the Alphas

What a complex subject.

I think Americans believe in war, and resist  the inevitability of consequences with stoic determination. The price of war is the cost of freedom in the vernacular of a mentality that believes constant conquest is business linked to the right of killing and dominating in God's name. I know what 'freedom' means to white Americans. It is different for those conquered. For us freedom is none of the sayings thrown about. The contradictions are glaringly obvious, but speaking against those contradictions falls on deaf years and is heard as heresy, or worse anti-American!...

Peace will never settle here in the U.S.. It is too foreign a concept for a nation, a people used to killing and fighting others... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/8/18

Terror is the things we fear, the things we know lurk in the dark.

"Should homeless vets receive government housing before refugees?" is like a Tet offensive thrown into the face of the lives of people in deep need. 

It is not a fair question. It is more of a challenge engineered to stir up two divisive elements: burning resentment towards one, and the spirit of dictatorial patriotism in another! The history behind the two are from different dark places in the belief structure of this country! The two have to be studied closely by citizens instead of citizens leaping on angry band wagons to fight each other! The attitudes governing the government's policies upon examination are shameful!

There is a lot of responsibility being a global citizen, and an American citizen. The two are one! None of us can afford to wade into complex issues with glibness and allegiance to being ignorant of what the rest of the world already understands!

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

"and the complexity of the above mention issues requires serious long range grasp of more than one, or two issues!"

flag & the Black woman is a study unto itself.

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"I am American as far as my thinking about what patriotism means in the context of being African and American. I am not white and the flag therefore signifies the cross of the Klan, and the killing of my people." this woman seems to be saying without saying! She is telling it like it is! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/5/17