America

Now the blame game begins…

Just remember…we had a candidate…in my heart… I know Bernie would have won.

I guess I’ll get a free ticket to Haiti.

The election proved that we are not a post-racial America… We are a white supremacy state…

White privilege… To admittingly rig an election process and still have the govt allow the process to continue

To be under investigation, whether any wrong doings were found, yet our govt still allows the person to run for president

To have sexual assault allegations and still be able to run for president

To run a campaign that is the complete opposite of the cultivation of equality (what this country is supposedly founded on) and still become a party nominated candidate

White privilege….There you have it.

Now… Let us do everything we are conditioned to do…blame every common folk for the results of this election.

One thing I do know is that….we know now approximately how many bigots, coons, & ignorant fools out there that are registered voters…. We also know that many people out there are done with the establishment…Now there is something new

I think we are at the start of…

Black Mirror

When Addiction Has a White Face - NYTimes.com →

It is hard to describe the bittersweet sting that many African-Americans feel witnessing this national embrace of addicts. It is heartening to see the eclipse of the generations-long failed war on drugs. But black Americans are also knowingly weary and embittered by the absence of such enlightened thinking when those in our own families were similarly wounded. When the face of addiction had dark skin, this nation’s police did not see sons and daughters, sister and brothers. They saw “brothas,” young thugs to be locked up, rather than “people with a purpose in life.”

A New American Revolution

This is taken from our Declaration of Independence

–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

Medicare/Medicaid is not a light or transient cause

Social Security is not a light or transient cause

Equality is not a light or transient cause

Troy Davis was not a light or transient cause

Aid for our veterans is not a light or transient cause

The economy is not a light or transient cause.

The middle class is not a light or transient cause

The poor and the homeless are not light or transient causes

HIV/AIDS is not a light transient cause.

Occupy Wall Street is not a light or transient cause

We may think we alter the government with our elections but we continue to be abused by those we give power to and those that rule over them (big corporations and the wealthiest 1-2%)

It’s time for a revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What do July 4th and Alice in Wonderland have in common? →

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by C. M. Rubin

July 4, 1776 is known as American Independence Day, the day that commemorates the adoption of America’s Declaration of Independence.  It is the day on which thirteen colonies from Maine to Georgia, (which today consist of Maine, Georgia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island) overcame many obstacles and finally declared their freedom from the Kingdom of Great Britain.  On this most beloved of national holidays, wherever you happen to be, you will see patriots participating in picnics, arts and crafts events, barbecues, carnivals, fireworks, parades, sporting events and many other public and private events as they celebrate the significance of this important day in the history of the United States.  

While some argue that July 4 is not in fact the actual day that the Declaration of Independence was signed, no one denies the bigger significance - 13 states declared themselves free.  Freedom at last from British rule.  Freedom to start anew.  Freedom to pursue life and happiness inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s eloquent words that the first all important step forward had been made.   Many years later, Jefferson wrote that the Declaration of Independence was “intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion.”  I also imagine the colonists thinking, much like Alice in Wonderland might have wondered in her time, “Which way from here?”  

July 4, 1862 is also known to many as Alice in Wonderland Day, the day that commemorates Lewis Carroll’s first telling of the famous children’s story to his young inspiration, Alice Liddell.  It is the day on which Carroll sent his child friend Alice down a rabbit hole in his far-fetched tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. During the course of her journey, Alice finds the courage to overcome the strange, often intimidating characters she meets in the kingdom of wonderland, realizing they are just ridiculous obstacles in her path. 

Some years ago, the Story Museum in Oxford, England created an annual event to celebrate the birthday of this most beloved of children’s stories either on July 4 or as close to the date.  If you happen to be in Oxford, England for what is called Alice’s Day, you will see Alice in Wonderland fans participating in picnics, arts and crafts events, barbecues, theater workshops and many other creative events as they celebrate the significance of this important date in the history of English literature.  While some argue that July 4 is not in fact the first time Carroll told the story to Alice Liddell, it is hard to deny the bigger significance of this day in her life.  Carroll created the story to free his heroine.  In an age when neither children nor educated young women had social rights, Carroll’s fantastical story provided the first all important clues to the way Alice might claim her freedom.  Many, many years later when the President of Columbia University publicly honored Alice Liddell with an honorary doctorate, acknowledging her as “the moving cause of this truly noteworthy contribution to English literature,”  I believe Alice had come to fully understand the meaning of freedom.  In her moving acceptance speech she remarked, “I love to  think, however unworthy I am, that Mr. Dodgson - Lewis Carroll — knows and rejoices with me now.”

And so, “Which way from here?” All that remains to be said is in the pictures and in this updated sentiment, originally expressed by the Virginia Gazette (with my thanks). ”Thus may the 4th of July, that glorious and ever memorable day, be celebrated through America and England, by the sons and daughters of freedom, from age to age till time shall be no more. Amen, and Amen.”

          Alice Liddell as the Beggar Maid and as distinguished honoree


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C.M. Rubin has more than two decades of professional experience in development, marketing, and art direction for a diverse range of media businesses.  She is also the author of three bestselling books, including  The Real Alice In Wonderland.