Something to think about. thanks mama

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" By Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, N.Y. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.===========

"No longer do we have to struggle to live, so what are we living for? We purposely create crazyadventureslike X-games and reality shows to feel that excitement that once was natural...It's an interesting circle - long ago, our people went through incredible events and adventures in order to survive - over time life became easier as we took control of the universe that once controlled us--and now that we don't have to fight, we choose to fight..... There are people dying out here. And whether they are "Iraqi" or "American", they are all our people..." ---A U.S. soldier serving in Iraq