Yesterday I read a blog post written by an older gentleman. Unfortunately I erased it by accident, so I can't mention the blog. Sorry about that. Anyway, he wrote about the problems on college campuses. He was upset by the unrest. He often talks about the old days and how good they were. People were nice and things were good where he came from.
After reading his latest post I thought, this guy lives in a completely different America than I do.
The America I know was never nice. The America I know was founded on the death of Native Americans. Founded on white male dominance, kidnapping, the selling of those who were kidnapped and enslaved, not even considered human, murdered freely, the females raped, and poverty, violence, lynchings, never ending toil and abuse was all they would ever know. That's what this country was built on by the white MEN who should never have been able to get away with it in the first place. The so called "founding fathers."
People were SO brutalized that they were not ALLOWED to be taught to read or write. Children were taken from their families and SOLD TO OTHER WHITE MEN, as slaves which were handed down to others through wills. THAT was AMERICA I was told I lived in. And racism continues to this very moment.
And by the way, females were not allowed to go to college, period. They weren't allowed to do much util they fought back, were put in prison, beaten, dragged through the street by their hair, just because they had the nerve to want the right to vote. We still don't make the same amount of men do for the same job. Equality does not exist for women. But we are expected to be grateful for what we are given and not talk about what is taken away.
Women had no rights and are still, to this very day, fighting to have the right to own THEIR OWN BODIES. Now the republicans want to take away birth control. Women and minorities have NO voice. None at all. It's a joke to believe that they do. They can speak but it won't change anything.
Some, in the south, believe that the Civil War still isn't over.
How about the National Guard killing unarmed, innocent students, as they walked on campus at Kent State. The leader of the guard telling a teacher, you better get those kids out of here because we are going to start shooting them. The National Guard KILLING INNOCENT STUDENTS AND READY TO KILL MORE.
How about Mayor Daley setting the Chicago police on peaceful protesters outside the Democratic Convention. Beating them with clubs and causing untold damage.
How about Viet Nam. A government too ashamed to admit the war was over, letting all those men DIE, because of their white male pride and political careers.
How about the burning of witches in Salem.
How about a government that lies to the people, encourages violence and infiltrates campus groups, as well as most groups, TO START TROUBLE, and watch what citizens are doing. Remember the placing of bricks, etc., in front of shops put there so the planted paid stooges working for the government, would have what they needed to start a riot. It was ANOTHER set up.
How about a government that can arrest you at a peaceful protest, pick you off the street without informing you of your rights, or telling you who they are, and just take you away. Yes, there are videos.
How about having a police force that is wearing military grade equipment in the street at peaceful protests, as if they are at WAR with other Americans, they are sworn TO PROTECT, while letting the republican politicians who attacked their own government WALK AWAY WITH NO PUNISHMENT AT ALL.
How about the fact that women are afraid to go out at night. Women who sleep with windows closed because they are afraid to open them. Who go places with others, for safety, including bathrooms. Who are attacked EVERYWHERE, in buildings, parking lots, elevators, EVERYWHERE.
This is a VIOLENT country that we seem to overlook, or are helpless to change.
How about the fact that America has a terrible live birth rate.
How about the fact that rape on campus is rampant and underreported to keep the reputation of colleges in tact, and KEEP money for sports programs coming in. This is a more important issue that the unrest that's taking place on campus right now, as far as I'm concerned, but people just seem to ignore it for the flashy news stories, and it's happening to women, so no big deal.
How about the fact that education in America is so bad that high school graduates can't read or write. And schools were made not to teach children to think for themselves but to work in factories and slowly die for the rich.
How about America charging outrageous prices for drugs that are free or inexpensive in other countries. People DIE because of this.
How about trump and his followers.
How about when trump let a kid die in a cage, after children were TAKEN FROM THEIR immigrant PARENTS. Okay, this is why I love Chicago. When the orange one was TAKING CHILDREN FROM THEIR HOMES, our mayor said, it wasn't going to happen here. trump said he would send in troops. Our mayor said, they're already here. No one was taken from Chicago, but the fear kept children home from school. Therapists had to be called in to work with the terrified children. And again, children from different places were put INTO CAGES. At least one child died and even now, some children have not been reunited with their parents. Bigger problem than unrest on campus exist.
How about health care for some, but not for others.
Well, this list could go on and on and on. The point is, the man who wrote the post is upset about the unrest on campus over the Israel/Palestine war. I want to tell him that there are BIGGER problems in this country. Campus unrest is a distraction. Remember in the south when integration began and little girls and children had to be protected by men with guns for just going to school? Remember THAT AMERICA. That America is still here.
I think we need to be upset with the GOVERNMENT and the LIES and the high cost of living and the fact that many people feel RIPPED OFF and again, the lies and the lies and the lies. And the never ending WARS and the GREED and the hopelessness many feel and the homeless, and the drug abuse and the high suicide rate and the DEATH OF THE FREE PRESS and people dropping out, and tent cities popping up around the country and the fear they are generating, and on and on and on. THE BELIEF IN SCARCITY RATHER THAN ABUNDANCE. We HAVE abundance but are forced to live with the idea of scarcity by a government who pits us against each other and tells us scarcity is all we have, as they take more and more from the people. More LIES. More hatred.
I think all of this is unnecessary and pathetic. GREED and LIES, the inability to have a government that works FOR the people, instead of for ITSELF is destroying this country and still white men are in charge and the destruction continues. They have even turned to killing Nature.
I hope, at the very end, it's just two white idiot men in suits fighting to the death, with no one to put between themselves to die in their stead. I imagine them swatting at each other like tiny children, afraid of getting hurt, after sending millions to die.
And they are afraid. Afraid that one day, people will say, THAT'S ENOUGH and then where will they hide?
Hatred, division (to make sure people don't work together), and violence are all encouraged and allowed, to make sure we the people have no power. Imagine what we could do if we did work together. But we don't and we won't, as long as the government and those in charge benefit from people hating each other. And THEY DO. They get away with murder while people go to bed hungry.
It doesn't matter that the students on campus don't understand the issues (the blogger didn't think they did). It does't matter that they just blindly do whatever they are doing, harassing other students, talking this or that...and the reason it doesn't matter is because that is a prime example of our entire country and government. NO ONE knows what's going on because the free press is dead and everything is propaganda and lies. So if you watch the news you're being spoon fed what the men in charge want you to believe. The students will do what students do. People will suffer, be unhappy, while it lasts, until the next big distraction masks all of the above issues that NEVER CHANGE and have become systemic to this country, continue fester.
The horrors that are put upon people every single day, because of their color, their gender, their age, ethnicity, sexual preference, or economic means, is by far and away more deadly and hateful, than anything that's happening on campuses today. And the dumbest thing of all...people just want to live their lives. No one really wants all this drama and hatred, but when your culture loves spreading hatred, when violence is rewarded and the government SETS THE EXAMPLE of loving violence...this is what you get.
We are way too divided to dig ourselves out of whatever hole we let ourselves be dropped into. At least at the moment. It's as if the country is on fire and everyone is working to put the fire nearest to them out, so everything continues to burn because there aren't enough people doing one thing, to make it stop. Divided we fall. We are divided.
I have no answers. None at all.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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