Being comfortable in your own skin, feeling the privilege of your own blessings, and experiencing a state feeling in oneself as a worthy human being is an internal state for all humans, and is more basic than race. We live in a democracy and apparently haven’t understood that simple, fundamental truth. The truth is you can’t be conferred the status of a CPWP because you must have as an individual, the emotional stability, courage and developmental blessings to live as a truly comfortable person on this planet. If the those attributes could be conferred externally we wouldn’t be the most armed nation in the world. We would be the United States instead of the divided states. If Americans were comfortable with the privilege of their own skin, we wouldn’t have the government we presently have. If there were even a majority of CPWPs in America, we wouldn’t have racism, but rather we would be mutually helping all, be they CPWP’s and CPCPs (Comfortable Privileged Colored Persons). 

Being comfortable and offering comfort needs to supersede the memes of this age. I talk with a lot people and have found on the whole all races and genders are in deep distress. Unfortunately, too many are being played and suckered by people who understand that lacking comfort and confidence destabilizes a human being and opens the door for nearly endless commercial and political exploitation. 

Modest Proposal for Good

Drop the stereotyping, scapegoating and promotion of self loathing. Stop using guilt and shame to motivate change. All those efforts do is lock down and accentuate existing behavior into the predictable, reactionary and amazingly, commercially exploitable patterns. Our current government is largely a reaction to insult and it doesn’t matter if the insults to the voting public were merited or not. They showed us you can even use shame based rage to buy an election. We currently have a leader who flings insults like the mimicking five year old testing limits from watching adults curse. To feel comfortable in one’s skin is necessary to transform thick skin into the semi-permeable sheath of protection required to feel empathy. To be comforted and to offer comfort is to release authentic feeling through empathy. The ability to feel a mirrored pain from someone else’s circumstances is essential for compassion and empathy. We have too many men and women in government who do not have the confidence, courage or skills to deal with the necessary and instructive, corrective pain of this age. In fact, empathy and compassion are presently defensively disdained as weakness. Our current government tends to live and work in cartoons of shame and hidden regrets. In truth, all we can do for one another is comfort, feel the pain appropriate to the errors (sins) of our times, accept the privilege of being alive at all, and move on doing good together. Working with corrective pain dissipates shame and atones guilt. That would be good.