Well, that was a little lost on me, too rough around the edges maybe and no heroism...I liked the good guy in the end stuff, I'm a sucker for it.
The first had a warnng about the dangers of racicism, of putting everyone in th one bad basket, owing to the simple colur of their skiin think Gail. The second, I think the dangers of drug addiction, the lived possibility of simply living to feed your habit. so the guy is walking up the strret to make a deal....all other human poossibilities in the form of human relationships are closed to him... he must feed his habit. Its OK I took a little while to get the second one myself, until I heard about the recovering drug history of the :wink: group itself....
Good videos...good lessons. Comment on the first one, the guy in the video wearing a dark hood so you couldn't really see his face is threatening, no matter what color you are. I didn't like that part of the story, as it appeared that he was trying to look threatening. Proof of this was that the hood came off when he was being the hero. Maybe a second lesson in this video was not to "feed" the stigma that people put on you by dressing the part? Comment on the second one - I agree Padraig, I think it just shows even in general though, how people don't care about anyone or anything but their own agendas, whether it be a drug deal, or something else, or just going to meet his buddies was more important than everyone else in the world. Such a sad way to live, but sometimes we all can put blinders on, so a reminder like this now and then may be needed. Disturbing, but good video.
Lee, I'm happy that you didn't get it! You didn't get it because YOU are SO NOT in that kind of a place right now. That kind of attitude is foreign to you...and that is a good thing!
I think we must all take responsibility for our actions, including the way we dress. I always feel a bit nervous when I see young folks with hoodies up especially if the wether is good and there is no real discomfort to explain it. Originally, I don't know if you know it, but monks used to wear hoods to sign to folks they were praying and were hoping to be undisturbed, a kind of closing of of the world: I think maybe they overdid it in the video by having the hood up in order to underline their point a little to much. But..I have often thought how hard it must be to be black. A young black African served me in a fast food chain on Saturday and I tried to be especially nice to him as I sensed he maybe hasn't always been finding it easy in this city.
Fats Waller, an American composer of the 40's wrote a song called "I'M SO BLACK AND BLUE"( in Ain't Misbehavin') and it epitomized that idea of how toilsome it is to be black. When my husband heard the song in the show in San Francisco he "got it" so intensely that he stood up and said loudly "oh sh*t" before he could catch himself. He had never understood the hardships, challenges, misfortunes and adversities that came with a skin color. When I was little(3-4yrs) I would always run to the black women I saw ( I was born in the south) because I knew that they were a sanctuary of love for me. Now when I'm in a threatening arrangement I ask that BIG angels come and walk with me. It's worked so far.
Those who are last on Earth will be first in heaven. I always thought if I was black that that would be a big consolation. Matthew 19:30 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first. Many stories attest to Martín's exceptional piety. He was said sometimes to be surrounded by a bright light when he prayed, and to be levitated off the floor of a chapel by sheer religious ecstasy. He subsisted for days on bread and water and would do penance for sins by whipping himself with chains. Martín was said to be capable of bilocation (being in two places at once), and individuals from both Africa and Mexico swore that they had encountered him in their home villages even though he was never known to have left Lima. Patients under his care spoke on several occasions of his having walked through locked doors in order to render medical help. Other tales of the miracles and wonders worked by Martín, however, were more specific to his time and place. He was said to have a supernatural rapport with the natural world. The most famous single story connected with Martín had to do with a group of mice (or rats) that infested the monastery's collection of fine linen robes. Martín resisted the plans of the other monks to lay poison out for the mice. One day he caught a mouse and said (in the rendering of Angela M. Orsini of San Francisco's Martín de Porres House of Hospitality, one of many institutions and schools in the United States named after the Peruvian healer), "Little brothers, why are you and your companions doing so much harm to the things belonging to the sick? Look; I shall not kill you, but you are to assemble all your friends and lead them to the far end of the garden. Everyday I will bring you food if you leave the wardrobe alone"—whereupon Martín lead a Pied Piper-like mouse parade toward a small new den. Both the mice and Martín kept their word, and the closet infestation was solved for good. Martín loved animals of all kinds and seemed to have unusual skills in communicating with them. He would apply his medical skills to the treatment of a wounded dog found wandering the streets with the same energy he would devote to a sick human. Paintings of Martín often depicted him with a mouse, dog, or cat—or sometimes with a broom, symbolizing his devotion to everyday tasks. Read more: Martín Porres Biography - life, childhood, name, story, school, mother, young, son, old, born, house, time, sister, Born to Freed Panamanian-Born Slave http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Porres-Mart-n.html#ixzz1QOocqWLR
