The tears of a Child

I spend alot of time in the bookstore. I get a large number of magazines and books and sit there for hours reading catching up on the current events and popular works of literature. I read everything from XXL, Forbes, Time Magazine, 1600, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Romeo and Juliet; I read absolutely everything that holds my attention. Sunday I was in the store and I heard a little kid crying. The kid was in the back of the store and I was more so in the front but the child was very loud. I saw the baby was so upset that he or she had to be taken out of the store. Different patrons of the store became upset because the "baby was crying to loud." But as I sat and saw the child being picked up by his or her father I wondered; at what point do we as people lose that bravery. This child was in a situation and for whatever reason felt it necessary to let everyone know that things didn’t feel right. When did we conform to the social norms so much so that we sit and allow the world around us; that is suppose to be comfortable get so agitated and dangerous.
In any other country an election took place and it was so obviously tampered with, the people of that country would have rioted. If a president had lied to his people, as many times as ours he would have been impeached. We live in a world that people of color get more scholarships for sports than they do for academics and yet we sit here and not only allow it we promote it. As a child I grew up in an area that was submerged in poverty and every older person I knew had been to jail or they were somehow involved with an illegal substance. I say that not to promote anything, but being around these people I saw that I didn’t want my only source of income to require me not to be able to sleep at night. Now today it is expected for a black man to do time. It is expected for our people to be considered last.
I am a Black Man, a Republican because I do feel it is important to promote small business and to teach others how to control their own destinies. But I do not agree with how the Republican Party illegally gives breaks to big business. I am also a Liberal with left wing ideas about the human condition. I feel it is the responsibility of the country to be sure that not only are its citizens well educated regardless of class but that they can get proper health care and that every child is given an opportunity to grow and contribute. Unless the parent of that child is not emotionally, financially, or spiritually ready for a child. I am a Christian that does not believe in the bible because man wrote it and today 2006 the government in power is going into the national archives and reclassifying what they feel the public has a right to know.
I understand that the History of a nation is decided by those who are in power and the most powerful book of all time may have fallen victim to those who felt the message will be better served if it said this or that. I believe in the sprit of freedom but I know it is not freedom when we force it down the throat of others. I decided after seeing that baby cry that I should cry also, because I am not comfortable and you are a fool if you aint crying with me.

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