barking mad
I can't decide which kind of mad it is...angry or just insane. I find myself thinking about how America has become a culture of division, fragmenting into ever smaller factions of us and them. Three years after 9/11 and the country is beginning to resemble a pack of religious extremists who hang a different face and nametag on God. We have a mob of people who are threatened by gays who want to marry (I'm one of them. I did it in Oregon.) People paste bumperstickers like "My God Reigns" on their cars. What is it, the Deity Smackdown? The Baddest Supreme Power wins?
Where is community -- not tolerance -- but a real sense that we're all in this together? Where is compassion -- not words of formalized and false regret -- but a genuine remorse at the cost of lives?
It's not here. It's not coming any time soon. Now what the hell do those of us in the Them column do?
posted by Karen McCray at
7:45 PM
|
0 comment(s):
Post a Comment
<< Home