Here is an exert from a talk given to Teachers by the writer James Baldwin, I couldn’t but help think of the situation in Palestine when I read it. I don’t think the World has moved much since 1963 , or has it indeed gone backwards?
“It is inconceivable that a sovereign people should continue, as we do so abjectly, to say, “I can’t do anything about it. It’s the government.” The government is the creation of the people. It is responsible to the people. And the people are responsible for it. No American has the right to allow the present government to say, when Negro children are being bombed and hosed and shot and beaten all over the Deep South, that there is nothing we can do about it. There must have been a day in this country’s life when the bombing of the children in Sunday School would have created a public uproar and endangered the life of a Governor Wallace. It happened here and there was no public uproar.”
James Baldwin 1963
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The trouble is, we have gone backwards at this point. Government has been totally bought and paid for by special interests. The media now tows the line for one of the two parties (depending upon network) due to a combination of fear of losing access and (more importantly) being owned by the same mega-corporations buying off the politicians. They play the citizenry off against each other to distract from their dirty deeds, and we can’t even get to the truth anymore.
And yes, I worry about civil rights for minorities as well with the path the country is on.
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Thank you for your comment, you have made me think about the losing access element. This could almost be a new blog. Should we fear not having access to the currently associated Information Moguls like Microsoft ( who seem to want to do everything) and other than making money and have an exclusive , jet setting lifestyle . Perhaps we go smaller, perhaps we look how we get to the nuggets. Sometimes I feel disheartened, at other times I feel I am a mouse who could turn into a Lion. The turds have risen to the top, but I’m quite good at cleaning them up.
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