Ok everyone – This is my first and only rant on hate.   I have never been someone who expects everyone to feel about a person or group of people as I do, so I have never posted publicly that “so-and-so” must die or used any number of racist slurs that trust me – I know…  First and foremost – I am not a racist or homophobic or any other hateful statement that has been flying around the many media sources, I am in fact a prejudiced person – that means by true definition that I judge everyone before getting to know them.  Yes, a lot of these opinions are based on stereotypes and from my 35+ years dealing with the public in some form of customer service.  I am not saying that this is a good thing, or that I am a good person for being this way – I am just telling the truth. 

When I see the crouch of someone’s pants at their knees and an oversized flat billed baseball cap – I automatically think thug, when I see someone covered in “Jailhouse Tattoos” – I think trash.  When I see young girls dressed like adult hookers – well – you get my drift.  But – as anyone who has really gotten to know me – I also can change those opinions – My own daughter is a member of the LGBTQ community, wears her pants lower than most thugs I have seen personally and one day I will curve that hat like it is supposed to be…  She is not a thug – or some of her friends for that matter – but the majority of those she has brought around have been. They have all been told to should her Daddy respect and he will return it.  Isn’t that what we all were taught??  To treat others as we would be treated ourselves??? 

I don’t care what your personal beliefs are – as long as they don’t interfere on my life  - and I will do the same for you.  Hate destroys this.  Hate makes people treat others the exact way they don’t want to be treated.  And why do we hate?  The color of someone’s skin?  Who they pray to?  Who they share their love with??  Really – why does this matter to anyone but themselves??  Just because we don’t understand others doesn’t mean that we should automatically hate them.  This is what Radical Muslims are doing to us – and we don’t want to be treated that way. 

As everyone should know by now – Kathy Griffin recently did a tasteless photo shoot depicting a beheaded Trump.  Really?  This was funny to her?  Now I understand that in the past random anonymous people have burned, lynched or otherwise embarrassed and tortured past POTUSes – but again they were anonymous and difficult to prosecute.  But prosecuted they should have been.  These are to incite anger and hatred so by definition – they are a hate crime. 

Now Trump may not be your ideal President – Hell – he’s not my ideal President – but he is our president, elected the way our founding fathers designed – and if you are not happy with the way it happened – call your Congress-person and Representatives and get an Amendment to get it changed – stop spewing hate and get it changed the correct way.  The more hate you spew – the more that gets returned right back.  I dealt with Slick Willie for 8 years – no matter what I thought of him…  then  8 more years of W – no matter what we all thought of him in the end…  Then 8 years of Obama and his ilk.  Trump is not my first pick – but I am glad that for the first time since Carter (who was terrible in his own right) – we have someone who is not a Washington stooge… Can we please stop fighting and throwing poop at each other like monkeys – W’s military record, Bill and his 1000’s of women, Obama and his Birth Certificate and Trump and his “Russian Collusion” – These we all unfounded and mostly unproven things that have wasted our time and resources – The only one that I haven’t had a problem with was the Clinton E-mails –but that is for a different rant…

I know this has gone a little off track – but then again – it is a rant – when do they ever go where you expect them to go…  Feel free to comment on anything I have said in this – discussion is the best way to get past the hate…  (See how I got back there…)

Off my soapbox.