Reparational Repair? Ableism. Ageism. Autism. Racism and the deep change required from within US.

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Adventure Christian Kids

There certainly is“enough” to go around.


Enough hate.

Enough love.

Enough blank stared, wrinkled skin, catatonia, color coded codes of potential implementation to “take care of it”, to “take care of you”.


Suddenly we find our collective selves attempting to out do one another with the trash talk of all trash.


Trash talking.


An insidious way to “get into our heads” to force us to believe we are less than or un equal to.


Reparations do not repair this. Reparations do not repair this type of behavior. Hand outs do not either.


A deep dive into one’s own soul is the only remedy.


Please forgive us adults kids. Sometimes we digress. Fail. “Oops, I did it again”, “My bad”. Sadly, when it becomes a habitual pattern of stealing in the interest of color coded, catatonia, oldish, allowance, something or someone has to give.


And it should not be at the expense of you and your futures.


I think I actually heard an adult trash talk (another word for make fun of, criticize, be mean to another person) for looking bad.


Once again kids, compelled to apologize to the kids in the room. For the behavior of the adults in the room. The adults, many adults in many rooms have lost their noodles, minds, and manners. I think I also saw and adult “flip the bird” at another adult because of a disagreement.😳


Again. My apologies kids. The adults are “losing it”.


Do not listen to those adults.

They are mean.

They forgot their manners.

They really oughta go and sit in the corner and think about what they have done.


But you see, they will not. They will continue to trash talk about what they cannot handle because they feel their “world” slipping away and would like to ensure you and your futures go down with it. In their minds,they will not be “here” to see the train wreck they ran right into your lives. So they really do not care.


Get the deal done at all costs to you.


Good news.

There are persons who care about you that you do not even know! Who say, on your behalf:

Nope.

Not on my watch.


So. We thank you immensely for your continued “kid patience” while the adults trash talk one another, flip the bird and bail out because their personal lies overwhelmed their sense of duty to


You.


This kind of stuff really gets my undies in a bungee. For you.


No, I am not riding the rainbow of unicorns, kittens and candy for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But, my goodness, enough is enough.


Of the bad stuff….And some of this bad stuff is being touted as transitional, punitive. Supposedly to make it all “go away.”


What or who go away?

You.

Your beautiful self that is wrapped up in the package that is you.


That sounds mean to me.

How about you?

What do you think?

What would you do?


If someone said to you:


“You are not good enough because you are too tall, too short, too black, too brown, too girl, too boy, too smart, too stupid, too slanty-eyed, too bowl-legged, too pigeon-toed, your hair is too curly, your hair is too light, your hair is too dark, your hair is too thick, your eyebrow is too thick, your other eyebrow is too thick, your smile is stupid, your smile is creepy, your teeth are crooked, your teeth are pointy, your toes are crooked, your nose is ugly, you have too big ears, you smell funny, you act weird, you are not cool, you are not cool because you don’t trash talk like so and so, you run weird, you skip weird, you walk weird,


”You play ball like a girl”.


But you are a girl.

You are not a boy.

So. Should you not play ball like a girl?


See. The almighty reparations are destined and designed to repair this malady. Be the remedy of all remedies. Sans the deep dive into one’s own soul. Instead they become a band aid on a scab and scar that never really heals.


The punitive-ness being a fine, penalty, or confinement, or the removal or denial of something pleasant or desirable. I warned you this adult-like stuff and thinking stuff was insidious. Adults justify the plan to include retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation.


To that I reply with a drop to the ground and a loud laugh of

“Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha,

Those darn adults ARE funny sometimes in a completely scarey kind of way. Inflicting something negative, or unpleasant, on a person or animal, without authority or not on the basis of a breach of rules is typically considered only


Revenge. Or. Spite.


rather than punishment.

Who decides that?

You. Me. The adults😳


Reciprocity can be a fickle beast to wrestle with time and time again. That is why the word transitional Justice is attached to reparation. It is only temporary. It is not habitual. It usually does not require a deep dive of one’s own soul.


Further. When the crime is a designer crime, that pretty much tells us it was designed with a specific outcome in mind. Reparations rolled into the joint are not healthy either. Not only considered war damages, but also compensation and other measures provided to victims of severe human rights violations by the parties responsible.

Gross and systematic violations of your human rights. (wk)


Before you even knew you had a human right.


I do not know about you kids, but you are more than your catatonia, color coded self, even oldish self if held back in order to catch up. The world cannot continue to pay for the unfairness life imposes on each of us individually. A reasonable person agrees.


The full capacity to reason.


Will you kids ever be allowed to know what that even means at the rate the train wreck is moving? The fact that we can now see into our brains makes us destined to succumbed to a return to infancy. A term called infantilization. This is the prolonged treatment of one who has the mental capacity greater than that of a child as though they are a child. Studies have shown that an individual, when infantilized, is overwhelmingly likely to feel dis respected. Such individuals may report a sense of transgression akin to dehumanization. (wk)


Enter the robot?


Robots are to rule the world in your mind and head? The train wreck is moving in that direction.


The good news: No matter how hard the robotic-obsessed adults try to get into your heads. There are real persons who care about you. And your head.


The difference between ableism, autism, ageism, racism. Is real humanity. And a beating heart.

A heart. A beating heart that knows when to stop pressing the buttons of their fellow man.


This other reparation stuff. Good and patient kids, thank you for waiting for the adults to finish with their “fix” about the robotic reparations they believe will save the world. Your world. Your futures.


What many adults failed to see and do not realize is they were the ones who needed to be saved a long time ago. They have needed to be saved from themselves a way long time ago. They think the reparations will solve your problems. The sad truth is it will never solve their problems.












February 10, 2023 00:48

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