In the movie Pretty Woman starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, the character Richard plays offers Julia’s character her own apartment, credit cards to all the finest stores in Beverly Hills, and a monthly allowance. Why? To get her off the streets. She turns down the offer saying, “It’s only geography.”
It’s true. She had feelings for Richard’s character and vice versa so getting her off the streets won’t change a thing.
This is exactly what’s going on in the United States today. People can keep rioting, burning buildings, killing policemen as well as innocent bystanders, destroy and loot stores, and blame ALL police officers to justify their actions.
When the rioting, burning, killing, and looting stops, we’re all going to be exactly where we were when it started…only with fewer stores, businesses, and police officers in those neighborhoods. All that aggressive action did nothing but fill up the morning and evening news reports.
It did not improve your neighborhood, police officers feeling like they had targets on their backs quit the force or retired, more tax payer money was required to clean up after these riots, and a lot more fear is spreading in what was once the greatest country on earth.
History NEVER has to repeat itself if we learn something from it. Destroying and purposely removing historical landmarks is NOT going to change history. Those are our reminders of what happened, what probably shouldn’t have happened, and what can we learn from this so we can move forward.
Before you know it, the American flag is going to ‘bother’ someone and it will have to be removed from every public building and home in America. Every little thing that bothers ONE person forces the rest of the citizens of this country to conform to one persons whining.
Schools with mascots bearing Indian names are having to change those names. Land ‘O Lakes butter had to remove the image of an Indian from their packaging. How about the bars on the animal cage on a small box of animal crackers had to be removed because those bars offended some animal-loving group. There are no more winners and losers in childhood sports. Everyone gets a trophy called a participation trophy. We’re raising a bunch if sissies who don’t know how to win or lose gracefully. The list is endless.
We all are entitled to, and allowed to have and express our opinions, but when millions of other Americans are affected by it, it becomes harmful and hateful.
Every person buried in every cemetery in this country is our history. Some were more famous than others. Most were good, hard-working people who wanted nothing more than a better life for themselves. Cemeteries are sacred and protected. Be rest assured, someone is going to be offended by tombstones and those will all have to be removed.
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE? Get up in the morning, fix your bed, be kind to your neighbors, help those who need it, go to work, pay your bills, have a beer, and enjoy this very short life God has given you. Twenty years from now, 2020 will be nothing but a bad hiccup in our lives.
I’d like to think that each generation wants to make this country a little better than they found it. We’re not going to achieve the greatness America once had by hatred, looting, burning, shooting, and destroying the very history this country was founded on.
Grow the fuck up and smell the roses. And for God’s sake LAUGH!
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