tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76885664769537484962024-03-05T06:53:24.693-06:00veganelderAbout Mother Earth and her Earthlings
...from a vegan non-oppressive perspective.veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comBlogger499125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-24427829511416661192018-12-15T08:19:00.003-06:002018-12-15T08:19:45.801-06:00Teaching ignoranceand distorted ways of understanding and obliviousness to cruelty and suffering begins as soon as we're born and continues throughout our lives.
Most likely, every person reading this post was given the flesh of animals and the products of animal bodies to eat before they could speak. Their parents believed this was "normal" and "good for them" therefore their children should eat this 'food'. veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-17068075899091814332018-07-31T08:30:00.002-05:002018-07-31T08:30:55.500-05:00Do youreally think it's all about a "war on drugs" and/or "crime"?
Wakey wakey.veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-25990629422810140082018-06-30T02:18:00.000-05:002018-06-30T02:18:15.224-05:00Educate...or ventilate?One of the quandaries I found myself in (and still do) from time to time is encountering someone who exhibits either ignorance and/or obliviousness re veganism. (I'm always sort of stunned at how many folks that eat animals say they "love" animals...although 20 years ago I probably would have done the same thing.)
It's at that point the dilemma presents itself. Do I want to point out the horrorsveganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-26561792955615396512018-06-11T14:59:00.004-05:002018-06-11T14:59:58.763-05:00The Washington Postwrote a story that sort of says the same thing I wrote in my last post.Their headline was: President Trump has made 3001 false or misleading claims so far.
I didn't see their story before I posted...but...there ya go.veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-153496662543678732018-06-03T08:05:00.000-05:002018-06-03T08:05:19.153-05:00The presidentlies...a lot. Here's a link to a story on the New York Times website which was posted in December of 2017 that lists some of them. Links to stories that show the untruth of Trump's statements follow each lie.
A few examples from the first part of the story:
"JAN. 21 “I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.) veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-60799922101185184202018-05-31T06:59:00.001-05:002018-05-31T06:59:11.543-05:00Eight years?Jeez, it doesn't seem like it but I've been posting here since May of 2010.I watched an interview of youtube recently with Ta-Nehisi Coates wherein he noted that, if we're lucky, we go through several instances of learning enough new things that we become (in many ways) a different person.I dunno how to phrase it, his way of expressing it is as good as any I can think of. I can attest to the veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-15519139230114050372018-05-24T14:48:00.003-05:002018-05-24T14:48:43.676-05:00Uh?Aurora: American white man
Orlando: American white man
Parkland: American white man
Las Vegas: American white man
Sandy Hook: American white man
Umpqua CC: American white man
Waffle House: American White man
Texas Church: American white man
If only there were some commonality....
Wakey wakey....veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-38511430091213814792018-05-18T16:33:00.001-05:002018-05-18T16:33:55.973-05:00The First White President...Ta-Nehisi Coates writes with clarity and precision like few other American authors. His incisive essay titled: The First White President is required reading for anyone interested in comprehending the U.S.A. (note: Mr. Coates is aware of, and sometimes sensitive to, but often also oblivious to his masculine socialization.)I strongly urge you to read the essay I've linked above, it is a condensed veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-4066052737103464912018-04-30T08:35:00.002-05:002018-05-01T07:05:39.089-05:00Think about it...
“If Black women were free, it would
mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would
necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.”—CombaheeRiver Collective Statement, 1977
It's true that the destruction of the systems of oppression that harm Black women would likely (it appears that such is true, anyway) free all the human Earthlings...but...it's veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-71037917579194785912018-04-23T06:12:00.000-05:002018-04-23T14:53:48.052-05:00Three black menwho advocated for greater freedom and justice were all murdered within a 5 year span (1963 to 1968) and before they had reached the age of 40.
Medgar Evers, aged 37.
Malcom X, aged 39.
Martin Luther King, Jr., aged 39.
I was transitioning from childhood to adulthood during those 5 years.
It should also be remembered that JFK (age 46) was murdered in 1963 and his brother, RFK (age veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-68730977060019957242018-04-19T19:09:00.001-05:002018-04-19T19:09:38.790-05:00Time for a quote"An astute colleague of mine once observed that liberal democracies in the West were generally run for the benefit of the top, say, 20 percent of the wealth and income distribution. The trick, he added, to keeping this scheme running smoothly has been to convince, especially at election time, the next 30 to 35 percent of the income distribution to fear the poorest half more than they envy the veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-74050673361068351042018-04-08T08:59:00.000-05:002018-04-08T08:59:02.304-05:00I've beentrying to figure out how to think about "identity" for a long long time. (and still am)
I ran across this quote from Patricia Hill Collins that makes it make better sense to me. She wrote:
Intersectionality has attracted substantial scholarly attention in the 1990s. Rather than examining gender, race, class, and nation as distinctive social hierarchies, veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-69379017460543557412018-03-21T06:28:00.000-05:002018-03-21T06:28:33.920-05:00I found this photo
on facebook...and I couldn't resist. It was captioned: "Cat Vader".veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-84687976642373350732018-02-25T08:53:00.000-06:002018-02-25T08:53:19.094-06:00I read this quote andmarveled that it's true that we know all we need to know and have known it for a long long time.
