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Letter to the Editor, 7-15-2013
Never before have I seen our country so divided and proud of it. When a person can 'kill' another human with impunity, you have to ask yourself, "Where is our moral compass?"
There appears to be a lack of respect by some for the community in which we all live. The minorities have learned early on they don't count. They are a social liability and will always be just that. The jobs many are given are of the lowest on the pay scale, promotion is arbitrary, health care is subsidized by the state proving once again they are unable to support themselves and marginalized as 'children'.
Florida has put a target on the back of every young black male in America. SCOTUS has gutted the Voting Rights Act because there is no reason for it anymore since we elected a black man to the position of president. If that was true why are the Republican legislatures across the country introducing voting restrictions such as picture ID, gerrymandering to limit minority power to elect their 'kind' to office? They are using their power to limit the number of voting machines available in minority communities so that every voter that wishes to exercise his/her right to vote must stand in line for hours.
The 'minority' schools across the nation are sub par or are being eliminated completely so people are forced to travel great distances to the next available school. The program is 'school to prison'. Maybe a few weeks working a minimum wage job but ultimately, they will be prison bound. Our privatization of prisons has made it the most lucrative business in our country second only to owning a bank. Well paying jobs are going to those who can afford to go deeply into debt through higher education aka college degrees.
If this is 'America, Land of the free' maybe we need to rephrase that to be what it actually is, 'land of the white'.
Unless we learn to respect each other for what we are and not for the color of our skin or our country of origin, we are doomed to never enjoy the sanctity of 'one nation...'. Letting ALEC write state laws giving gun control to anyone with the money to purchase one or allowing anyone to use 'deadly force' when that was always restricted to those who were sworn to uphold the law (police) is undermining the safety and security that we once enjoyed or should definitely try to achieve.
I stand with every American that is in the streets demanding that we rethink our humanity and our society. Second class citizens are not what our founding fathers had in mind even though they owned slaves themselves. Don't you think it's time we joined the 21st century and got over the civil war? It's been over a 150 years. What ever you think about the win or lose outcome of that war, we are one people, one country, and to some that repeat the pledge of allegiance 'one nation under God'. Start acting like it.
There appears to be a lack of respect by some for the community in which we all live. The minorities have learned early on they don't count. They are a social liability and will always be just that. The jobs many are given are of the lowest on the pay scale, promotion is arbitrary, health care is subsidized by the state proving once again they are unable to support themselves and marginalized as 'children'.
Florida has put a target on the back of every young black male in America. SCOTUS has gutted the Voting Rights Act because there is no reason for it anymore since we elected a black man to the position of president. If that was true why are the Republican legislatures across the country introducing voting restrictions such as picture ID, gerrymandering to limit minority power to elect their 'kind' to office? They are using their power to limit the number of voting machines available in minority communities so that every voter that wishes to exercise his/her right to vote must stand in line for hours.
The 'minority' schools across the nation are sub par or are being eliminated completely so people are forced to travel great distances to the next available school. The program is 'school to prison'. Maybe a few weeks working a minimum wage job but ultimately, they will be prison bound. Our privatization of prisons has made it the most lucrative business in our country second only to owning a bank. Well paying jobs are going to those who can afford to go deeply into debt through higher education aka college degrees.
If this is 'America, Land of the free' maybe we need to rephrase that to be what it actually is, 'land of the white'.
Unless we learn to respect each other for what we are and not for the color of our skin or our country of origin, we are doomed to never enjoy the sanctity of 'one nation...'. Letting ALEC write state laws giving gun control to anyone with the money to purchase one or allowing anyone to use 'deadly force' when that was always restricted to those who were sworn to uphold the law (police) is undermining the safety and security that we once enjoyed or should definitely try to achieve.
I stand with every American that is in the streets demanding that we rethink our humanity and our society. Second class citizens are not what our founding fathers had in mind even though they owned slaves themselves. Don't you think it's time we joined the 21st century and got over the civil war? It's been over a 150 years. What ever you think about the win or lose outcome of that war, we are one people, one country, and to some that repeat the pledge of allegiance 'one nation under God'. Start acting like it.
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