icourtland!

i really just do not know what to think this morning. my eyes have been opened to something that i somehow in the last few years had managed to forget, or at the very least forced myself to look the other way.

the elections yesterday forced me to look, and gods help me i can not look away.

although i am saddened about the presidential race, there was one other fight that went on in 11 states that pulled something out of me that i had hoped was long gone. such a depth of feeling, a sense of loss that is hard to put into words and a lot of anger that i’m not sure what to do with.

Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah and Oregon have shown us that tolerence, understanding, love and repect for your fellow man ARE NOT American values as we have always been lead to believe. they have opened my eyes.

these states have proved to me that this country has becom LESS evolved over the last 250 years, and that the founding fathers were far more enlightened and respectful of what they were trying to create than the country we are now living in so many generations later. i had not until this time consciuosly noticed that bigotry, jealousy, disrespect and predjudice had become the new CORE American values. somehow i was blind to the fact that hate and stupidity have replaced the concept of tollerance and respect for your fellow human on a fundemental level in this country.

i guess i always knew, but isolated myself from this for most of my life. i just never really imagined that a people that counts itself as an elightened and modern culture, would find that discrimination is acceptable in any form. haven’t we fought this battle over and over again in this country’s history. are we once again going to go through American Indian, black slavery and right to vote and marry, women’s right to property and vote, the attempt at ERA? have these battles taught us nothing?

well the answer is, apparently, no – they have not.

so i guess we will have to teach that lesson all over again.

at least we know that the battle is ahead of us, that it is time to take up our arms ONCE AGAIN to fight for the basic human rights that the people who laid the ground work for this country intended for US ALL. i don’t know if this generation will make it, but one day it WILL happen.

see – i also opened my eyes to the hope of tomorrow.