I've been working through this idea of "Me, The People," and keep coming back to this. I"m sure someone has written something similar, but, this is what has stuck in my head for the past couple of days, while I'm at the U.S.H.R. Network's national conference in Chicago. It's given me a sense of hope, seeing over 400 people come together to overcome the domestic human rights violations found here in the U.S. Let's hope that our efforts can put to rest this pledge that I hear each time I'm confronted with opposition rhetoric that ignores the rights and dignities of others.
"I pledge Me-legiance"
I pledge me-legiance to me,
the United States of Me,
and to the mepublic, for which I stand,
one of me, Thank God,
individual, with liberty and justice for me.
It's a shame, but when I listen to AM radio, which travels far out here in the Midwest, that's all I seem to hear. Prosperity and opportunity are seen as individual privileges. They'll tell you that everyone can have these things, if they just pick themselves up by their boot straps. But, they ignore the fact that most Americans don't have boots. Tens of millions don't even have healthcare, or a standard of living that affords them the opportunities that these almost all white older men have had their whole lives.
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