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RE- POST Originally posted on May 5, 2010
First they passed a law in the name of immigration reform allowing police to legally harass you for being brown. Now non-white groups lost their right to learn about their history and culture in public schools. I am sure the liberal arts will be next.
CNN Conversation on Arizona's ethnic studies law (Basically two pundits blasting each other)
So many are making a poison in our country. This poison pits cultures, races, beliefs, religions, art and educational systems against each other. This poison of divisiveness is tearing a hole in our country.
I was too young to develop memories of the turmoil of the 60's and 70's. My only memories are vague unease and stronger memories of the malaise President Carter commented about. Maybe it is time for another cultural revolution. I fear though it may not be a peaceful one.
As I wrote on April 16th:
I look to the four compass points
and am starting to see
the division lines for battles
scratched in varying grounds.
Some are for ideals
some are for religion
some are for freedom for some
some are for closing others in
We are heading to our own chosen lines
we scratch with a sharp, jagged stick
to stand behind and look across to the adversary
then slowly turn our backs to
so we no longer acknowledge
they may be more like us than not.
We are overdue for a revolution, Karl. The country elected a president with a mandate to get out of Iraq and for equity and fairness under the law for all our citizens, among other things. That mandate itself was a peaceful revolution. What happened? We are on a backward slide. I was around for the revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, and I wonder all the time what happened to the progress we made. I hear that our young generation, The Millennials, is looking to people my age to tell them how to do it. So few of us have retained our fighting spirit and idealism. The only organized social movement is The Tea Party. Maybe that's the revolution of our time, god help us!
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