The sad part is that Charlie Kirk and his ilk have always been a part of the landscape of this country. Hate and intolerance of the “other” is as American as apple pie. It is appealing to so many due to fear (of unknown or of some kind of loss…economic or social status) and plain ignorance and want of “control.” But for Native Americans (First Nations in Canada) we are all immigrants or descendants thereof. Some came because of tyranny at home. Some were forcibly brought here. Others came for opportunity they otherwise would not have. By the end of the Civil War, all came because of an ideal, albeit imperfectly implemented, embedded in the Constitution. To paraphrase from a soliloquy from the movie Gettysburg, “To be judged as who I am. Not who my father or my father’s father was”
Beautifully expressed, Paul and thank you. Somehow, your writing triggered a remembrance of an old Eagles song, slightly melancholy but also painfully true. It is called, "The Last Resort." America must reacquaint itself with our constitution, the intentions of our founders and what is simply means, "to do unto others."
The sad part is that Charlie Kirk and his ilk have always been a part of the landscape of this country. Hate and intolerance of the “other” is as American as apple pie. It is appealing to so many due to fear (of unknown or of some kind of loss…economic or social status) and plain ignorance and want of “control.” But for Native Americans (First Nations in Canada) we are all immigrants or descendants thereof. Some came because of tyranny at home. Some were forcibly brought here. Others came for opportunity they otherwise would not have. By the end of the Civil War, all came because of an ideal, albeit imperfectly implemented, embedded in the Constitution. To paraphrase from a soliloquy from the movie Gettysburg, “To be judged as who I am. Not who my father or my father’s father was”
Beautifully expressed, Paul and thank you. Somehow, your writing triggered a remembrance of an old Eagles song, slightly melancholy but also painfully true. It is called, "The Last Resort." America must reacquaint itself with our constitution, the intentions of our founders and what is simply means, "to do unto others."
Bravo Paul
The Last Resort may be the best song on Hotel California, “call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”. I can hear Don Henley even now.