This is not a work related post but political. I just can not get this out of my head, and since this is my blog, I figured I could write whatever I wanted.
Yesterday, I read that the tea party founder asked Keith Ellison to be voted out for being a muslim! then he had the audacity to further clarify his views!
Whats more shocking is that Yahoo, CNN and all those big news channels don't see this as news! but; oh yes, Miley Cyrus's parents divorce is national news!
I mean I am not a very political person. Honest, I don't give a fig if your left or right wing! I just treat the other person how I want to be treated. RESPECTFULLY!
America is supposed to set an example for people around the world on how to behave and tackle issues, and this is the example we set?
America is supposed to be the land of the free. But what I have discovered is America is now the land of: the bigots, the racists, the liberals, the conservatives, the sexists, the industrialist, the socialist, the capitalist, the lazy, the ignorant, the extremists!
Wow!
This is off tangent but anyway, this year in California a girl was raped publicly. People actually watched, taped it, posted it on you tube, drank beers while watching and even called friends to come and watch!
Did anyone call 911? NOPE.
The above scenario (which is true) and the fact that no one has called out the founder of the tea part on his racist remarks makes it seem to me: that in America we are now deciding to watch and enjoy people get abused or victimized instead of trying to stop it.
So America is not the land of the brave and the free. It is the land of the sleazy and the conformists.
Shame on us! We used to be great and set an example and now, we are creating our own downfall much like we read about the great roman downfall.
We study and teach history in schools, colleges. But we still have not learnt from it.
And there is a saying by the old (who are supposed to wiser, and in this case I agree, that they were wiser) "Know History, for those who don't know it; often repeat it!" and we are repeating history, just not in a glorious American way.
America has never been the land of the free. It was the land of genocide (against Native Americans). And it was the land of slavery. And then it became the land of segregation... and the land of McCarthyism. And now it is the land of anti-Latino and anti-Muslim sentiment.
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