Hi Miriam and all,
Michael Moore is on to something here. Could this be the first real
stirrings of the major change America has to go through as we turn our
current day to day lives into ones that really celebrate the principles upon
which our nation was founded. There is much we have to do as Michael points
out, but it is possible for us to do it. The questions are, will we, and
when?
Charlie Crawford.
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Subject: [blind-democracy] It Is a New America, but It Is Not a Free America
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Moore writes: "It was one of those weeks, this past week. A week in which we
witnessed profound history being made. A week when a large chunk was taken
out of the wall of hate that criss-crosses this country, a nation founded on
genocide and built on the backs of slaves."
Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore. (photo: Dog Eat Dog Films)
It Is a New America, but It Is Not a Free America - Yet
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
30 June 15
It was one of those weeks, this past week. A week in which we witnessed
profound history being made. A week when a large chunk was taken out of the
wall of hate that criss-crosses this country, a nation founded on genocide
and built on the backs of slaves. A people who pride themselves on being
ignorant, and thus are easily manipulated with fear by those in power. We
know the routine, we've tallied up the score.
But now.
There is massive change in the air. While angry white men stew and wonder
what happened to their roost, the young, the women, the working poor, the
people of color have forged an intense political bond. Having raised their
voices higher, having suddenly been filled more with a sense of hope than
one of despair, this alliance is now poised to catapult further. Even in a
month of unspeakable tragedy in the birthplace of the Civil War, the race
war that one young man who was inspired by the politics of hate had hoped to
ignite saw his sick dream backfire into a (nonviolent) war against racists.
Blacks and whites have held hands in Charleston. Wal-mart and NASCAR have
eliminated the Confederate flag. Two Republicans on the Supreme Court have
voted to support the vision of the black man who lives in a white house down
the street. That wall of hate, devoid of any healthy foundation, has begun
to crumble. It's a new America that is fighting its way out of the cocoon.
On Thursday the Census Bureau announced that, for the first time ever, there
are more millennials than baby boomers in the Untied States -- and, for the
first time, there are now more children under 5 who are of color than those
who are white. The paradigm has shifted; all we had to do was stay active,
stay engaged, refrain from hate and then watch the decrepit right-wing
ideology wither and fall off its mysoginist, homophobic, white-privileged
vine. It is a New America, but it is not a free America - yet. Free of
corporate control, free of Citizens United, free of income inequality, free
of an ongoing environmental catastrophe, free of Jeb Bush, free of
profit-making health insurance companies, free of a privatized prison
system, free of a failed war on drugs, free of the scourge of capitalism.
No, we're not free yet. But it's the closest we've ever been.
I'm ready for Week Two. How 'bout you? What else can we make happen before
America's 239th birthday this coming Saturday?
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Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore. (photo: Dog Eat Dog Films)
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.com/mmflint/posts/10152883409916857
It Is a New America, but It Is Not a Free America - Yet
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
30 June 15
t was one of those weeks, this past week. A week in which we witnessed
profound history being made. A week when a large chunk was taken out of the
wall of hate that criss-crosses this country, a nation founded on genocide
and built on the backs of slaves. A people who pride themselves on being
ignorant, and thus are easily manipulated with fear by those in power. We
know the routine, we've tallied up the score.
But now.
There is massive change in the air. While angry white men stew and wonder
what happened to their roost, the young, the women, the working poor, the
people of color have forged an intense political bond. Having raised their
voices higher, having suddenly been filled more with a sense of hope than
one of despair, this alliance is now poised to catapult further. Even in a
month of unspeakable tragedy in the birthplace of the Civil War, the race
war that one young man who was inspired by the politics of hate had hoped to
ignite saw his sick dream backfire into a (nonviolent) war against racists.
Blacks and whites have held hands in Charleston. Wal-mart and NASCAR have
eliminated the Confederate flag. Two Republicans on the Supreme Court have
voted to support the vision of the black man who lives in a white house down
the street. That wall of hate, devoid of any healthy foundation, has begun
to crumble. It's a new America that is fighting its way out of the cocoon.
On Thursday the Census Bureau announced that, for the first time ever, there
are more millennials than baby boomers in the Untied States -- and, for the
first time, there are now more children under 5 who are of color than those
who are white. The paradigm has shifted; all we had to do was stay active,
stay engaged, refrain from hate and then watch the decrepit right-wing
ideology wither and fall off its mysoginist, homophobic, white-privileged
vine. It is a New America, but it is not a free America - yet. Free of
corporate control, free of Citizens United, free of income inequality, free
of an ongoing environmental catastrophe, free of Jeb Bush, free of
profit-making health insurance companies, free of a privatized prison
system, free of a failed war on drugs, free of the scourge of capitalism.
No, we're not free yet. But it's the closest we've ever been.
I'm ready for Week Two. How 'bout you? What else can we make happen before
America's 239th birthday this coming Saturday?
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