The other night I was watching CNBC as a reporter interviewed a man from Oklahoma about the 9/12 March. It is bad enough that every one of these people, congressmen and senators included, are committing treason. They are stupidly proud of it. They wash over their hatred, bigotry, and violence with a veneer of “patriot”. One of my great- great - great etc grandfathers was in the Sons of Liberty, so I come by my rebelliousness honestly, and I also know what a real patriot is. It ain’t these guys.
My mouth literally dropped open when I heard this man tell the reporter that “everyone in this country has health insurance”. Oh really? Then why was my brother turned away from a hospital when they found out he was not insured? (This after suffering an electrical shock.) This idiot then went on to say “all you have to do is go to an emergency room and you will see all these people tying things up for hours because they have a stubbed toe.” From there he stated “They all get taken care of, so, see? Everyone has health insurance in this country.” The 9/12-ers actually believe this. That is frightening. It should alarm and anger everyone who hears it.
More people were interviewed. A woman raging about how this country is turning into a socialist and Marxist government. Her equally ill-informed husband spewing vitriol about how the government needs to stay out of our health insurance, how we do not need any government programs of any kind. And for this, they are marching on Washington. That is their right. But it is pathetic, since they do not know what they are talking about. If they had the facts straight, I wouldn’t be so disgusted.
But back to the man from Oklahoma. Maybe because the reporter was African-American, he let this next one drop: “We want the country to go back to the way it was 100 years ago.” Need I remind you that 100 years ago, there was segregation, discrimination of the sort that makes telling someone to sit at the back of the bus look like a child’s tea party by comparison? I remember the Freedom Riders, the killing of Medgar Evers, the classified sections in the paper categorized by sex, age, and race. As I said in a previous writing, going back to the way it was means no vote for women, housing discrimination, job discrimination, no social security, no Medicare. And it means no black president.
Why don’t they at least have the honesty to say what they really mean? The only thing separating these clowns from the KKK are the satin hoods. It makes me feel physically sick to hear them ranting and raving and hiding behind the mask of patriotism, when in fact, they are nothing more than red-neck bigots. How can this be happening in 2009? I thought we were better than that.
The majority of us are. I remember Election Night, and the chills I got watching all those people running through the field, joyously celebrating as history was being made. I get chills as I write this. My fiancé’ and I cried, we were so happy. Earlier that evening, my siblings and I had met at one brother’s house, to be there for each other. And we were not alone. Remember, please, how very many people voted for our President.
The 9/12-ers keep whooping and hollering about wanting “their country” back. Well, Jim-Bob, it’s my country, too! For too many years, those of us who wanted real change, who wanted our voices heard and not stifled, have had to sit on the sidelines. You wanna talk about trampling the Constitution? Let’s talk about George Bush and The Patriot Act. How come that never gets mentioned? How come the Supreme Court was allowed to pick the President when the election was stolen from Al Gore? Why didn’t you care then?
It’s my country, too. And the country of those of us who voted for Barack Obama. There are more of us than there are of you.
Change is inevitable, Jim-Bob. If a black president is too much for you to bear, then grow a pair and say so. Don’t hide behind the Constitution; don’t hide behind words like “patriot”. Admit what you are. And the next time you feel compelled to march on Washington, please get your facts straight. It only makes you look more idiotic and ignorant than you already are.
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