To Keep From Crying In The Midst Of It All
Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying because the tears won't fix this problem. What problem? Several. Our country has been overtaken to an enormous degree by multinational corporations whose only loyalty is to the bottom line. It is destroying us from within, and even more so, since it also brought our latent racism and classism to the surface with the election of President Obama. And the boogyman is hard to pinpoint now. Right now, the people are taking to the streets in Egypt to say "enough is enough" against their 30 years-in-power leader. Bands of young men, understanding the boiling point of being fed up, have armed themselves with sticks to protect their respective neighborhoods, because when protest emotions get high, sometimes things happen, especially when those protests are because of years and years, generations of mistreatment. As I thought about our people, for all people who want a decent middle class living, the right to live, are my