POWER

Note:  I sat on this a long time before it got printed

There is a book, Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukov  It was on the NY Times best seller list for a long time

In it he talks about power  There is authentic power by people that have a product they produce  Artist, writers etc.

Secondary power is sex, money, guns, drugs etc.

He failed to mention the most common power of them all  The POWER of denial

I use to drive cab at night in and around Charleston, S.C.  I spent a lot of time in the darkest part of the hood

Gradually, after a couple of years I slowly began to come to a conclusion, specifically

.......these people love the streets...!!!

Then I checked myself and thought, am I biased?  Am I seeing what I want to believe  So I started observing with an un-biased  eye

I came to the same conclusion, they luv the street

I came to the realization it was about the power of denial

The less power people have the more anxious they are to exercise it

These people were powerless

Young girls would walk out in front of traffic with out even looking up

Teen agers would block half the street and not move  Make me drive around

One time someone in a cross walk, saw me coming and deliberately slowed down

They were exercising the power of denial

They were controlling the space

Michael Brown, the guy shot in Ferguson, Missouri was in the middle of the road  When told to use the side walk he ignored a trigger happy cop

My advice, stay out of the street