Someone To Bury Us

There was a profound difference between Beck’s and Colbert’s/Stewart’s rally. (I haven’ heard the numbers comparison yet.) The networks steered clear of this one because they felt embarrassed. So did most Democrat politicians.

The difference between Beck’s and today’s rally is the difference between old and new. In the pre-Obama days, a large part of the American Dream was perceived as our children doing better than ourselves. That’s why many of us risked everything to get here. Today, it can be summed up by the adage: We bear our children as to have someone to bury us.

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Monty Python And the Holy Grail

I discovered this gem 10 years late. The kids were already old enough to watch and understand movies. We saw this one over and over again and we laughed every time. Even when not watching it, we had come to know the script by heart and acted it out precisely. “Bring out your dead!” was one of our favorite parts to reenact.

Those were innocent days. Or so it seemed. Our future still lay ahead of us. Even with all the political drama raging all around us, we felt somehow secure, ensconced in the apparently limitless American dream. We felt we could forge ahead as long as the government kept foreign threats from materializing into something that could hurt us. There was no question that our government was up to the job.

We had jobs. We went to work every day. We could even afford to be choosey. Say, we didn’t like what we were doing, we could always go and do something else. The kids did their homework with pencil and paper. …or else they read history texts with a picture of George Washington on the cover.

We would never have guessed that it would all fall apart under a church-going, half-white, half-black president who would turn all black the minute he took office.

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