2005-9-4 00:00:00
First, I thought I would say a few words about the press. The topic has come up as to whether it is treating the Katrina story with fairness.
My opinion is that the press, as a whole, teats nothing with fairness where there is any opportunity to inject bias.
We hear a lot of talk of the "liberal media" and justifiably so. Surveys taken by liberals themselves reveal that 85-90% of the media people voted for the democratic presidential candidate in the past several elections. In colleges and universities liberal teachers and professors teaching anything to do with the media often outnumber conservatives twenty to one or more. Any conservative who speaks up is often railroaded out of a job.
It is thus a well researched and verifiable fact that the media, as a whole, is dominated by the liberal side. To think that there can be such dominance and that great bias will not enter in is only entering the land of illusion.
Now am I saying this because I am a right wing radical? No. I am performing the unusual act of just stating what is true to put our views in the right perspective. Just as I am offended to have left wing bias thrown in my face every day I would be equally offended to hear the media continually taking the side of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
Here is what I notice every time a big event occurs. It is as if an agenda has already been set by the media and that agenda comes from this thought that appears to me to always be floating around in the vast majority of the media's mind. It goes something like this:
The problems in this situation are obviously caused by conservatives or conservative policy. Let's see... where is the link between the evil we see and the right wingers?
This biased mindset is obvious in the recent catastrophe. The evil that is seen is the suffering of poor blacks in New Orleans and the blame for this suffering is placed upon the racism, not of liberals, but only conservatives.
I think it is outrageous to be placing blame at his early date. The main thought of the media, politicians and the people should be centered upon helping the victims. There will be plenty of blame on both sides to go around later. People just need to realize that in a calamity of this magnitude that bureaucracy just does not work well wither it be presided over by liberals or conservatives. If we had another similar calamity tomorrow in a white population area the problems of getting to the people to save them would be the same. To suggest that Bush or those under him are dragging their feet because blacks are affected is very mean-spirited in my opinion. It would have been equally as wrong to have immediately blamed Clinton for delays in saving victims in the Oklahoma bombing.
A much bigger evil than current racism in relation to this calamity is the use of the problem to advance political agenda rather than merely seeking to make the prime directive to help he victims and just report the news as it actually is without making subtle political attacks.
Any current problems with racism in New Orleans goes back to causes induced generations ago that produced a disadvantage (much of it psychological) that has still not been worked out. The poor there have been in a rut for a long period and when in this situation occurs it is difficult to work out of it. It is quite possible that this current disruption is part of an act of the divine mind to breakup this gridlock and disperse these people to different influences where healing will eventually occur.
Nature only puts up with stagnate waters for so long and then it acts to bring purification. Unfortunately, the act that brings the purification does cause temporary distress.
Does racism still exist in the U.S.? Sure it does, but nothing like it was even a generation ago. And that which does exist is not the exclusive property of conservatives. I have seen just as much racism among liberals as conservatives so there is plenty off blame to go around. For the media to insinuate that only conservative racism creates problems is obscene, especially at this point of crisis where we definitely need unity instead of more division.
Another thing we need to be careful of, is attacking each other here in this group. Sharon, for instance, presented her predictions and thoughts. To agree or disagree is fine, but to call he wrong because she is in league with evil is the wrong approach in my opinion.
For example, let us suppose Jim is trying to solve a mathematical problem. He goes to three sources for an answer. First, he goes to a professor of mathematics, secondly to a friend who studies math on the side and thirdly to a devious computer hacker. Finally, he does additional studying and uses his internal faculties to come up with the best answer.
Now the professor represents the Masters, or higher lives, the friend the astral zone, the hacker the Dark Brotherhood, and the internal faculties his own soul.
The truth is this. If Jim takes information from any of these sources and throws them out to us, then any of this can be used for good or evil depending on the soul contact of the person receiving it. In the end it is not up to the outside source for truth, but that which is within us.
More than anything else, I have attempted to stimulate soul contact in this group and because of this I do not mind presentation of ideas from any source, right or wrong here. It all provides a good exercise in soul contact for the group as we attempt to feel the chords of truth as they vibrate.
Note. In using the terms liberal and conservative in this article I am using them as they are defined by the media. Secondly, I am blaming no one individual for attacking here, but using this idea to teach a principle.
Memory feeds imagination. Amy Tan (1952 - )
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