What About Us: We believe the Country Can Represent a United States?
| posted by April ColeyWhat About Us: We believe the Country Can Represent a United States?
I have to say I continue to struggle with this question of who is taking care of the middle to upper middle class. While I certainly don't want to take anything from the lower class income base I simply think distribution of benefits needs to be adjusted. The wealthy do not have my concerns, and the lower income base does not have my concerns however they are the squeaky wheels and there is always a tax break, social program, or incentive.
The middle class is trying to move forward in many arenas with the struggle of paying taxes for public school, and paying private school tuition. Creating organizations to make grass roots efforts to enrich communities and being kept out of upper class organizations that will support our causes. Living in suburban America and pretending not to know if the balance gets off too far left as described in "Two Nations", for sale signs appear and property values shift.
I love America and the options for religion, social choices, and economic opportunities but as this years political race shapes up I can't help feeling that with all my commitment, and understanding of our country; when I see Senator Barack Obama defend things that have nothing to do with my concerns economic, security, or healthwise, his battle to defend the "Audacity to Hope" is like me screaming to America I am not strange, I am not a hindrance, I have values, I love my country, I want my children to have wonderful healthy lives, and I want to be safe in my retirement......but my church, and pastor shouldn't overshadow my education, exposure, diversity, and ability to unite the country.
Truthfully, individuals outside of mainstream America answer the same questions that Senator Obama has to answer, just positioned differently. How you might ask? Well by purchasing homes in communities and not knowing if we are welcomed, educating our children in environments where there is one child from India, one from Asia, one from South Side Chicago, and 20 from mainstream America. We do the same thing when we go to college and we have social organization for minorities on campus but decide to join organizations where we are the only African American, Asian, Mexican, Latino, Indian in the club, but we stand firm in our commitment to the organization and friends. When at work we have to prove that we play golf, know which wine is best with certain meals, and prove that we are equally capable of making a profit for the company.
I am not Anti-American, I salute the flag, and I love my country, our freedom, loyalty, and the wonderful neighborhood my family lives in, the school my children attend, and the ability to make choices, but I get heavy when I see a campaign go so sour that Republicans attack a Democratic candidate for his opponent in a nasty degrading way as the race moves to North Carolina.
The television reporters say it is just the fight required for politics, and the Democratic Party will not be divided, the people will come together in November..This simply is not true. For many people like me it starts to feel like for all the commitment I have made to feel equal in the "American Dream", to hope for the vision of Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy we are really starting to show just how much America has stuck it's head in the sand and when it looks too uncomfortable for some of us we will use race, religion, and the media to hurt a person that really just hoped to move the country into the progressive, tolerant, leading country on the Globe!
I will not just vote for any candidate because the candidate that created the negative campaign in the name of politics is not even hopeful for a one nation united working together for America, the candidate is for herself, for women, maybe children, and if it helps only mainstream America, and this I believe is why she thinks at the end of the day Barack Obama can't be elected.
