Truths be known, and the substrate to your construct about what is right or wrong...righteous or disingenuous ... I offered a reply. And perspective from the other side.

Victim you are. Victim creates what is when one is not satisfied no matter the possibilities or its progress. Victim, why you might ask when so much is at stake. Sounds daunting...or simply a call out...akin to what you say about all of us needing to "get honest and real."

Something is afloat... akin to lack of self abiding someplace in the lost world of what was when things couldn't be figured out...or more likely, not figured out according to how you see the world. Or likely, taking path that come easiest and calling it a trek...or gauntlet...or even a torrent.

You are bright. Your writing as stories go, is good...as it sang a tune or two if one what inclined to really listen.

But as mysteries unfold, where goes the smart...or bright, when the dimness of despair finds a pulpit in a culture that knells at a whim or first headwind...or simply to what feels good at the moment? The smart goes to a new level of stupid if truths be known. Not because of a lack of intellect. No, not at all.

Hard you say as you call out the white in the racist...or the racist in the white. Woops, hard is what you want if you are truly smart for hard is where the wounds are. Poaching is everywhere it seems as you focus your lens.

To be honest and real as you say, act for actions sake is a lie...or entitled or "saying stuff" but wait a second...hold on here for you can't have it both ways....fool.

Fool being the one who wants immediate change according to their terms and conditions and calls out...while shaming the others who want precisely the same. Poaching is everywhere when tradeoffs are concerned but not one is giving what is sacred.

To your last words, its too late in the day to be anything but...but what? To get honest and real you say over and over again while caring is defined according to not the act. No you demand with a sense of nobility as kings and queens of the moment would have it. The moment according to the victim and the perpetual tyrants having their way...again. And again, its seems. A cycle, if your truth be known, that nurtures nothing but more of the same. Enough be never so... always more needed as victims need their food chain. Or is it simply a buffet line for those who are looking for a hand out. Or worse, a free six course meal.

Think about it is all I am wishing. Not to change a damn thing but to suggest what words and deeds can mean from a different perspective when all that matters is... as you suggest, we...you and I be real.

Thank you for listening. Enough said.

Be well. Keep writing...and thinking...and acting according to what you are truly thinking you are thinking about. Then...just maybe , the problem alluded to via the late in the day perspective will begin a new day for all.

Eric