Author: Reena Saxena

Reenais the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge

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They proclaim to be the righteous ones

Holder of all good thoughts that anyone can think

They have a mission to correct all the wrongs anyone has done

With burning batons of fire, they march on

The old must be destroyed to create the new they proclaim

The tree of evil must be rooted out before fresh saplings are planted

No sacrifice is too great to achieve the purity they desire

No deed too dastardly to complete their mission

They will demolish the present to bring home a perfect future

Rivers of blood and tears flow on the way to utopia

Beware of these well meaning ones

Those who think they will fix all that is broken here

It’s not a worry for them when they wreck havoc

In the name to making things better

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Reena asked us to choose from a list of questions and answer. This is the one I chose.

“For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.”

I wouldn’t have a clue how to answer the other questions because they seem to be more rhetorical than looking for an answer. This one, though, is one I can write to. During the 18 years I worked as a juvenile probation officer, there were things some might call evil that I was willing to do, but I would never say that those acts were acts of hatred.

I still remember sitting in the interview with one of the administrators and the person who would be my immediate supervisor and learning that part of my job would be to put…

Colin Kaepernick is bad for football; he is a bad seed and I could readily do without him.  He is the guy who would not stand during the national anthem and LeBron James is among the celebrities who jumped on the bandwagon to support him.  He has alleged that NFL owners have conspired to keep him out of the league.  Pete Rose should be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame way before Kaepernick is ever allowed back into the NFL.  Kaepernick claimed that he was protesting racial injustice and police brutality against people of color, but he was being paid to play a sport, not to be an activist.  He hasn’t played a game since becoming a free agent in the offseason of 2017.  The NFL has reached a settlement with Colin Kaepernick after he was blackballed.

Kaepernick said, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in…