We live in amazing times. Many years ago, on a country road excursion with my mother, she made the comment about what her father would think of the farm equipment of today. Her father had died in the 1940's and farmed with real horse power. The same could be said now, about my mother. I wonder what she would say about how the technology has changed and she has only been gone 11 years.
We live in an age of instant gratification, instant messaging, instant access. We live on social media sights and unfortunately, believe most of what we see on them.
As much as I rant about how the main stream media is owned by just a handful of individuals, with an agenda, I let myself fall into their latest trap.
The story starts in Washington D.C. A group of students are on a class trip. As they finish up their sight seeing activities and are waiting on their bus, something happens. What I watched, on social media, was a video and the following explanation: The students had surrounded a Native American Indian, also a veteran, who was protesting (not sure what about) and beating a ceremonial drum, along with singing the song of his people. One young man faces off with this gentleman. The teenager is wearing a MAGA hat, I doubt there needs to be an explanation of what that means, along with most of his fellow students. The teenager never says a word, but smiles smugly into the elder man's face. Then the rest of the students begin to chant, "Build The Wall" and taunt the poor Native American man.
This particular video has since gone viral. When I watched it, I was sickened by the actions of this young person with his smug face. The article that surrounded this video even noted that this boy's mother had already made an excuse for his behavior, blaming it on another group. That made me even madder, always placing the blame on someone else....no wonder he acts that way!
Then, while searching through the places where I go to find some real truth in the happenings of the world, I came across another video. This was the video of the entire encounter between this smug, white privileged, rich boy and the poor Native American elder. It shows a group who had already been taunting the students, calling them names and racial slurs. The students asked their chaperone if they could chant some of their school spirit cheers and were given the go-ahead. Then it shows the Native American, beating his drum, walking directly into the group of students. Some of the students are even dancing to the beat of his drum. This elder continues into the group until he is right in the face of the young teenager. Yeah, the one with the smug look on his face. The Native American man continues beating his drum and is so close, that the drumstick nearly hits the boy in the face. Then, the gentle drum beating elder tells the boy he needs to go back to Europe.
When I watched this, I was equally sickened because I had not followed the beating of my own drum and looked first for the truth. Since the airing of the first video, this young man and his family have been blasted all over the main stream media as racists. One person even said that all MAGA hats should be banned since they seemed to be causing brain damage. The boy and his family have received death threats from people all over the country. I am now trying to right my own wrong by sharing the truth of the matter with as many as will take the time to read and listen.
This is what we have become? A nation of people who no longer look for the truth? Who follow blindly, without even thinking to question what they are being spoon fed? It is time to pull our heads out of the sand. There is a propaganda campaign going on that if we fall victim to it, will change everything and it will not change for the better. YouTube and Facebook censor their material and makes sure it follows THEIR guidelines. Yet, this video, the misleading one, is still on Facebook. Why is that? If the time is taken to actually look deeper into what is shown on the evening news, the difference is shocking. A huge percentage of what is being shown is the exact opposite of the truth.
Only the truth will set us free.
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