Enough is Enough! Part III

I have said a lot the last few days but the key to American politics, is understanding that we are all human and we all make mistakes. However when we go vote, we must hold our politicians accountable. We can't just go vote and expect our politicians to be perfect. We must make sure our politicians are making decisions that help mankind. We can't continue to allow our politicians to make decisions that harm one group of people. Decisions need to be made that bring equal rights and equality to all of society.

Therefore we as Americans and as human beings must be able to lean on one another for support. The sick and needy won't be healed or uplifted by just a pass of a new bill but solutions to those problems and making sure that the law of the land is enacted depends on us. We must make sure that people aren't breaking the laws of this land. We must make sure that our politicians are upholding the law and when they don't we must call them out. I don't care who it is or what party they are affiliated with, we must hold all our politicians accountable by leaning on our neighbors to help in our efforts to make sure our government is equal to the laws of the land. The rich shouldn't be exempt from the law. John Edwards has been campaigning about there are two Americans and he's right. There are two Americans and no person has to look any further than the Paris Hilton situation. Would a sheriff had let a poor person go home for a day because that poor person wasn't eating? Is this type of treatment that Paris Hilton is getting in jail, the same type of treatment that any regular middle class or poor person is getting in jail?

Now I remember years ago when Martha Stewart went to jail and how her jail resembled nothing like the jails that the regular prisoners are placed in. So Presidential candidate John Edwards is right when he speaks of two Americans and how divided we are as a country. When the poor is in need, what will the rest of us do to help them? When our children are left behind grade because they failed an standardized test when statistics show that must people aren't good test takers to begin with any way, so what do we do to address this problem? When a dying man or woman is turned away at the emergency room because he or she doesn't have health insurance, what do we do? I will tell you what we do, we lean on each other to change the laws of the land and to make sure that the laws of the land apply to all Americans--black, white, rich, poor, etc. We must make sure that the laws of the land are eqaul and fair and don't hinder one group from succeeding but insteads encourages all people to succeed. It doesn't matter, we as Americans must unite like we did for that brief moment after 9/11. We stood united as nation.

We didn't look at ourselves as African Americans, European Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Chinese Americans or Japanese Americans, etc. but we looked at each other as Americans, united against the face of danger. We looked at ourselves as Americans so why do we continue to divide each other instead of unite. When Barack Obama speaks of hope, he means the type of hope that will lead to action to make a difference in the lives of all of mankind. When Senator Clinton speaks of America being more diplomatic and peaceful, she means that each of us have to look inside of each other and put our pity differences to the side to look at the bigger picture, which is when there are dying people, mis-educated or uneducated people, and poor people, we must find solutions to those problems.

Now I know many of us say that the poor chose to be poor and the mis-educated or uneducated people chose to be that way. Well I say that is not the answer. No one chooses to be uneducated if the proper resources weren't given to them to begin with. For example, if I give you nothing but something to write with, paper, a textbook and no teacher when you were first born. Then will you know how to learn, how to write and how to teach yourself if I completely isolated you from the rest of civilization from the day you were born. Well I know that case sounds extreme but in some ways that is what is taking place in American society. Must places have teachers who only want to deal with the best behaved students while leaving the rest of the class behind and in some areas, students are only taught in school because their mother and father are not around to completely teach them everything else they need to know. So this results in students having to learn survival from their peers or others.

So that is when we as a community must start teaching our children. The school is just apart of the foundation of learning but we need to go back to the old days when we leaned on our neighbors to help us raise our child. Remember the old African proverb, "It takes a whole village to raise a child." Therefore if America is going to change than it has to take a whole village united as one to make sure equal rights and justice is preserved throughout the land. Its going to take all of us to make sure that America is no longer divided by race, creed, religion, economical status, sex or sexual perference, etc. So let's start holding our politicians accountable and let's start holding ourselves accountable in the process.

We must solve these problems now so as the 2008 election approaches think about this when you decide who has the best solutions and heart to deal with these problems.