Who I am! Part two So last post, I started telling you a little about myself, and the blog turned to my experience with racism growing up in Northwest Florida. Yes, I am white, but witnessing acts of racism didn’t sit well with me, and that is why I joined the Navy to get away from it. I can tell you that joining the military didn’t get me away from racism, but that will be addressed in another blog, which will also give you some idea about my service-connected disability. Today, we will be looking at something else entirely that also contributes to who I am. My love of science, history, cultures, reading, and learning. The last one is surprising because when I was in school, I hated doing homework. I loved taking tests and acing them, but homework was boring, and it sucked. Today, I regret having that attitude back then. Oh well. I have always been curious about how things worked and why things happened, and I guess that is why I love science and history. Some of my earliest...
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Who I am! I guess I should start by introducing myself. My name is Charles Parmele. I am a 57-year-old disabled Veteran. I spent 11 years in the United States Navy's submarine service. Now, I am working on becoming a writer. Does that give you a picture of who I am? I bet you are forming a picture in your mind. You think that I’m a white guy in a wheelchair and that I spend my time watching Fox News, blaming all my problems on the liberal democrats. You probably picture me wearing a red MAGA hat. (Give me a second to recover. Just writing that made me throw up in my mouth a bit.) You think this because that’s the image that comes to mind because of stereotyping. If you look at a demographic breakdown of Trump supporters and with the limited biographical information I provided you think that is where I fit in. Wrong. No, I am not MAGA, and I don’t support Trump and never have. I am a Christian but not the Republican type who thinks Heaven is a whites-only country club. I ...