Still Offended.

Today in Oklahoma, a National Fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon had it's chapter closed because the members got busted in their racism. Good for OU. 

Fifty years into the Civil Rights act of 1964 people still spit with vengeance the word nigger, people still see color, people are still afraid of people, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red, Olive.  He's a different color, he must be different.  She must be a threat because she's different.  He has a funny name, he must be a Muslim, and therefore a terrorist.  She believes in science and must be a heretic.  She's a Lesbian, he's gay, that one is transgender they're all going to burn in hell because they offend another person's religious views.  I read it on the internet, vaccines cause autism, Global climate change is a myth, we're just going through a minor climatological adjustment, mankind had nothing to do with it.   Self-proclaimed food experts with no qualifications are fear-mongering in order to sell books.   I get all my news from Fox news, Rush Limbaugh is the greatest voice of the people.

Today, America looks less like the 21st century and more like the 18th.  I grow ever more weary of the country I volunteered to defend.  I'm tired of 13 years of war, perpetrated by mythical weapons of mass destruction.  I'm tired of the hate, the greed, the ignorance.

I know I am privileged, I'm a Caucasian male in his mid-fifties.

I truly hope we can right this ship and become America the Beautiful again.  We (the collective WE) need to get our shit together.  We, again in the Collective, are all in the same proverbial boat.  We will all sink or swim together.  Many predictions put Caucasian adults as a minority in America by 2043. Many in "white" America are afraid of that.  We should be.  The Northern European Whites conquered the aboriginal and indigenous people of the Americas, enslaved the peoples of Africa, persecuted other white Northern Europeans who came to these shores later. Forced the Chinese into indentured servitude/slavery. Imprisoned Japanese-Americans because they were "a Threat".   Burned mosques, churches and synagogues all in the name of religion and religious intolerance.  Lynched for color, killed for sexuality,

High and low points can be measured in one word:
Tuskegee.

The Tuskegee Airmen,
and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

I hope that when the dust settles, the new majorities do a better job of running this Country than mine has...