Over the
past 71 years of my otherwise happy life I have been witness to some of the
most terrifying abuses of human life. Black lives do matter. All lives matter.
The
holocaust and the survivors were a major part of my upbringing and I have lived
with that and learned from that. Then I was subjected to the vision of hatred
expressed by the southern states against black Americans.
It was the
ugliest times in America.
Blacks being
murdered simply because they stood up for themselves or for their fellow black
American. Yes America they are American. Many died fighting in World War ii as
well as in the Civil War. They fought for your freedom but more than that they
fought for theirs. All they wanted was to be recognized. Yes America they want
to be recognized for who they are…. Americans.
It offends
me when I have to identify an American by the colour of his/her skin, by their country
of origin or by their religion. Why do you insist on doing that America?
I know. It
is your subliminal way of separating your new citizens from the “white folk”
who think they are superior. The likes of the KKK and Donald Trump who promote
inferiority rather than unity, “One Nation Under God” is a hypocritical mantra
of the Republican Hate Army.
Forget gun
control you are lost, self aggrandizing and living in fear, yes fear America.
You fear your own government because the corporate world, the NRA and the
Republicans have convinced you there is a conspiracy. You fear your neighbor. You
self aggrandize when you tell yourself America is the greatest country in the
World.
You had to
be dragged into WWII kicking and screaming yet after it ended you spent
millions making movies, changing history to make yourself heroes and to
aggrandize America in the eyes of its own people.
Responding
to force with greater force is wrong and it only escalates into more violence.
Wake up
America it is time for reconciliation and acceptance.
Bob Hawkins
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