"Tis the season

Does my country need me? You bet, who else could discern a connection between a trip to Wal-Mart during this Christmas shopping season and the end of racial discrimination? Wonder of Wonders, aisles upon aisles of consumer goodies piled up in 1000's of feet of display space, colorful, appealing, priced reasonably and there for the taking. I am reminded of the signs in restaurants past, "good eats here," but with a modern take of ‘good stuff here’ (everywhere). Poverty in America has never been so invisible. Politicians who attempt to strip Christ from Christmas leaving only Santa Claus, the personification of gift-gifting, that is, consumerism, have their fondest wishes come true at Wal-Mart. Too bad destructive campaigns against the giant retailer originate from wrong-intentioned politicians. Good stuff is available to anyone with a credit card or cash to purchase it. Black or white, Hispanic or - as far as I can determine - the self-identified, bourgeois, marginal or elite. Freedom reigns. Yet...

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas in 2007 reminds us that , "After World War I, church burnings, beatings, and killings were a constant threat directed against immigrants and ethnic minorities as well as African Americans."

In 1952, the child Barbara Jordan, with a chip on her shoulder said, "There was nothing you
saw to indicate that a black person and a white person could be together on a friendly basis." In 1976 as an adult Barbara believed that no law was capable of compelling people to form a community (of races). "This we must do as individuals, " she said. Later in 1992, Democrat Congresswoman Jordan came full circle in her thinking, when she said that "separatism is not the American way."

Amen. You’ve come a long way baby. Take a trip to Fantasyland - Washington Court House in full holiday regalia. Inhale the atmosphere of progress. ‘Tis the season to rejoice. I’m for moving forward, not accepting fibs by liberals about two Americas and poverty in America. Think of Democrat Presidential candidate, John Edwards and his mythical land of the free and the home of the brave. Fibs by libs are a slow, intellectual death. Americans are smarter than to fall for fibs.