The problem isn't the knowing, it's the remembering and the acknowledging and the doing.
Christopher Lebron wrote in an essay back in January of this year:
"In her alarmingly relevant book, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), political philosopher Hannah Arendt writes, “The ideal veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-23101659882016818852018-02-03T11:19:00.002-06:002018-02-03T11:19:57.314-06:00Earthling
Her name is Fiona...veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-57011482798204915622018-01-18T07:35:00.003-06:002018-01-18T07:35:51.018-06:00I re-read an article..which is something I do...often (I re-read things, especially articles, books and essays that present information created by people who are not members of dominant racial, sexual and sexual orientation dominant groups) because material from diverse sources often offers a perspective and/or information about lived life experiences that are different than what's offered by folks (like me, veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-26544910409402177412018-01-15T06:09:00.001-06:002018-01-15T06:09:48.238-06:00A caveat if you haveread this book or intend to read this book. The title is "White Trash" and it's subtitle is "The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America". It's written by a professor of history at LSU named Nancy Isenberg.I've become much more aware of how often various sources will work to deny or minimize racial oppression in the U.S. and glanced through this book one day in the library just to see what itveganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-75980611477890585572018-01-04T06:13:00.000-06:002018-01-04T06:13:09.474-06:00DeathI initially wrote what I'm putting in this post as a comment on a friend's facebook post about the impending death of a dog who has lived with her for years. She (my facebook friend) was expressing her grief and pain.
I wrote what I wrote and then decided that it wasn't ok for me to respond to her in that way...but...I did want to share the thoughts I had somewhere...so...here they are.
"veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-39264586553486742952017-12-20T05:21:00.001-06:002017-12-20T05:21:45.886-06:00An observation...It seems to me (right now, anyway) that holders of group privilege (e.g.,
white privilege, male privilege, human privilege etc.) are mostly oblivious to that privilege
(in part because society conditions us/them to be so and in part because it was bestowed on us/them, we/they did nothing to earn/deserve it) but those who are
harmed/impacted by that privilege are often (however they're also veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-39866245419346899862017-12-09T08:18:00.000-06:002017-12-09T08:18:34.722-06:00The United States of Huck?George Saunders titled his essay “The Braindead Megaphone” and he wrote:
“America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck. The United States of Tom looks at misery and says: Hey, I didn’t do it. It looks at inequity and says: All my life I busted my butt to get where I am, so don’t come crying to me. Tom likes kingsveganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-24830032704921086502017-11-26T07:40:00.000-06:002017-11-26T07:40:03.342-06:00I was readinga book titled A Man's Life: An Autobiography. It was written by Roger W. Wilkins.I remember seeing him in the news when I was younger and always liked his demeanor and how he spoke as well as what he had to say.In his book, which was published in 1982, he wrote the following on page 366:"The neoconservatives are spending a lot of time these days trying to convince us that America's racial veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-70191900970481286382017-11-14T05:18:00.000-06:002017-11-14T05:18:18.240-06:00Normanis a city with many many trees and those trees are all different sizes and shapes.They often put on quite a show of color in the Autumn and I think maybe this year is one of, if not the most, spectacular I've ever seen.We haven't had a hard freeze and the various trees are changing colors and losing their leaves at different times and rates (because of different timings in their seasonal cycles) veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-18068977118421336742017-10-30T07:56:00.000-05:002017-10-30T07:56:34.171-05:00Babies again...I first published this post back in January of 2013 and it continues to be visited frequently...looking at the wonderful beings here makes me know why.They're beautiful.I admit to finding the babies of my fellow Earthlings mind-bogglingly attractive.
(thanks to all the photographers...all photos were obtained from the internet or sanctuaries)
Here are some examples of why.
Theveganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-66466074486095436052017-10-27T20:18:00.000-05:002017-10-27T20:18:10.947-05:00There is no neutral...
In societies that are deeply entangled with and formed by oppressive structures we either are complicit or we resist...there's no place to hide.
Sorry...veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7688566476953748496.post-78658266915995293382017-10-13T08:08:00.000-05:002017-10-13T08:08:33.977-05:00It makes my head hurt...I recently ran across this image (which was taken from this video). You can find further information on this web-page.
The information graphically represented is from 1999 and shows the percentage of these violent crimes that are committed by men. (these rates stay fairly steady, so the percentages from year to year don't change much)Violence against living beings by men isn't confined to veganelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.com0