Texas Pride

I am proud. I am proud to be a lot of things. Mostly I am proud to not be the STIGMA so many people place on me simply because of which state I reside in, which region, county, city, neighborhood and house, my southern accent, my pasty pale and nearly transparent skin, my obtuse ideals, my job, education, belief and morals that encompass me.

I am going to make this post completely fun for us, because lets face it, life is not to be taken too seriously, and it sucks the fun out of living. Too often I see people too immersed in being right, rather than listen. I see people immediately begin insulting others viewpoints in the name of advocating for gay marriage, transgender-ism, abortions, politics, religion, basically you name it. I imagine my idea is obtuse, however I try to remain respectful to other ideas, and see it from their point of view, lest they call me an idiot simply because I think a little differently than them. Do you even realize how moot you made your point by doing this? You are rallying often for an equal right community that simply wants, love and trust and acceptance, but anyone that doesn’t agree with me is a moron. HA! That’s a weird way to win them over, but hey, whatever you think helps.

Being from Texas and making a comment like, “I hope Jeb Bush doesn’t make presidency.” (Maybe because I am tired of a recycled lineage of Presidents, and want to see real change, and not because I don’t like him, I just think a change, a large one, is more essential than running back to a comfort zone. This could literally be my only reason). It usually incites the following statements.

Oh so you are from Texas and you don’t like the Bush family, you are such an ill-educated Libtard, or are you an Independent Socialist. You are stupid my friend, you also miss-spelled from, its f-r-o-m and not f-o-r-m, your grammar is wrong. I bet you are one of the people that didn’t make it past 8^th grade because you and your hillbilly redneck horse-riding cousin had your first child at 11. I would bet your car even has a rebel flag on it you racist, homophobic moron. You people in Texas just don’t get it. Do you even realize that George Bush is from Texas? That’s right I bet you didn’t because you didn’t finish middle school. I would wage you are a bible thumping hypocrite, that thinks the government should have say over your body and what you do with it.  Yeah people say all this, on a very broad statement. My favorite to date is someone telling me they were shocked felons could vote! HAHA. Someone went as far as analyzing my profile and going after my Irish ancestry and appearance. LOL. (Feel free to add on…lol, I am resilient)

People, respect each other. Not every thing is in the literal sense. Maybe I am just tired of paper-doll presidents and want to break the cycle, and try something new.

By the way I can spell and I speak grammatically correct, I made only A’s in every aspect of English/ Language Arts for my entire education, even through college! (Yes, I attended college!) Type errors, or miscommunications and ADD are a bitch when trying to explain yourself, that doesn’t lower my IQ, or make my spouse my first cousin…lol (Seriously Texas is huge! I probably have an easier time finding someone I am not related to than some of the smaller states you can drive across in two hours (no offense smaller states, I am making a point, not an implication.) I cannot change my accent; anymore than the person calling me names change their DNA. As for Bush, he RESIDES in Texas, and is not FROM Texas, there is a difference. I am not left wing or right wing, I feel that left or right, those wings are of the same bird. I select people based on their platform and actions; before I even look at what party they are from. I have a bible, I read it, I have never thumped it, nor have I force-fed its information to unwilling parties, it is simply a piece of me. I am not homophobic or any other sort of phobic. I may agree or I may not, it’s simple as that, but in now way will I hate or treat people mean because of a difference.

Signed, And the horse you rode in on (hahaha)