“If you’re dealt a bad hand, you still have to play it.”
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The reality of life.
Life is not fair.
It's time we began to address the underlying causes of Leftist-driven cultural dysfunction, especially in the black culture which fosters self-loathing, self-pity, and almost militant entitlement.
“His favorite quote was ‘Old Man Can’t is dead. I helped bury him,’” Thomas said.
The version I heard as a child was, “Can’t died in the corn field, and Couldn’t and Wouldn’t are lost out there”
Now children take thinks literally which is good, but I remember thinking: “There’s a dead guy out in the corn field! And two other guys that don’t sound so nice. I PLAY IN THAT CORN FIELD.”
He’s correct.
As for me; it’s become real easy to ignore the so called pain and suffering of these victims. But there’s a downside to that. I try real hard not to laugh and feel Schadenfreude at their injuries. And those real victims? Those who really are unjustly treated?
They get drowned out by the liberal left at every turn.
I noticed years ago that people have a tendency to want to establish their “bona fides” as a person, by first establishing their victimhood as if that makes their opinion more important or meaningful.
Its almost like a reflex action that many many people fall into.
I try to avoid it, myself. I prefer a reflex stance of gratitude. Or, failing that, the old cowboy virtue of shaking it off. “Just wrap it in an ace bandage and some baling wire, I’m fine”.
OK, I would never make a cowboy, but that’s what I admire. Not the reflexive victimhood that is almost, almost, universal these days.
Love this guy!!!!!
Thomas and his wife Ginny are a class act.