I am sure you have heard how awesome meditation is and how it changes
your mood and overall health, but does it really change your brain? To answer
this question, we need to define what meditation and what action is should be
considered meditation. If crossing your legs bare footed and closing your eyes
is comes to your mind, I suggest you consider your definition of meditation. This
is because I have tried crossing my legs to relax to my body and brain
countless times and never satisfied once, however, when I do body movement such
as stretching (yoga), cycling and so on my brain and body changes. I sleep more
and have more energy throughout day. I am not sure exactly why crossing my legs
and closing my eyes never worked for and I am sure there are people out there who
enjoy crossing legs and consider as meditation. The idea is to find something
that works for you and start meditating
I am not old enough to tell you that how simple news media used to be, and I have feeling that you do not need anyone to tell you that either, but lately I have noticing how cable news is killing journalism. Cable news networks want to cover news 24 hour but unfortunately there is no news that is enough to fit 24 hour to be spin off and they are starting to bring large group of people from different political affiliation who are not exert at anything except false narrative that can not be verified right away. What happened to real journalism, finding truth about corporation, or disposing government outreach. It seems print news are doing their due diligence and not exaggerating news in order to win audience for rating purposes. For example, in 2014 when Malaysia airplane disappeared cable news media started speculating wild idea and CNN took it to the next level by introducing theory that supernatural might be at play without any shred of evidence. CNN’s Don Lemon asked one of his guests if might be black hole or Bermuda triangle might be involved and CNN’s rating soured through the roof for exaggerating the news which led FOX News to cover CNN’s coverage of Malaysia airplane disappearance. These kinds of stories are the exact reason why cable news killing journalism to reach wider audience and boost ratings
Are you bully? If yes, you already know what I will be talking about so read my other blogs. Or have you seen bully person. If yes, what do you remember about them. They are loud and show off other people what they are doing. I can tell you this, bully person is coward in nature because they only target those they perceived as weaker, so long as you remain passive and complaint, you make yourself target. You should never stay complaint hoping that they will come to their sense and one day stop bullying you. Most people will you that to place yourself in a position where you can safely protect yourself and you might ask, how about bully how is bigger than you. I will tell you otherwise, be willing to bully the bully themselves until they know that you are not weaker person. I remember friend of mine who was smaller in size but was most feared person in our group. If older guys bully him, he will start fight every time he sees that person. Whether they are ready for fight or dressed up for wedding, o mourning for their mothers’ grave. I am not suggesting you bully but I will tell you that make bully to never ever bully you because if you let them once, it will be haunting you forever
Someone shouted famous slogan
“Run, Joe, Run” as Joe Biden was begging to address House Democratic retreat in
Feb 2018 hoping to challenge Trump 2020 presidential race. The idea that Joe
Biden challenging Trump to restore American dignity in domestic and abroad
itself is crazy and wild to me. Joe Biden is the definition of status quo and
stands everything that is wrong in this country because of his record in the
senate. Biden was opposed federally mandated busing policy designed to end segregation
in schools in 1975. His excuse, he was concerned backlash from his white
constituency. Imagine if that Biden wants to run as champion for rights of
minority in this country.
The same guy who sat silently
in Anita Hill hearing as she testified powerful supreme court nominee and
recalled horrific memory of assault that haunted her for years. He sat silently
acting he cared the victim, but his actions said otherwise. As chairman of
judicial committee, he could have called other witnesses to collaborate her
story or start investigation to verify her accusation but worried backlash from
his committee. The same guy who wrote the crime bill that targeted African
American communities and destroyed so many families in 90s for injustice
incarceration wants to be our savior for this country. The same guy who touches
women without their consent and violates their rights and argues that that is
how he connects people, or he is old school. This guy took every short cut in
the book to stay in power and refused to do the right. Voting Joe Biden to be
president in this country is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing
over and over again expecting the same result. There is reason this country did
not change for everyone and we are still fighting for same rights as everyone
else. This is because the democratic party promises to change every election
but never fulfills its promise. They only remember their constituency the
election cycle and fail to do their duty. I say enough is enough, we should
tell the democratic party to either change or be dumped and for Joe, I say DO
NOT RUN JOE!.
Almost three years ago, I quit
my job to pursue my passion of becoming Software Developer which has been long
dream of mine since childhood. At the time, I had wife and two-year-old who
depended on me to support and any decision of quitting my job to pursue dream
was difficult. This is because I had to abandon my personal responsibility of
taking care my family, but I also knew that unless I take risk with my life for
the greater good nobody would hand me an opportunity unless I seek for it and I
will be saying what if for the rest of my life. It had been constant struggle
in mind for month until I read how Jeff Bezos left six figure salary to start
Amazon and it validated my inner thought of pursing my passion. Two months
later, I quit my job and signed up coding bootcamp called the Software Guild in
Minneapolis and after gruesome 4 months I landed my first job as developer and
I am excited that I took that incridible step of pursing my passion.
If I had not made that decision, I would be
stuck cubical somewhere in Minneapolis counting the hours when the day would be
over.
Lately, I have become obsessed
how so-called traditional media report crimes differently based on race and
identity in this country. This obsession led me rabbit hole to figure out
reasons behind this biased reporting. For example, MPR news posted an article
on their website titling “Man allegedly flashed gun at Somali-American teens in
Eden Prairie McDonald’s” and when I read this article it upset me so much that
I abruptly ended my donation to the station. It bothered me not that grown man
decided to pulled gun on teens but how MPR news chose to report the news. The
title of the article as well as reporting identifies the identity of victims
but not the perpetrator of this horrible crime which tells me that the
perpetrator is one of us, but these kids are not part of our community. I was
confused that what made that man Eden Prairie man but not these kids. If Man
was not white or these teens happen to be white, what would the article titled?
Would it be “Man allegedly flashed gun at Somali-American teens in Eden
Prairie McDonald’s”. This is not one incident that slipped away in their
reporting, it is standard way of reporting crime classification at MPR news. If
you routinely listen MPR news, you will be forced to become aware the identity
of perpetrator or victim if they happen to be part of the minority community.
Its calculated decision to label minority communities so dangerous in this
country. Studies show that most American’s believe that black and brown people
are dangerous, and we quickly dismiss the outcry of minority victims and police
are quick to shoot them to contain their so-called violence behavior. You
wonder where this cognitive belief that black and brown folk are so dangerous
come from? Wonder no more, it come from decades of media wrongly reporting how
dangerous we are without shred of evidence.
One study by Color of Change found that 51 percent of people arrested for violent crimes in New York city are black, but 75 percent of news reports are arrests highlighted black perpetrator. In the incident at McDonalds in Eden Prairie in Minnesota, the narrative behind that story is that what made an elderly man to pull his guns at black obnoxious kids, was he afraid of his life? I think the media is driving this false narrate of black people are dangerous whether they are victims or perpetrator to divide the communities in this country.
You have got to listen this
amazing audio about how Racial Bias in Crime Reporting by WNYC by following
this link.
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