I’ve seen a lot and I have seen that nothing has changed
I’ve seen the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties and nothing has changed.
I’ve have seen the sit-ins and the marches and nothing has changed.
I’ve seen blood on the streets of New Haven and nothing has changed
I’ve seen the uprising in Newark, Los Angles, and other cities around the country and nothing has changed.
I have heard the promises of politicians both Republicans and Democrats and nothing has changed.
I have heard the promises of police departments to change but nothing has changed.
There have been promises made, laws written by both parties but nothing has changed.
Trump has been appointing white judges by the hand full, as of January 85% of his appointments are white.
In education his Secretary of Education DeVos is cutting funding to public schools and giving the funding to private schools and religious schools.
His Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carson is doing everything he can to cut housing assistance for low income families.
The voters knew he was a racist but it didn’t matter to them, but they were mad that a black man was president.
A friend say if you hear mean, intervene.
We can pass all the laws but nothing will change until the people change.
Until the people stand up and say enough is enough.
It is amazing that so many people have stood up and marched to end the discrimination and for racial justice. It is also amazing how many are out there for the first time. But what will only count is how they vote on election day.
And the list goes on and on…
A trans man friend who has an excellent job and lives in suburbia told me that when “she” walked down the street she never got stopped by the police but once he transitioned “he” was routinely stopped and asked what he was doing in the neighborhood.
What can be done? I don’t know.
It has to come from the people… not just the minorities but all the people.
I read somewhere that most people make up their minds on who they are going to vote for minutes before voting.
There was a meme and video that was circulating around Facebook about how they knew about COVID-19 a year before the pandemic broke out. They claimed that H.R. 748 the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act was introduced in January of 2019 proving that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned or known about in advance.
But if they did any homework and researched it they would have found out that it was totally false.
It is quite common for bills to be introduced for one thing and changed to another thing that is all together different from the original bill (They do that to save time. The original that didn’t have enough steam to pass but made it through the committees is gutted and made into a new bill. The resurrected bill doesn’t have to go through the committee process.).
With freedom comes responsibility.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
And part of that responsibility is to educate yourself on the issues of the day and to make informed electorate.
I’ve seen the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties and nothing has changed.
I’ve have seen the sit-ins and the marches and nothing has changed.
I’ve seen blood on the streets of New Haven and nothing has changed
I’ve seen the uprising in Newark, Los Angles, and other cities around the country and nothing has changed.
I have heard the promises of politicians both Republicans and Democrats and nothing has changed.
I have heard the promises of police departments to change but nothing has changed.
There have been promises made, laws written by both parties but nothing has changed.
Trump has been appointing white judges by the hand full, as of January 85% of his appointments are white.
"What stands out to me is that President Trump is deliberately nominating the least diverse class of judicial nominees that we have seen in modern history," said Kristine Lucius, executive vice president for policy at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "It is stunning to me that 2 1/2 years in, he has not nominated a single African American or a single Latinx to the appellate courts."In Congress there are 54 Democrats and 2 Republicans who are minorities and one of the two Republicans is retiring.
NPR
In education his Secretary of Education DeVos is cutting funding to public schools and giving the funding to private schools and religious schools.
His Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Carson is doing everything he can to cut housing assistance for low income families.
The voters knew he was a racist but it didn’t matter to them, but they were mad that a black man was president.
A friend say if you hear mean, intervene.
We can pass all the laws but nothing will change until the people change.
Until the people stand up and say enough is enough.
It is amazing that so many people have stood up and marched to end the discrimination and for racial justice. It is also amazing how many are out there for the first time. But what will only count is how they vote on election day.
- It is not just racist police…
- It is also education inequalities.
- It is also income inequalities.
- It is also housing inequalities.
- It is also healthcare inequalities.
- It is also employment inequalities.
- It is also voting inequalities.
And the list goes on and on…
A trans man friend who has an excellent job and lives in suburbia told me that when “she” walked down the street she never got stopped by the police but once he transitioned “he” was routinely stopped and asked what he was doing in the neighborhood.
What can be done? I don’t know.
It has to come from the people… not just the minorities but all the people.
I read somewhere that most people make up their minds on who they are going to vote for minutes before voting.
There was a meme and video that was circulating around Facebook about how they knew about COVID-19 a year before the pandemic broke out. They claimed that H.R. 748 the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act was introduced in January of 2019 proving that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned or known about in advance.
But if they did any homework and researched it they would have found out that it was totally false.
It is quite common for bills to be introduced for one thing and changed to another thing that is all together different from the original bill (They do that to save time. The original that didn’t have enough steam to pass but made it through the committees is gutted and made into a new bill. The resurrected bill doesn’t have to go through the committee process.).
With freedom comes responsibility.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
And part of that responsibility is to educate yourself on the issues of the day and to make informed electorate.
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