It certainly is a weird time. In other nations like Brazil there seems to be an increase in democracy and freedoms. I know that in other nations where good things are happening they are happening because citizens did not give up and that helps keep me motivated. However, I do wonder who America really is. The reality is we have a pretty …
It certainly is a weird time. In other nations like Brazil there seems to be an increase in democracy and freedoms. I know that in other nations where good things are happening they are happening because citizens did not give up and that helps keep me motivated. However, I do wonder who America really is. The reality is we have a pretty cruel past from the beginning when we stole land from the Native Americans and put them basically in concentration camps eventually, and then the whole slavery, Jim Crow stuff, the horrible meanness shown to immigrants, from the Italians to the Irish to whoever the white men decided to not like at the moment (and even within our nation...in the 1930s California and maybe other states had laws that basically said No Okies Allowed to prevent American Citizens from moving from the dust bowl to California). And of course the Lousanna purchase and how we act like that has always been white man's land.... and let's not evet talk about keeping women as not even second class citizens. So from time to time I mostly as amazed at how, for many years in my life time, things were amazingly good in America. It's horrific that we have gone so far backwards is such a short time, but maybe during those years of greater equality and even greater compassion there have been enough folks that truly bought into those values that we will all band together and not just undo the trump/Republican party damage but even make a better nation. For sure I will not give into the GOPs plan to get me to just give up and I know you won't either. We just have to work together to get more and more folks to realize was can and will make a difference, but only if we do something, no matter how small it may seem.
It certainly is a weird time. In other nations like Brazil there seems to be an increase in democracy and freedoms. I know that in other nations where good things are happening they are happening because citizens did not give up and that helps keep me motivated. However, I do wonder who America really is. The reality is we have a pretty cruel past from the beginning when we stole land from the Native Americans and put them basically in concentration camps eventually, and then the whole slavery, Jim Crow stuff, the horrible meanness shown to immigrants, from the Italians to the Irish to whoever the white men decided to not like at the moment (and even within our nation...in the 1930s California and maybe other states had laws that basically said No Okies Allowed to prevent American Citizens from moving from the dust bowl to California). And of course the Lousanna purchase and how we act like that has always been white man's land.... and let's not evet talk about keeping women as not even second class citizens. So from time to time I mostly as amazed at how, for many years in my life time, things were amazingly good in America. It's horrific that we have gone so far backwards is such a short time, but maybe during those years of greater equality and even greater compassion there have been enough folks that truly bought into those values that we will all band together and not just undo the trump/Republican party damage but even make a better nation. For sure I will not give into the GOPs plan to get me to just give up and I know you won't either. We just have to work together to get more and more folks to realize was can and will make a difference, but only if we do something, no matter how small it may seem.