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America’s culture of blame...
A few days ago I was watching a television program about airline travel. One segment was about a young man who was drunk, loud and aggressive. He was denied boarding because of his behavior. After his arguments fell on deaf ears he walked away complaining. As he stalked away, he turned to the camera and said, "As long as Bush is in the White House we will all be treated like this. Not just me as a black man but everyone will be treated like this." He was blaming the President for his state of drunkenness.
This is a particular culture we have in America that tries hard to find blame in others for decisions they have made in life. He was angry and frustrated but he was not responsible. If he was responsible his state would have been his fault, not President Bush. The person you blame for your circumstances in life becomes the master of your life.
If you blame your parents because they treated you wrong, you are still their little child and not grown up. If you blame poverty, drugs, your race or gender, you are placing the future of your life in the hands of others. You may have made some bad decisions in life that has resulted in a lifestyle you would not have chosen for yourself, but it is still your lifestyle and they were your decisions.
In New Orleans we saw people living generations in a hole. They grew up looking at the levies towering over their neighborhoods and knew the water was 20 feet over them. Still, they watched three days of warning on television about the storm coming. They chose to stay. It was a choice. If the neighborhood was on fire they would have left and gone somewhere else. Instead, they waited for someone else to get them out and blamed them for not acting quickly enough.
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