NOT Changin’ My Mind
Have I changed my mind? No! I choose to wait it out on Mr. Lincoln’s hand picked young Harvard protegee. Yes, his linage and family were never in slavery. This fact has become the pet peeve of the high dollar blacks: charter members of the “He ain’t one of us with slave linage papers on Mr. Jefferson’s Monticello Farm.”
If memory serves me correctly, Mr. Lincoln was not shot until the days following his announcement to give the vote to the 200,000 plus blacks who fought for the union. The wealthy Booth Crew took offense and moved toward subversive plans to shoot the president.
J.F. Kennedy was not shot until he said, “When I get back from this Texas trip, I am going to end the Viet Nam thing.”
The United States of America needs a war so that Wall Street can keep us solvent and Main Street can remain a wealthy consumer. Our economy does not appear to be able to handle a ‘too long war’ nor can it handle ‘no war at all’.
We hardly settled our war with England when we suddenly just had to go to war with Mexico which at the time included Spain in the background.
We were not able to convince any major group in our population to ‘Go West Young Man’ until we promised them that gold was truly discovered in the west coast hills. True, a vein or two had been found but that did not stop the Eastern Seaboard states from planting gold where they knew it would work the best for all the east coast consumer and money streets. This included falsely salting The Dakotas in order to rid the rolling plains of the buffalo so the trains could freely and easily transport more easterners to the rich farm land.
Our government has changed little in policy and goals since those long ago days of Westward Ho The Wagons. My great grand parents were in those wagons out of Pennsylvania and Illinois and Iowa.
Andrew Jackson promised a solution to the Indian problem. He encouraged southern settlers to stay and build and farm the North and South Carolina area. He declaired he would move the Indians: simply set a hotter fire underneith them. The Trail Of Tears ended up the result of his decision. The cash crop of the lower Eastern Seaboard was and still is tobacco, cotton, corn, Nascar and moonshine liquor.
There was no room for the Cherokee Nation. Ethnic cleansing can happen anywhere anytime when any group of peoples get in the way of political progress. Hate rhetoric hype is with us in this country even in this very hour, day, month, year.
What continues to amaze me is America and Russia both work best under the war principle. Taking a hard line stand against each other seems to work for the best of all. We fight each other in the respected rope ring of Rocky. The rules are set and both countries play the Risk War Game while the United Nations wave the flags of referee.
There is not much good to be said for any huge juggernaut empire nation needing the stimulus package of a war to keep it economically afloat. It is a false economy that uses the cream of our children to fodder the cauldron of our insatiable desire for more.
No, I have not changed my mind because I believe in a change for the better, for the new, and for the lives of my great grand children.
This I Believe.
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