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The End Is Near or HiHo HiHo It's Off To Work I Go

5/31/2020 11:45 PM

Yep. Back to work this week. Not sure what day exactly yet but I'm guessing Tuesday or Wednesday. I'm ready to get out of this madness. So grateful I have my job. Going to wait a week or two before I start bugging about a transfer. Every day here just gets more uncomfortable.

I live with a closet racist. Who in the last few days has exposed herself as such. I consider myself a democratic socialist. I have very liberal views. And I believed that William and Ellen were mostly on the same page. William is, funny enough. He and I think alot alike in our feelings about what is happening with the protests. I don't even know where to start with Ellen's comments and just overall weirdness.

Thursday morning William walked to the mailbox to get the mail just to find it had been broken into and was no longer a useable mailbox. He asked me to go to the post office to report it. I obliged. While waiting in line to report it a woman came in and was upset about a piece of missing mail and was rather loud about it. When I got home Ellen asked how the post office trip went and I told her good and about the woman upset about her mail. Her response was "she was black wasn't she?". It caught me off guard. I didn't want to answer. I personally had not even taken that into account when relaying the story. Yes. She was. But it could of been anyone of any race which I pointed out. She replied "but it wasn't."

Unless you live under a rock you know about the protests and riots. They have been happening here too. Out of Ellen's mouth have been statements like: they complain about being oppressed and then act like this. And, alway destroying their own neighborhood. And, I'm sick and tired of all the cop bashing. There are good cops and bad cops. Uh, no shit. Just like there are good and bad white folk, good and bad asian folk, good and bad black folk and so on. Lets get real. But last night was the kicker.

She had been at her daughters house with her family all day. William won't go over there due to the daughters husband hanging a Trump 2020 flag on his house. This has been an ongoing drama for weeks now. I agree totally with William. I wouldn't go over there either. Ellen says he should buck up and just go over there. Don't look at it, she says. William and I are sitting out back last night chilling and burning a few. A helicopter had been going in circles for quite awhile around and over our house but when you live in the ghetto, that's pretty much a regular feature. So neither of us had thought twice about it. Ellen gets home and storms through the door out back and says: "do you know what's going on?". We look at each other and say no. I'm sure we both looked like we knew what was coming next. She despises stoners yet she married one. Apparently the main road by our house had been blocked off for a ways. She had to take a detour home. Then the tears and rant started.

"I'm white and I'm afraid to leave my house!" "I shouldn't have to be scared in my own home and I am." "A black lady pulled up next to me at a stop light and just stared at me. I was so scared." "Those people are destroying everything." There was more.

At one point I chuckled because it was nuts. She was nuts. I was yelled at "this isN'T FUNNY." Yes, I meant to write it that way. Say it with a growl and get louder. The chuckling stopped but I let her know she was nuts. Then this .... "what, you're not afraid of black people?" I said no, I'm not. I'm sure the media would want me to be but I refuse to fall into their trap. You on the other hand live, breathe and eat this shit up. Be afraid. I chose not to. This pissed her off. She went to bed crying.

This morning it was all about securing the house. Again, she is a dog with a bone when she get a thought going. The riots and protesting didn't come close to us. There is absolutely nothing in this neighborhood for anyone to vandalize really. Yeah, we had a random tweeker steal our hose nozzel and use it for a phone. But that was about it. For the most part the garage is being kept shut because my bike is in there along with their camping gear. And we have a 80 pound dog with one hell of a loud deep ear penetrating bark. She got her window dowels and sliding glass door dowl. It shut her up.

My thoughts quickly on all of this. I stand with the protesters. Always will. I don't believe those doing the vandalizing and destruction are the protesters. I believe they are plants and people taking advantage of a situation to do shitty shit things. All fingers get pointed at the protesters. It's not them. They want peace and are anti-violence. Don't believe mainstream media. Turn the fucking t.v. off. And, please most of all remember why this is happening. Please.

Stay safe out there.

PEACE.

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