Here is a clever idea from the button-down mind of my lovely wife, Millisa. Recently, the folks at Quaker Oats and Mars Nutrition woke up after 130 years and discontinued their stereotypical logos from the company’s pancake mix and fragrant white rice. Millisa said, “The Quaker Oat Company and Mars Nutrition should replace Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima with a bit of Black History on every box of pancake mix and white rice. It would be a heartfelt gesture toward eradicating racism and bigotry around the world. Every month (or at least every February) the mega-corporations could highlight Frederick Douglas or Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps Miles Davis or Rosa Parks. The list is endless. To those corporations, I would underline that there is no time like the present to make a contribution and not just money.”
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Deep Questions
There are many great minds who don’t know any more than you or I regarding the deep questions facing our time and tide. For example: How did the Russians install their supreme operative in the White House? Or, how did the Pope get stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for twenty-five minutes without his magic hat? Or, how old was Donald Trump when he first noticed that his mind had gotten up and walked away? Queries that are worthy of consideration. Such as: How did an entire country fall asleep at the wheel and allow its government to be usurped by a vicious perverted narrow-minded nincompoop? Indeed, probing uncertainties that require immediate answers. For instance, if you live in Alabama, will you be voting for Donald Trump again after he frightened you to death when he tweeted that your state was in the path of the most destructive hurricane recorded in modern history, but in fact, Alabama was virtually as far away from the monster storm as Nebraska? It has been said that ignorance is bliss. If that is the case, shouldn’t Donald Trump be in Seventh Heaven?
