You Guys are Funny!!

[Guest guest]

Before you start attacking me for that statement! I am a LP and yes I

have done things that have help both LPs in general and LPA

specifically.

I will not go into anything specifically that I have done, because again

this list will go down the road of the small unimportant issues, in

order to not address the larger important issues that need to be

addressed. Besides as with all things 1/3 will agree, 1/3 will

disagree, and 1/3 will really have no opinion on the matter.

Now for what is so, funny -

Every time anyone insults or perceives to insults us - you storm at the

insulter. How dare you??? Yell at them, tell them what insensitive,

immoral, jerks they are!! Then when you are done - you pat yourselves

on the back and think boy " I told them " ! You believe that they are so

impressed with what you had to say that they will never do it again!

Boy are you wrong!! Think about it.... If the only contact you have

with any person or group of people, is them screaming at you and

basically saying your " one action/statement " insulted them and that you

are a jerk for doing/saying what you did, how would you react. Then

that same person or group of people then basically disappears from

sight, your thoughts toward them would even be less complementary.

Now here is the funny part, if the average LP took that same energy and

left the shelter they have built for themselves none of that would

really be necessary (Now I don't mean you, I mean the other guy).

The general community does not know about us, because we cut ourselves

off from the community. Yes, we may do what the rest of the community

does live, work, play, but if you think about it, it is only on a very

limited bases.

Examples of Which I have observed

I spoke to an LP who is a professional and is looking for a job, I asked

the LP about their networking in the community and what boards the LP

was on. The response was that besides LPA, family and church, there was

no involvement in the community. In other words no involvement in the

community, except the sheltered one they have built. This LP is highly

intelligent and has many degrees, but has never on a daily bases

demonstrated these attributes to the community.

Another LP was recently asked to chair a committee of University and

Social Service personal, again a professional and in their small

sheltered community very well known. However, here she was asked to

step out of that small sheltered community, into the larger community,

and all they could think to do was turn and run.

Finally, LPs on this list were asked to attend a large dinner where

Danny Woodburn spoke about Inclusion, but only two LPs attended. In

attendance at this dinner were the both the CEO and Chairman of the

Board of Procter & Gamble. Now Procter & Gamble is one of the largest

advertisers in the country, and are presently spending 1.5 billion

dollars to develop Women and Minority businesses. A phone call by

either one of these gentlemen, is all that would be needed to change the

scope of " any " program.

Yet, instead of us sitting down and building a relationship with them,

when we has the opportunity - we are now screaming at them and telling

them how they insulted us.

By the way the reason Danny Woodburn was asked to speak, was that 5

different LPs in the Cincinnati stepped outside of their sheltered

communities and developed a relationship with the organization who

hosted the event to such a degree that they wanted to use their

community platform to reinforce and endorse the issues that the general

community needed to be aware of concerning LPs.

The best way for us to not look funny to the rest of the world, is

before you start yelling at the next person who you perceive insulted

you, ask a simple question - Have I reached outside of my sheltered

community to the general community? Now I am saying as an LP, but as a

involved person who happens to be an LP.