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No Sympathy For The Devil, The Dentist, Or His Wife

8/25/2022

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      A couple of weeks ago a pair of wealthy, well-known Rochester, New York socialites of high social status, dentist Nicholas Nicosia and his real estate agent  wife, Mary,
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...threw a pool party at their fabulous manse.
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      The theme of their summer bash was a mockery of Juneteenth. The yard was decorated with jokey Juneteenth signs and flags, Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets and Party City cutouts like the one below of Donald Trump.
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      The Nicosias served their guests fried chicken and expensive Hennessy Cognac.
       Among the invited guests was Rochester Fire Captain Jeffrey Krywy ​.
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     Now, Captain Krywy happened to be on duty the night of the party, but he really wanted to go, so to cover his elbows he ordered several of his subordinates who were on duty that night to go to the party with him in the firetruck. (I expect that taking the truck made it official business).
     Among the firefighters who were pressured into going to the party was Jerrod Jones, a 14-year veteran of the Rochester Fire Department.
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      Jones was appalled by the party's blatantly racist theme and angry that he'd been made to attend while on duty. He found especially offensive the presence of an entertainer impersonating Democratic Monroe County legislator Rachel Barnhart who was gyrating in a sexual way while the laughing crowd yelled sexually explicit comments.
       Jerrod Jones is now suing the city of Rochester and Captain Jeff Krywy resigned before being fired. As for Nicholas and Mary Nicosia, they called a press conference with their lawyer,
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...to let the world know that they were being wrongly persecuted by the woke, politically correct cancel culture, that that they didn't have a racist bone in either of their bodies, and that they did nothing wrong.
      Well, all right, Mary Nicosia did admit - because by then it had gone viral several times 'round the world and back - that she did have a couple of blatantly racist twitter accounts that she published under the pseudonyms "Colonel Nathanial Sanders" and "Ho-Ho-HomeboyROC":
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      But the couple cried bitter public tears that they're being victimized, that their world has come crashing down, and that their lives and professions are ruined.
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       As for me, I have zero sympathy for either of them. In fact I have less than zero sympathy for these people.
        I know it's said that to understand all is to forgive all, and I guess that's my problem: I don't at all understand Nicholas and Mary Nicosia. I don't understand how someone could be so consumed by hatred that they would feel compelled go out of their way to have two twitter accounts just to spew their venom; to go to the labor and expense of throwing a nasty, ugly party just to spout their poison. I don't understand how anyone could even have gone to that party. If I walked into such a party I'd turn around and walk out. I don't understand anyone who wouldn't. 
       And I especially don't understand why two such wealthy people, rich in money, social status, family, professional satisfaction, possessed of every good gift that heaven could bestow, would need to look down on and demean others, especially others who might not be as fortunate as they are.
        Still, there's no doubt that for all their wealth and status, Nicholas and Mary Nicosia are now two pretty sad, miserable people. No doubt their world has, as they proclaimed at their press conference, come crashing down. 
         As Matthew so thoughtfully pondered in chapter 16, verse 26: What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? 
Reference:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-firefighter-alleges-captain-took-racist-party-mocking-juneteenth-rcna42782
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10/23/2022 05:44:30 am

hanks for sharing the article, and more importantly, your personal experience of mindfully using our emotions as data about our inner state and knowing when it’s better to de-escalate by taking a time out are great tools. Appreciate you reading and sharing your story since I can certainly relate and I think others can to

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