Maybe now 'murkan vanity will feel what its own victims have experienced for so long. Native First Nations folks number less than 2% of our current population. Some estimates put the genocide at more than 20 million across more than 200 years. Black African folks, kidnapped and herded like cattle onto small boats for weeks, only to be so…
Maybe now 'murkan vanity will feel what its own victims have experienced for so long. Native First Nations folks number less than 2% of our current population. Some estimates put the genocide at more than 20 million across more than 200 years. Black African folks, kidnapped and herded like cattle onto small boats for weeks, only to be sold off to lazy white landowners for unforgivable purposes - forced hard labor, beatings, torture, rapes, murders, housing befitting farm animals, constant verbal and physical and psychological denigration. Asians, Mexicans, Meso-Americans, Irish, Italians, all manipulated into subservient roles to build the illusion of the USA.
I could go on, but why? What goes around comes around. The innocent are swept up with the guilty, by the guilty who have no shame and no honor. Does this make what is occurring OK? Of course not, but the Thomm Hartmann avenue for communication is perhaps the most open, welcoming and available channel for ideas and observations and strategies out there today. And yet I view so few concerned 'murkans reading, calling in, or writing on several available venues.
Fear, intimidation, harassment, extortion, invasion of privacy, scapegoating and attacks against the most vulnerable are the methods of control Nazis use, then and now. Brownshirts, belligerent militias, trolls, bullies, gestapo-type enforcers, media attackers and misinformationists abound on the pathetically addictive 'social media' tropes that most 'murkans have capitulated into using as 'news.'
Are we actually a nation of callous sheep? Are we actually infested with treasonous fellow travelers? Are we essentially nothing more than barbarians in tricked out costumes and fancy vehicles? What do we most relish for consuming our time? Sports, guns, guns, guns, violence, fictional entertainment, glamour, real estate, posh food and a million cooking shows, belittling each other on ambush-laden gossip sites? Drugs, drugs, drugs. Lousy diets.
I am no fan of the NY Times, but the morning after the Nov.5 election, the headline read: 'This Is Who We Are.' If we indeed have souls, we should search them now, if we can even find them. You do not have to be locked inside an ICE cage to be a prisoner in your own life.
This is who we are: Three coal waste dams in West Virginia failed, killing 125 people and injuring 1,100 more in communities downstream of the dams., Google Buffalo Creek, Mine disaster, people who lived down stream, knew that the dam could break, it was an earthen dam, Everyday the men would get up, trudge to the coal mine, risking death, the same people today vote Trump and against Green energy factories and employment.
I just watched a report on a community that lives in Cancer Alley, that part that stretches from Baton Rouge to NOLA. This area contains 20 petroleum refining and chemical plants, built on what was once plantations.
Butted up against the fence are communities, that have suffered and will suffer premature deaths from cancer. virtually all families are affected, one woman lost all of her family to cancer. they can smell the noxious fumes when the weather and winds are just right, they permeate the clothes, the furniture and can't be aired out.
The families have lived there for generations, since reconstruction, and are proud defiant and are not going to leave, but the refineries and chemical plants are not going to leave either, regardless of legal action and TV exposure.
Thus they accept death by cancer or respiratory disease, in their defiance.
My fathers family settled Ashley County, AR and my great grandfather sold 160 acres to a carpet bagger name of E.S. Crossett, who build a saw mill and town on the property
After WWII, the company and the business and homes that it owned were sold off, and eventually bought by the Koch Brothers, and they built a pulp mill, paper plant - Georgia Paific.
It earned the reputation of Cancer Capital of the US. Most of my family moved, during WWII, to the western side of Cancer Alley, Port Neches, Texas, Those that stayed have all died of cancer, my aunt and 1st cousins, and I have or had a "passel" of send cousins in Crossett and every family has suffered cancer. And yet no one thinks of moving to a more healthy environment.
