JUNE 2008
A MOMENT OF SILENCE
along with a great deal of pride for America.
‘We’ve come a long way,baby’ has never rung so true.
Coming from the [FDR] –Roosevelt era 1933-1945 [the Great Depression years] nothing great about it, the death of Pres. Roosevelt brought to the oval office a much needed V.P. Harry S. Truman …living thru WW2 to the disgraceful McCarthy era, watching the bravery and resolve of Rosa Parks, and living the angst of every American who was sucked into the Viet Nam war…to the cultural education brought to light with the feminist movement - giving women the much needed boost to earn the same wages as their male counterparts.
To our great shame in allowing the KKK [white supremacist group] to exist.
There tucked under their asinine pointed white sheets, faces hidden for fear of being recognized…were raging, impotent, violent, ignorant, incestuous morons burning crosses and hanging blacks.
[btw-- they still exist in great numbers - most within the republican party hiding behind the flag]
Feeling the shock and awe of seeing great men like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King struck down in their prime.
We are at the top of our game today being allowed to choose either a woman or an African American to the white house.
God be praised for the enlightenment.
The twentieth century has opened the door to so many concepts,
but the operative words here are ‘opened the door’…things up for discussion include gay marriages, this is threatening to some people’s identity, but we are making head way there, the audacity of some frightened mindless individuals that would try to roll back Roe vs Wade, taking away a woman’s right to choose, the environment [ pros and cons of global warming,] our pitiful economy, so chaotic under the present administration that we are in danger of losing everything we value, people are losing their homes to foreclosures, GM is on the verge of firing thousands of people with their plans to convert their factories to producing smaller [hybrid] vehicles,
Americans are afraid to fill their back yard pools [water consumption],
take a much needed summer get away [cannot afford the gas],
most of us will not be turning on our a/c [electricity thru the roof]
and certainly last but never least…bringing home our troops from an ill conceived war.
Mr. Obama has his work cut out for him, I am sure this is what he means by AMERICA NEEDS CHANGE, on so many fronts.
So I personally thank you America for your growth during my lifetime. Kate
