by Roger W Davis

Created on: September 08, 2008

I know people are inherently good because my father, like his father with him, brought me up to recognize the source of arbitray attitudes. Kick a dog every time you approach him and he will learn to avoid you when he sees you coming, or growl if you corner him until you commit him into wimpering submission.

As a matter of fact, when a man does not have the self restraint to limit and direct his power over another in a positive manner, it is because he was a taught bully-same-same-coward in a paranoid community which had no common standards of conduct to learn or teach.

Mothering is a full time job even if the mother was brought up to be selfless and serving to others. But a mother who works to put food on another family's table (still selfless and serving, but to the wrong others) comes home to an unapreciating little rug-rat who doesn't know what he doesn't know and is starved of standards by the tramp taught to submit... some where else. Inherently, instinctively, that same child looked up into a face for something to trust and immulate as soon as its eyes open. On that day, and without any understanding except that that face smiled and he smiled and she smiled, the child started his quest for cause and effect. There is nothing inherent about a little bastard of six months teaching a peer what it feels like to be ignored or have a trust robbed from him.

God created everything (John 1:3), and created everything that does exist good (Gen 1:31), therefore all things work together for good to those who love God and are called together for His purposes (Rom 8:28). There ain't no boogieman out there creating evil (Is 5:20; 45:5-7). Just people who were never taught that they know things in part (Is 45:5-7; 1Cor 13:9-10). People who do not have standards to search out and recognize that they themselves are still sucking their mothers' teats (Heb 5:12-14; Is 3:12-15; 10:1-3).

I peeved of a streets and sanitation supervisor the day after I handed him an envelope full of cash the owner of my trucking company had me to deliver to him. I told him the same thing I told my boss the day before. "If either of you ever again hand me something to deliver to anyone, I'll burn right in front of you."

My five year old son was with me that day, so I had to make a decision when the streets and sanitation supervisor assigned me to Blackstone and Prairie, the corner where the Blackstone Rangers gang had their headquarters. Honkeys don't stop in the alley behind Blackstone and Prairie.

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