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We had another snow on Sunday. Monday the kids were making snowmen. They were whipping up huge balls of snow, smiling the whole while. The older kids quickly destroyed them. All of them. Before we even left the playground. We have an insatiable appetite for destruction. We destroy it all. A child is wired to destroy. To build and then tear down. People. We tear down people. We destroy them. We build them up, and rip them down. Before we even leave the playground.

The real debate that comes out of the police brutality cases we've had over the course of the last year is of White Privilege. Does it exist? Are some people born to a more advantageous life, simply because of the color of their skin? There are many who would say no. Many who would claim that the ideal, that "All men are created equal", currently rings true in our society. I don't see it. We have come from a lineage where money was part of the equation. While we didn't all come from that, there certainly were poor & struggling Germans, and Irish, Polish, & others, many have a history that at the very least, did not involve being bought and sold. Can an African American work hard and be successful in this country? Yes. Do they need to work harder? do more to prove themselves trustworthy? Shake off the bias? Absolutely. Absolutely they do. They are treated differently, whether worse, or better, in a small town like the one I grew up in. I am ashame

I think I want to try my hand at writing a song. It won't be run of the mill, I promise that much. Thinking over songs that have... how do I say this in a meaningful way... become a part of me over the years, there are some common elements that are shared. I like the gritty song. I like the song that starts rough, that isn't just admitting defeat, but butting heads, fighting with God. Not just to be edgy, but to be honest. I like the songs that are frustrated. I am drawn to elements of Jimmy Eat World and Linkin Park, not the emo part, but the part that is real and honest. I love songs that elude to the depths that God is willing to go to. Songs that show our shame. Songs that remind us that we were, are, and will continue to be undeserving. I like songs that call us out of the depths. Songs that call for more than change, more than a percentage. But songs that demand a revolution of the human spirit. I want a song from a different perspective. A song that tells us some