#1317: Tuesday, November 25 - Racism

Post 1317, Day 329 of 2014
- 1,425 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

A little note on current events:

This is a racist country - and it has been a racist country since Europeans encroached on the continent.

I can't/won't complain about what's happened and is happening in Ferguson. As someone who has become too cynical to fight for systemic changes in this country, I don't have that right.

When the story hit the news (so hard, it even reached a non-news-consumer like me), without knowing any facts other than police and witnesses agreed the young dead man was unarmed, I deduced the following, which I still believe, irrespective of what did or didn't actually occur during this particular incident:

If it were an eighteen-year-old white kid, odds are he would still be alive.

I think that's all for today, and I'm sorry, but that's all I have to say, and probably will ever say, about Ferguson.

You also now know how I feel about racism in this country. Ridiculous. Epidemic. Endemic. Institutional. Disgusting. Wrong.

Am I free of racism myself? I wish I could say so, but I'm not. I know there's some old bad programming at work there. I was an ignorant, racist child, but now I fight every negative thought, including my racist prejudice ones, every time I become aware of one.

I think I'm winning the fight.

Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:          205.6 lbs

Previous Weight:         205.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:       + 0.4 lbs

Diet Comment

Hmmm... Too much salt yesterday? That is the only way I can account for the weight gain (I know, I know, I can't really account for anything regarding weight gain - there are just too many variables). 

Food Log 

Breakfast

Eggs scrambled with baby kale and spinach, peppers and onions, spicy tomato oil, and a side of bacon.

Lunch

Roasted turkey breast on baby kale, baby spinach, chard, black beans and cole slaw mix with balsamic vinaigrette. Quest bar for dessert.

Dinner

Ezekiel 4:9 Golden Flax sprouted grain cereal, blueberries, hemp seeds, coconut milk and stevia-inulin blend. And a Quest bar.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake   
Coffee:  24 oz.   Water: 96+ oz.

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