I replied to an email message this week, quoting someone else.

Why not say it again from my own lips? Because, the message is mightily received (in this case) when its been spoken elsewhere.

Sometimes, quoting someone else’s words, can make that statement more agreeable. But is that a good thing?
In my industry, ghost writing is sometimes a solution that writers have traditionally chosen, in order to achieve the same results.

Through some anonymity, messages are given a greater survival rate to be heard. For example, a book of poems that are compiled – in which the writers’ racial identities are not revealed – might be a best seller, whereas a promotional tour showing their faces could result in lower conversion of sales among all (or some) demographic groups.

In fact, I go even further with an example: someone who is blind of sight, makes a better listener! And there are many reasons why that is true.

What am I driving at here exactly? Well, someone said on television recently, that “each life matters”. I heard her say it, and she’s right. The statement does not diminish the truthful point that “black lives matter”; but, it expands on that baseline truth. It is rather, a fantastic expansion of that truth, into a larger concept that I never thought would have to be promoted: namely, that “each life matters”. I believe that the US president agrees.

A black woman incidentally said that. And, I’ve long asserted the same in my writings, before hearing her say it. Now let us take this concept one huge step further. I want you to read the Bible verses: ‘Genesis 1:26-27’. In fact, why don’t you read the verses of ‘The Sixth Day’?

If you read this, and you truly understand it, you’ll also be enlightened and come to see that baby-killers don’t quite understand the concept that “each life matters”. And, if they understand that (“each life matters”), well then not only do “black lives matter” – which they do – as only 1 race of many races created by God.

America shows the world and other Americans, that at times, we just can’t seem to do work without in some way injecting racial identity politics, gender politics, age politics, and more, into our public relations. It’s becoming a global pandemic of poisonous thinking. I’m trying to protect myself from it.

‘Identity politics’ becomes a crutch, to explain away the individual failures in what should be morally upright behaviors – practiced every day – by all of us. People are also sometimes rejected, in a lot of places, if they do not satisfy the political zeitgeist of joining particularly branded political speech.

In the specific case of making a good product, you have the liberty to inject whatever identity into it you choose to. You have that freedom. And customers have that shared freedom to buy what they want to.

But, in speaking with one another and in willingly collaborating with one another (or not), there should be some ability to be polite. Have we lost that ability? And, do we no longer understand healthy boundaries or privacy anymore either?

Identity attachments can actually result in making your world a little smaller and your existence more difficult and hard to breath in.

So what do you do if you dislike what someone else says? Well, politely disagree if you can. If you get so fed up, perhaps quit and go elsewhere. What if you don’t like a person you work with, so much so, that it inhibits your productivity? You don’t have to collaborate with him or her! From an employer standpoint, find someone else with whom you do instead – and hire that person. Especially, if they cannot do their job without giving you grief (if you hire them); or if they seek to inhibit your organizational successes rather than contribute to it!

And, as an employer, sometimes you have to fire someone like that. You especially have to, if they seek to undermine you or infiltrate with bad intentions.

But do so, always being mindful of ‘Genesis 1:26-27’.