While all life on earth is one village too neglected, neither life nor global issues are solved by oversimplification. Thus, neither should our students, educators or beliefs be formed by only one POV. Indeed, whether North or Southern sympathizer, enslaved or Reich Master Race, we were all connected even before NSA wiretapping.
Whether espousing Exceptionalism, seeking military superiority or disinfecting our elections from Supreme Koch head Citizens United, we'll need to read more than 140 characters to resurrect from the chaotic disconnect in the wake of a president who couldn't chew a pretzel and drink beer at the same time he was making the world safe for Oil environmental polluters.
Smart devices and TV remotes need replace Monday morning quarterbacking with in depth research and objective investigative reporting -- and those insisting America's a Shining City on a Hill need recall, its beacon light is a guide to equality and freedom for all. Then, cease and desist referring to our tanner half as Welfare Queens, peacefully dismantle the terrorism of our militarized police state and end private prisons for profit over population achieved by Stop and Frisk and Driving While Black.
After enslavement economy & Wall Street meltdown, war profiteering fear mongering and the violence of hate crimes against Native Americans, women, minorities and children, we may still recover the loss of their human resources, by not choosing the self-righteous, but rather the Do the Right Thing, love canal.
Make 2014 elections hold this truth to be self-evident: whether we trace our roots to Jesus or Mohammed, Andrew Indian Removal Act Jackson or Chief Little John Ross, Lincoln or Booth, Teddy Roosevelt or Booker T. Washington, The anti-Fossil Fuels Rockefeller Brothers Fund or Halliburton's BP, attention must be paid to solutions for:
Depletion of our planet's natural resources,
Ebola
Abduction, Rape, Murder
Spousal abuse
Raising minimum wage
Ratification of ERA
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