are so surprised when a white person can dance well in anything other than things like square dancing. I would like to take this time to recommend to Reid and everyone else in the Black Sheep community, the fascinating book A Renegade History of the United States by Professor Thaddeus Russell. Here is a link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Renegade-History-United-States/dp/1416576134 It'd make a great gift or stock stuffer for Christmas!
I agree with you that red vs. blue is the political epidemic of our time. These last 8 years have felt awful. I believe it began on Facebook during Pres. Obama's time, then took off like a brush fire when Trump was elected. I don't know about you but I think of it as a reverse-red scare from the 1950s. I love the movie Trumbo. I see so much of that feeling in America today.