Thought For The Day, Thursday 5/21/20

Playing the race card

I get tired of people playing the race card. I have great friends who are African/American, Asian/American, even Irish/American, who never use their family history as an excuse for their plight in life. In fact most of us,(if we’re honest), are where we are because of good or bad decisions we’ve made. My late father-law had more jobs than anyone I’ve known, because every time he got mad he’d quit.

His family struggled with money because he hadn’t learned how to wait to quit until he had a better job. His ego cost everyone who loved him. I had an African/American woman in Graduate school with me who came from poverty and earned two master degrees and was happily married to her military husband. When President Trump told Weija Jang of CBS to ask the Chinese she played the race card. It was amateur and juvenile. The President has said over and over again that China is the root of this Corona problem. Let’s stop playing the race card! If Miss Jang worked for me I would have told her to be a journalist, control your emotions, and respect the person who’s granted you an interview, whether you personally like them or not. Let’s not play the race card!