Truth or Dare? Dare I Tell My Truth?
I was thinking about the many families, individuals, who were fired from their jobs recently, with no warning, and thus no ability to search for other employment prior to losing their health care and way of making a living.
It would seem so easy to do this to other people, if you were someone who was financially secure. You have nothing to lose and claim we all have something to gain by this…oh, except for all the people fired without warning.
I think, what also shocks me, is that I have family who think the current administration is doing “what needs to be done.” Again, easy to say when your family will not suffer one bit.
I am including a link of a film made in 1947 by the Defense Department of The United States. Tell me the rhetoric doesn’t sound like something from today’s people in power.
And, it is going to be in the ‘50’s tomorrow. The sun will shine, and I will have the opportunity to revel in the changing of the seasons. But, you see, I’m not losing my job. I’m not losing my health care.
And as I sit in the sun, I imagine more tears will fall as I see the progress we have made as a society go backward to a time when “The Majority Race” (important to note, that the original Majority people of this land were forcefully removed, massacred and all in the name of “Freedom.”) was the only race with opportunities.
Mom once said, “It is easy to look down on people in poverty when you have always been on top. Always remember, that you are above or below no one.”
Oh, but wait, what if a $5,000 check is floated my way as a “gift” from the government? I don’t want your damn gift. Do I need it? Hell, yeah I do! I am not financially secure. And I am also someone who knows when someone is standing on a pile of bullshit and doling it out like a king.
Here is the link for the Anti-Facist short. Drop me a line. You can disagree with me, and know that I will respond. You can agree with me and know that I will respond. Thank you for reading my piece today.
Your mom was a great woman, Mary, and so are you. Like mother, like daughter.
Everything that's currently happening in our government makes me feel physically ill. I don't understand how people can't see it for what it is!