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"There's some kindof light at the end; Stoned, forgetful, and then; I'm drinking what used to be sin; And touching the edge of her skin;
And could you be the one that's not afraid; To look me in the eyes; I swear I would collapse; If I would tell how I think you fell; From the sky;
Yeah, my words they pour; Like children to the playground; Children to the playground; You make me smile."
So as I let my mind wander while I was in class the other day it wandered into the land of finding a solution to the problems we have amongst the American people. Now granted, I know there is no single solution, but what I have come up with may change things significantly. I think that we should do away with "classifying" ourselves. By this I mean do away with the "I'm a fill-in-the-blank American". No you're not. You're an American. Period. If you're a citizen of this country, you're a straight forward American. If there were no "races", how could we discriminate against certain races? There would be no need for the discriminatory legislation, such as Affirmative Action.
Now, I'm not saying someone shouldn't be proud of their heritage and not practice their traditions. Those are fine. But this constant political correctness as to the race of a person and putting people in different categories is causing a major problem in finding peace within our own country. How are we to preach peace and understanding to other countries when we ourselves cannot get along with each other and fight over petty things dealing with our race?
And this bullshit about needing to point out how you're certain race has struggled at some point in history and celebrating your triumph over the injustice put upon you by some very ignorant people is ridiculous. This country was founded on immigrants with the exception of the Native Americans. At some point, every classification of people have been discriminated against and treated badly. Before then we started participating in the African slave trades, England sent prisoners over here and forced them into labor developing the colonies as their sentence. We forced Native Americans off their lands they'd been living on for hundreds of years. Hell, we're still treating them badly and you don't see them marching in the streets everytime they get a chance. During the late 1800s early 1900s we treated the Chinese much like we treat Mexicans today saying that they're stealing our jobs and such that caused Congress to put a ban on Chinese immigration. During the Irish potato famine, many Irish came over here as indentured servants and had to live in horrible conditions and such too and were heavily discriminated against. During WWII Japanese were put in concentration-esc camps. And so on. I don't see us designating special months to appreciate these people's history. They're just a small blurb in the history books too along with history of blacks. So why is it that we have black history month and no other form of racial history month?
I think that the Census should do away with asking what gender and race a person is. All the Census is truely needed for is to determine the number of seats needed in the House of Representatives and nothing more. All the rest is just silly statistical stuff.
If you believe in classifying everyone into different races, then you better not refer to me as white or caucasian. You better call me an Anglo-Irish-French Canadian-Polish-Russian-German American.
Also, I'm sick of hearing all this bullshit about the presence of God in our government. Like it or not, this country was founded on religious principles. If saying "Under God" in the pledge bothers you that much, just don't say it. Honestly, is it really that hard? Why should those of us who do believe have to conform to those of you who do not? There's one word that describes the reason for saying those things and having those words printed on our money: tradition. And this tradition is really not hurting anyone, it's more of an annoyance to some who read the Constitution too literally. Division of Church and State was not meant to keep all religion out of the government. The founding fathers only meant that no single Church is to have power over the country. If they meant for there to be absolutely no religion in government, then the house and the senate meeting would not open and end in prayer.
Since this is so loaded, I'm gonna end it here. Trust me. There is more to come.
Feel free to comment, but do so in a mature manner. If you're just gonna yell and scream at me in a rude form, don't bother. I'll just delete it and block you. If you do so anonymously, then that says more about you then I can type here and I'll still delete it.
Thought of the Day
"Guns don't kill people. People kill people. I could just as easily kill someone with a baseball bat or my car, but I don't see the government telling me that I can't own either one." ~