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I also heard AG Eric Holder’s comment. I think in a way he is right that we haven’t deal with racial issues as a country. People are afraid to speak up and say how they feel. On the same show yesterday Democracy Now was talking like only Black Americans live in poverty, while the truth is there are many White Americans who live in poverty as well. There are Hispanics who live in poverty. Yet, to many times it is only the Black families who are made out to be struggling to live. That isn’t true. Poverty shouldn’t be a racial issue, but yet many times people talk like it is.

When I lived in SC I worked with a Black man who I believe is right when he said poverty is a class issue. That it doesn’t matter if one is Black, White, Hispanic, or whatever if they are living in poverty we are fighting the same battles and shouldn’t be fighting each other.  Yet, to many times we are fighting each other, why?  Who does it serve to benefit when they get the poor fighting each other instead of working together to solve the problems that many Americans are facing? 

Instead of making poverty a Black issue and imply it only effects Black people, lets take the race out of poverty and call it what it is a class issue of people (no matter what the race) having to deal with the reality that we are having to deal with people who have been left behind and are struggling just to survive.

Is a White family struggling to survive any less value than a Black family who is facing the same struggles? Is the Hispanic family who is living in poverty any less value than the Black family who is also living in poverty? We should be standing together to fight against those who would want to keep people in poverty by not paying them livable wages, denying them health care, who would throw them out into the streets and would rather have an empty home than allow families to rewrite a loan so that the family can stay in their home.

 

This economic package is needed very badly to help all Americans. Yet the Gop and Conservatives are not wanting to work to find a solution, but making nasty comments, allowing people to suffer because they don’t want admit that the President might have some good ideas that might actually work.  Yes, they would rather allow Americans to suffer than to find a way to work with President Obama and the Democratic Congress.  What do you call it when very few vote for the economic package knowing that many Americans are suffering because they are living in poverty.  Yet, I guess because these very same people haven’t faced hardship that they have a heart of stone.   That is the only reason I can think of for the way they are behaving.

Racism is evil period. Why do we have to put race in the equation of living in poverty. 

Let’s fight for all Americans regardless of race to be able to have a job that pays enough to live on. Why not fight for all Americans regardless of race to be able to receive medical care when needed. Let’s fight for the right of all Americans to have a roof over their head and not have to live on the streets homeless.  Let’s fight for the right of every American to be able to move forward in life and to develop into the best they can be.

I stand up against all racism and this cartoon was out of line. We as a country have need to move pass race, and all races need to realize that we are truly one nation who can live together in peace, respect each other, and value each other. Yet to many times, from both sides I see a we vs them mindset and that upsets me, because I think we haven’t moved forward very much.  We are still fighting Racism and hate in this country.  We are still having to fight for Equal Rights of all Americans regardless of color, sex, and religion.

I love Hawaii, because in Hawaii they have many races and cultures living in peace along side of each other. It is not us vs them, but a we attitude of tolerance, respecting all, and working together for the common good of all. Maybe someday the Mainland will embrace that same attitude.

 

President Obama was educated and grew up in Hawaii.  He hasn’t forgotten the Hawaii way.  Let us hope that the rest of the country is willing to learn something from Hawaii and what makes Hawaii so special and different from the mainland.

 

Is his package perfect?  NO, but either is anything in this life.  Will his package work?  Let us pray it does.  For the sake of this nation. The banks could very well continue to same ole same ole and not work with people who need to restructure the loans so that they can pay monthly payments.

 

I just wish the Right Wing in this country would start thinking about what they can do to move forward and help to overcome the problems instead of doing what they can to ensure that the president fails so that they can say I got you in the end.