I am willing to say it. American’s are the most hypocritical bunch. Maybe in the world. If we’re not, we are trying hard to beat out whoever is number one, and we won’t rest until that happens. Do you hear me, all of you Glenn Beck’s and Sarah Palin’s and Rush Limbough’s out there. All of you religious zealots. Anyone who feels that it is ok to separate us because of our skin, our sex, our religion, or desire to be intimate with another human needs to leave this country. That’s right, I said you leave. Not the people who wish to retain the rights set aside by the constitution and the fore fathers.
Let’s set aside the fact that America was founded by white men on the backs of slaves for the benefit of keeping all the money that would have been going to the Crown and the Church of England. Despite the sketchy beginnings, the fact that the words were written to say the following:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
How about our rights in the First Amendment:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
How is it in this day and age, after we have proven that the Earth is rotating a sun, and not the center of the universe; after we have proven the evolution takes place, no matter where the starting point was; that life may very well exist beyond our own planet; that we can still have shock and awe and issues with a black man as a president, women in the work place, or that another human can love another human because they are humans. A human can love a human because they are human. A person is complimented by another human and they feel safe and comforted by the other person. You’re telling me that we can establish in writing the fact that people are protected by law, but not protected by our actions as a nation?
A man is dead by suicide in New York, a Rutger’s University student, because two other students broadcast him having sex with another man on the internet without his knowledge or consent. If that had been a man with a woman, the roommate would have given him a high five, but instead he was humiliated publicly, and now he is dead because he felt that he had no where else to go in life but out. A thirteen year old boy hung himself in California because he was taunted for being gay. New York, one of the oldest states in American, the melting pot of all melting pots, the home of Ellis Island, the hub of all people coming to America for nearly two hundred years. Yet with all the history and diversity, there is still enough disregard and hate to send a man to his death. California, all I need to say to you is You Should Be Ashamed. When you’re thirteen and the only way out is death, you have failed as a state, a country, or any type of unified community.
What the hell is your problem, America? Are you too distracted by your TV and your desire to buy more shit that the welfare of our own people to feel safe and loved is too much of a burden?
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