Catching Up…

For those of you who might consider yourself regular readers, you might have noticed a certain amount of slack left in my coverage of the ins and outs of daily political events. I apologize, I work usually, 12 hour days, which cuts in on more leisurely activities. So here’s to holiday games of catch up.

To fire things up, I’ll start with a new video…

There was a lot of extollation surrounding the election of a black man, which regular readers will note I, for the most part did not take part in. I am a supporter, it is true, and I’m not one to miss the historical nature of the event (Though readers should note the difference in its definition to the millennial generation; even the Rodney King riots are only a faint memory to my mind. We’re more than aware of racial intolerance, but its tone has been different). The election has significance abounds to be sure but even when the sun rises high in the morning, it deeply sets the shadows and illuminates further the depth of our inequities.

One of those inequities is to imagine that here, at the turn of an election of a black man, that we have come to an end to the need to fight for civil rights. What is clear is that in this day and age there are people who feel that the weight of law can turn against a man or a woman and deny them the rights that government has granted to the rest of humanity. They feel as if this belief can cotton to the phrase, “all men are created equal.”

The crisis that the disillusioned have come to is that the being created equal means that equality in creation means equality in desires and not in rights. These same people are often those who tell us that government has no rights over the action of creation; either about rights to life, or stem cells or the like. Yet they deny that God has made diversity.

It’s not a belief that can be rationed logically, or accepted.

Yet, onward and upward.

-Marc-