Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover

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on and Parker looks up. And I'm also gonna talk about on this episode one of the top subject matters in the news today, the student that relief. So I'm gonna talk about that ten thousand dollars student that relieve that usn't inviting just signed I guess into an executive or I guess that's how he did it. I don't know how I did it, but I'm telling you that that's a hot topic the day on the news, the social media, and the newspaper. So Hey, I'm gonna talk

about that in my thoughts on that. So Hey enjoyed this episode because The Lae Book Show is one of the top twenty percent of all podcasts being listened to, so stay tuned. How many times have you made a judgment or decision about something only to find out later on your decision was wrong, your judgment was wrong. I meany times that happened you. Well, if you live long enough and if you experience long enough, well the answer to that should be many times. I know me personally,

I've made the wrong call on many occasions. I think that that's what makes us human, That's what makes us, you know, normal. It's normal to to be wrong, especially when you're looking at something and you're not taking a look at all the available information or facts around it. But if you're wise enough, and if you're growing, then

you are able to make better decisions over time. I mean, we all started out as a child, we all started out, as you know, having little or no knowledge, and as time went on, we've grown, we blossom, and we've been able to make decisions in our lives that culminate in oppositions and status today. You know, always say to myself, life is nothing but something total of all the decisions that you've made in life. When you look back, where you at right now is because of all the decisions

that you make, whether good or bad. But one thing is for certain, to learn from the mistakes and the wrong decisions is really where you ultimately have you grow. Sometimes, and I mean a lot of times, your face with a decision you have to make and you really just don't know what the right call is. And sometimes you got this rely on your gut just hey, I gotta recall him a gut to make my the executive decision

on this matter. But for the most part, most decisions that you have to make, you can make it just by knowing the information and the available facts centered around it. But remember, don't judge your book by his cover. Let me say this again, don't judge your book by its cover. And many of us have done so, only to find out that if we had just opened the book, read the context, look at the available information, study the facts on the matter, we would have made a totally different decision.

We often in life, judge a book by his cover. You know, site travels at a hundred and I belie a hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second. So sometimes the immediate site of something is where we jumped a decision or a judgment. Sometimes you need to just hold up, hold up, let me get behind some of the layers. Let me look at some of the available information before I make a call. You know, when you're going out there and you're going on an interview, you

should look a certain way. Why because the minute the minute you walk in there, the minute you walk in there, Remember, site is faster than sound. I believe sound only travels at what a hundred I mean a thousand or eleven hundred feet per second, while site travels at a hundred and eighty six thousand miles per se. So people see you before you speak. So when you walk in that room on an interview, be conscious how do you look?

Because that's what a person is formulating information about you long before they get a chance to hear you speak about who and what you are and what's on your available resume. So we often judge a book bias cover. But if you we if we're growing, then we need to open that book up, get some more information, you know, so after I hear you, after I reach a resume, talk to you and throughout the interview. Now I can

make it a informed decision. And I'm not judging you by the book the outer But in life we do that a lot. People. We judge each other harshly made many times. In many cases we judge each other. We point the finger and understanding that when you're pointing the fingers, three fingers are pointing back at you. So when we looking at something, UM, be a better listener, get more information, you know, don't always react just on your site, because

that could deceive you. You know, that could deceive you because that's what you see, can affect your emotions in a rapid way, in a rocket way, and then boom, only to find out later, you know, if I if I was to walk into myself. You know, because we watch a lot of movies and we see sometimes like let's say, somebody fighting, right and the police show up. They don't know how they got started, they don't even

know who started it. But a lot of times they assumed the black man or black woman started to fight why, based on color, based on bias based on the fact that society has you know, created these stereotypes, and law enforcement are just consumed with so many of these stereotypes, just like in the black community. You know, the the police is stigmatizing stereotype as being bad, so they're judge, you know, because of the stereotype and how black people

view the police department. They're judged, you know before and they might be an community doing a good act, they might be in the community doing something wrong. But because black people in the black community see the police in such a negative way that they don't even the first thing that pops in the mind is the is the police started it? You see so decent kind of things, And I'm not saying that that oftentimes it's not the case, because it is. It is. The reason why the police

has a bad view. The black people have a bad view of the police in the community is because of the things the police brutally and all the things that police have done the black people over not just a month or a year, but that case and centuries. Does that mean all policemen are bad, No, but it affects the whole institution because too many times have innocent black people been arrested and attacked and beaten and killed. And

this is why that's a major social issue today. So a lot of books are being judged by the cover and not by the content, not by the information, and our society has plagued with judging the cover instead of the contents. We're plagued with these issues in America, We're plagued with these issues in the community. Don't judge a book by its cover. That's the point here. Don't judge

your book by its cover. I know in my own personal life, I personally have made judgments about something only to find out that had I just gotten to know this person or gotten more information, I would have react differently. So it's not like it's not that is an issue that only plagues a few. It's an issue that plagues many, but I would say most in this country. You know, we're very judgmental as people. You know, we all have strong opinions. We all have, you know, very very strong opinions.

