"Use All The Crayons!" ... Race Relations
Very gratified by the reaction to the “Use All The Crayons!” podcast. If you haven’t checked it out, it’s a mix of me weighing in on my best storieswith story separation being gonged by authentic Latrobeans reading their favorite “Colorful Living Tips of the Day …” I hope you’ll check it out and — all together now! — “Share! Rate Review!”
One, perhaps, benefit of me doing the podcast is for you, the readers, may start getting more blog posts like this one about the new pool table at The Tin Lizzy. I’m finding it helpful to pick a theme, blog about it, then tie it all together in the podcast. So if you come to this for fresh blog content, Woo! Hoo!
One podcast fan said the world really needs voices like mine right now. She thinks my humor is funny, heartfelt and inclusive. If you believe that, too, then I really need you right now. Seeking money from you is a persistent drag on us all. I think I’ve spent to many years asking for money from too many people who don’t have much of it. Like you, right? I’m trying to rectify that by soliciting those with deeper pockets and track records of gracious philanthropy. But that doesn’t let you off the hook! Give! Give! Give! My friend Jim S. sent me $15 when he read I was having some car trouble. That helps! Sorry for the pestering. Enjoy the newsletter!
Today’s MLK Day Theme is … Race Relations
• Commit to memory at least one great quote from as many famous people as you can. For instance, “Evil is not driven out, but crowded out.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
• Suggest we could reduce painful race issues if black and white people would, ironically enough, stop looking at all race issues like everything was so black and white.
• If all the people who so casually remark to relative strangers, "Now, I'm not racist, but ..." suddenly and inexplicably become racist, man, I fear America could be in for some real problems over race.
• I understand we're all hyper-sensitive about race issues these days, but I hope we never get to the point where my black brothers and sisters become blind to the humanity of my empathetic ice-breaker/greeting of "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
• Conservative whites who become livid when wished Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas think blacks over-reacting about unarmed blacks getting murdered by conservative whites.
Other Randoms Race Stuff …
• Urge your local zoo to begin hosting weekly giraffe races on the grounds that each heat is bound to be neck and neck.
• The people of Yuma, Ariz., refer to themselves as Yumans. Make it a bucket list point to enter a 5K there so you can say you’re a member of the Yuman race and have a T-shirt to prove it.
• It’s discouraging to see how many old friends have toiled at lucrative careers and are now one-by-one leaving the rat race, while I slog on, in many ways a bottom line failure. The good news I’ll one day soon have the track all to myself and every day will feel like a victory lap.
Thanks to those of you who recently showed your support for by sending cash or the equivalent to me at PayPal, Venmo, 874 Solomon Temple Rd., Latrobe, Pa, 15650).
All Chris’s books can be purchased through www.ChrisRodell.com