“In daily life we assume things.  But, if we would on closer scrutiny, TAKE DOWN OUR VIRTUAL WALLs we may find our assumptions to be full of contradictions.   If we endeavor to search for truth and certainty, it is only natural that we start using our life experiences, the prisms from which we have no doubt developed our mindsets over time.  In one’s infinite wisdom, there is no way possible, without personal contact,  one can tell another’s life experiences; therefore prejudgments come into play.  Acceptance or not by whites, racism is an underlying factor in everyday life for many African-Americans.  Judgments are natural, but when these judgments are put into play brings forth challenges and at worst, demeaning consequences. 

White House press secretary to a reporter:  “I’am sorry that discuss you,” “You’re shaking your head,”  “At some point you’ve got to take no for an answer.”  It is not necessarily what you say, but the demenor in which you say it.  Recalling a similar exchange by the president with the same reporter.

“The Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution aside, the human rights of my ancestors and most other Black families’ ancestors were ripped away and violated in a virulent form of moral and political hypocrisy. The result was that racism became part of America’s national heritage that we refused to even teach about in school.” “The Presidency In Black and White,” by April Ryan.

Philosophically speaking, if I were seated in a public library, sitting in a chair, at a table of a particular shape, on which I see sheets of paper with writing or print. By turning my head, I see out of the window buildings, the sky with clouds and the sun. I believe that the sun is about ninety-three million miles from the earth; that it is a hot globe many times bigger than the earth; that God slung it there. It rises every morning and will continue to do so for an indefinite time in the future. I believe that, if any other reasonable person came into the library, they would see the same chairs and tables and books and papers as I see. When they would look out the window, they would see buildings, clouds, and the sun. Their belief as to how the Sun came into existence may differ, but the Sun will always be a certain entity in its existence.  However, as an African-American sitting in a public library and a white American comes upon me…….. The possibility of two worlds colliding may well be inevitable.  One life built on stereotypes taught and the other residing consistently in the subconscious in the reality of a racially divided nation.  The learned enigma in superiority within the personality of the one individual can never be completely camouflaged and will always ignite the natural intuitive instincts of the “lived” indignities of the soul in the other.

Human-made attitudes, displaying itself “Against the Odds” within the “Entity of the Mind.”   The Mind, just like the “Sun” an infinite creation, not measurable by any mortal.   Mindsets, definitively and defensively postured, dwelling just below the surface. Waiting like a fox in the night, spontaneously erupting, reinforcing the memory of the elephant in the room; emitting disparagement to any possibility of Spiritual Partnering.  “Spiritual Partnering:  the freedom  given by the Soul to the personality to demonstrate the love of God.”

        Henry Lee Faulkner 

                 “Guidance Against The Odds” ©2016