We all have our own biases, our own stereotypes. You know, they know that when black people, well, let me black up. We know that when groups of people of the same ethnic group, like white people sitting around the table and they have conversations about society or people. We know that, hey that some things there if we could peek into the conversation that we will find probably offensive, you know,

as as black people would probably find offensive. Okay. On the same note, if we've done this in a Hispanic community, yeah, Hispanic family, they're sitting around talking and we could chime in on what they're talking about with partly going here some things that offensive. The same note, if you're sitting around and listen to groups of black people sitting around at the dinner table, you might hear some things it

might be offensive to another group. You know, there's a lot of judging and pre judging and prejudice just going on in all groups. The reality is that we need to not judge a book by its cover. At the end of the day, Yes, society, you know are you know you're more than an individual. What I'm trying to set You're also part of a collective, a try, a community, a neighborhood, a nation. You're more than just you. So don't judge a book by its cover, and be careful

what you say and how you saying. I hope you enjoyed the episode. We're blessed to have a couple of children authors here at Molik Books. Jessica and Parker carry are in the house they knew in the book shign It, and I have the pleasure to be able to speak with them and feature them on my podcast, Release Books Show. My first question is what inspired you to become an author?

Michelle Obama's Michelle Obama's portrait. Now, this is a six year old child author, and this is amazing, extraordinary, and it's just a confidence booster to be an author at six years old. And so I have Jessica, who's her mom here, I want you to tell us all about that journey. Um. So, after you know, the photo of Parker went thyrol, I really felt like, you know, there was a little moment that happened there that that I

I almost missed. Um that as parents, we probably missed the little moments all the time, right, So, so she had this little moment that clearly impacted her and inspired her. You know, she saw some of herself up there in that portrait of Mrs Obama, and I felt like I

wanted to do a few things. I wanted to write a children's book to kind of memorialize that moment for her, because while she was only two at the time, and while she was clearly inspired, I don't think that she'll fully realize the magnitude of what happened that day and how it impacted her life and our life until she's much older. So I wanted the picture book to to serve as a as a reminder, a tangible reminder and

memory of what happened that day. UM and I also wanted to UM take the opportunity to UM share art and Miss Obama's portrait with people all over the world through um our illustrator Brittie Jackson's beautiful renderings. Hi, yes, yes, yes, Well hey you heard this is organic, this is live. This is what happens at League Books. This is what happens when you are Yanny and you're natural. Well, hey, we're doing a book signing and guess what. Some customers

came in, so the two beautiful books. Parker looks up Parker. Shauns on why I was interviewing Jessica Parker and Parker carry One lady said she was about to cry just walking in the store because we had these books, and how beautiful the stories you heard it. Lyne and so that's what we're doing here in the community. That's what we bring to our community, you know, And this is why I love what I do, and I've been doing it since who this week was hot in the news.

Student loan debt big the public debate. Everybody wants to chime in on it. President Biden announced forgiving student debt student loan debt, I blink and then maximal modis ten thousand. Everybody's talking about it. It's all over social media. You is all over the media, is all over the newspapers for giving ten thousand dollars of your student debt. Different groups of people with debating whether or not this is good for America during the time of reflection and recession.

People debating whether or not they should be just waiving the ten thousand dollars debt from somebody who wiefully took out a loan. Ten thousands is not a lot, but for some it is a lot. And people were debating, you know, whether or not the tax people should fund the build for billions and beings and billions of dollars of student loan relief. Reality is that, yes, people did take our loans in order to go to college. Yes, yes,

this is a huge amount of money. But at the same time, hey, you know, I don't know the impact that this is going to have on society. I don't know the impact overall in the relief this is gonna make in a person's life. But I do know this is that there will be a tomorrow we will having historic account of what it's going to happen. And this is not going to change the fight that we're paying over a hundred dollars to fill up our cars today.

This is not going to change the fact that it's a whole lot more money in order to buy the goods and services just a year ago. This is not going to change the fight that this ten thousand dollars had interest rates have risen multiple times. There's ten thousand dollars student loan relief is not gonna change the fight

that the stock market has been pumpiting. There's ten thousand dollars not gonna change the fight that America has given billions and billions and billions of dollars to the Ukraine War and yet has never done anything to rebuild the inner cities of America. There's ten thousand dollars student loan relief is not gonna change the fact that our supply

chain is all disrupted. There's ten dollars dollars student loan relief is not gonna change the fight that mills of people have lost their jobs, lost their businesses, and lost their livelihood because of these mandates and decisions made by government. And one more point, this ten is not going to change the fight that the crime rate is escalating all

across this nation. So while we're sitting around debating back and forth whether or not whether we should be given out ten dollar knowledge student loan relief, the reality is that we are a lot of other issues that are facing America, this plaguing America, and its affecting our communities, and this ten dollar knowledge is not gonna change any of it at all. Thanks for listening to me Leak's Bookshelf where topics on the sholf, our books, culture and community.

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