People choose to live in tornado alley, cancer alley, the cancer capital, hurricane central
in flood plains, on the San Andreas Juan de Fuca fault
This is who we are indeed, there was maybe one or two men on the Titanic willing to give up their seat on a lifeboat, and certainly no women.
Maybe now 'murkan vanity will feel what its own victims have experienced for so long. Native First Nations folks number less than 2% of our current population. Some estimates put the genocide at more than 20 million across more than 200 years. Black African folks, kidnapped and herded like cattle onto small boats for weeks, only to be sold off to lazy white landowners for unforgivable purposes - forced hard labor, beatings, torture, rapes, murders, housing befitting farm animals, constant verbal and physical and psychological denigration. Asians, Mexicans, Meso-Americans, Irish, Italians, all manipulated into subservient roles to build the illusion of the USA.
I could go on, but why? What goes around comes around. The innocent are swept up with the guilty, by the guilty who have no shame and no honor. Does this make what is occurring OK? Of course not, but the Thomm Hartmann avenue for communication is perhaps the most open, welcoming and available channel for ideas and observations and strategies out there today. And yet I view so few concerned 'murkans reading, calling in, or writing on several available venues.
Fear, intimidation, harassment, extortion, invasion of privacy, scapegoating and attacks against the most vulnerable are the methods of control Nazis use, then and now. Brownshirts, belligerent militias, trolls, bullies, gestapo-type enforcers, media attackers and misinformationists abound on the pathetically addictive 'social media' tropes that most 'murkans have capitulated into using as 'news.'
Are we actually a nation of callous sheep? Are we actually infested with treasonous fellow travelers? Are we essentially nothing more than barbarians in tricked out costumes and fancy vehicles? What do we most relish for consuming our time? Sports, guns, guns, guns, violence, fictional entertainment, glamour, real estate, posh food and a million cooking shows, belittling each other on ambush-laden gossip sites? Drugs, drugs, drugs. Lousy diets.
I am no fan of the NY Times, but the morning after the Nov.5 election, the headline read: 'This Is Who We Are.' If we indeed have souls, we should search them now, if we can even find them. You do not have to be locked inside an ICE cage to be a prisoner in your own life.
This is who we are: Three coal waste dams in West Virginia failed, killing 125 people and injuring 1,100 more in communities downstream of the dams., Google Buffalo Creek, Mine disaster, people who lived down stream, knew that the dam could break, it was an earthen dam, Everyday the men would get up, trudge to the coal mine, risking death, the same people today vote Trump and against Green energy factories and employment.
I just watched a report on a community that lives in Cancer Alley, that part that stretches from Baton Rouge to NOLA. This area contains 20 petroleum refining and chemical plants, built on what was once plantations.
Butted up against the fence are communities, that have suffered and will suffer premature deaths from cancer. virtually all families are affected, one woman lost all of her family to cancer. they can smell the noxious fumes when the weather and winds are just right, they permeate the clothes, the furniture and can't be aired out.
The families have lived there for generations, since reconstruction, and are proud defiant and are not going to leave, but the refineries and chemical plants are not going to leave either, regardless of legal action and TV exposure.
Thus they accept death by cancer or respiratory disease, in their defiance.
My fathers family settled Ashley County, AR and my great grandfather sold 160 acres to a carpet bagger name of E.S. Crossett, who build a saw mill and town on the property
After WWII, the company and the business and homes that it owned were sold off, and eventually bought by the Koch Brothers, and they built a pulp mill, paper plant - Georgia Paific.
It earned the reputation of Cancer Capital of the US. Most of my family moved, during WWII, to the western side of Cancer Alley, Port Neches, Texas, Those that stayed have all died of cancer, my aunt and 1st cousins, and I have or had a "passel" of send cousins in Crossett and every family has suffered cancer. And yet no one thinks of moving to a more healthy environment.
People choose to live in tornado alley, cancer alley, the cancer capital, hurricane central
in flood plains, on the San Andreas Juan de Fuca fault
This is who we are indeed, there was maybe one or two men on the Titanic willing to give up their seat on a lifeboat, and certainly no women.