They Lived in Despair but Just Didn't Know It

When a people believe through brainwashing or social programming that what they have is what they really want, then you cannot force someone against their will to seek a better life. In fact they will fight against the givers of Freedom at the bequest of their own purveyors of propaganda.

When a regime controls the media, knowledge and teachings, a culture may not realize that there is a better way or life out there and they can have it, if they will stand up together; power to the people. I would like to stamp our hunger and poverty, but not entirely. I believe that the life experience is about joy, happiness, pain and sorrow. And those choices should be allowed too. In other words if someone chooses to be Unhappy or live a life of pain and sorrow, they too should be allowed that choice.

An Individual should be allowed to live without things. Such as a minimalist or Buddhist Monk? Too much abundance is a choice in some countries such as the United States of Am erica, yet it can also be abused, causing fat humans, who also choose to indulge without responsibility. Democracy is about choice, but with that choice comes responsibility.

Many a learned man believes that the elimination of poverty and hunger are a by-product of a more efficient civilization, which empowers its people through choice and liberty. They believe that ONE of the major goals of Democracy should be to stabilize a civilization to function efficiently for the whole, while respecting, tolerating and allowing the Liberty of the Individual. In fact; I am they, I am with them, if they will come and see what the world has to offer if they will make a stand now.

I believe it so strongly, I am proud to be an American. Others should follow what we have built here. I believe we should better what we have built, improve efficiencies and further streamline it and bring it closer to its original roots without denying its faults or problems; sweeping nothing under the carpet. Then utilizing all the modern technologies available, seek perfection in every regard and then franchise this self-government method around the Planet to all. That is what I think. My name is Lance Winslow and thanks for asking. Tell me what you think of my observations here in the present period?

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: Lived in Despair, Freedom, Individual, Unhappy, Fought
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The Trickster of Folklore

Folklore includes a traditional trickster figure, the subject of many stories in a cycle. Trickster tales are in the animal tales genre, with the trickster himself -- he seems always to be male -- identified with a particular animal. These include the fox in Japan, mouse deer in Southeast Asia, the coyote and the spider among the Native Americans, the tortoise and spider in West Africa, and the mantis in Southern Africa.

These tales feature a trickster-hero who may be regarded as both creator god and innocent fool, evil destroyer and childlike prankster.

Tricksters are usually small in size next to the large, strong animals that appear in the same folktales. Tricksters survive by their wits, but they do more than just survive. They constantly play tricks on the animals around them, outwitting and mistreating their powerful neighbours even when these larger animals haven't done anything to deserve it. Occasionally he overreaches himself and finds that he's been too clever for his own good.

It's the Trickster who points out the flaws in our carefully managed societies. He rebels against authority, pokes fun at the overly serious, creates complex schemes and generally plays with the Laws of the Universe. He constantly questions the rules, and causes us to question these same rules. The Trickster appears when a way of thinking becomes outmoded, when old ways need to be changed.

The Trickster is a creator, a joker, a truth teller, a story teller, a transformer. We are most accessible to the gifts of the Trickster when we ourselves are at, or near, boundaries - when we are experiencing transition states. As an archetype, the Trickster, the boundary dweller, finds expression through human imagination and experience.

Trickster tales are great favourites in many cultures. They represent the underdog who uses skill and cunning to outwit a superior. West African trickster animals have a significant presence in the New World , when they travelled as part of the Folklore of enslaved Africans. The rabbit is best known as Br'er Rabbit in the folktales documented by Joel Chandler Harris in the USA. We also find him in his modern avatar, Bugs Bunny !

The spider is best known as Anansi, and you find him throughout the former English and French colonies of the West Indies.

The role of the slave trickster tales was an important one giving a sense of pride and hope for the future. They showed that the weak could conquer the strong. The tales were devices that taught helplessness can triumph over virtue and mischievousness is better than malice. For the slaves, trickster Folklore was also a weapon by which they were able to take subtle revenge on their masters.

Susanna Duffy is a Civil Celebrant, grief counsellor and mythologist. She creates ceremonies and Rites of Passage for individual and civic functions, and specialises in celebrations for women. http://celebrant.yarralink.com

Author:: Susanna Duffy
Keywords:: Folklore, traditional tales, Archetypes, slave stories
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Open Borders With Mexico A Worthy Goal Indeed

Can you imagine a world was no borders? Wouldnt it be great if we can get rid of all the man-made lines drawn in the sand, which were done so or determined through corrupt governments and bloodshed of war? But what about our own borders in the United States of America with Canada and Mexico; two fine neighbors considering all the conflict in the world with other nations and we're very lucky to have them next door and also grateful to be able to trade with such neighbors where civil unrest is rarely heard of.

However, there is a problem when one nation takes advantage of another nation and in our current case with Mexico the president of Mexico, Vincent Fox is telling his citizens to come to the United States and work and send money back so their economy will grow. And it is certainly growing very fast well over 5 to 8 percent per year and that he is extremely good growth for Mexico. Now then, an open border would be great and I had discussed this in 1999 in an Article that I wrote regarding the legal immigration below;

For all open border economists and Freedman Economist extremists Xs 2, we must remember the disease, birth control, birth rate and education levels. If proper training is done we will succeed. But one thing that makes the US so great is the creation of the middle class. Destroying the foundation of the middle class through incoherent immigration enforcement and lack of action will destroy the fiber of America. Including the buyers of the SUVs, soccer moms, College system, and general welfare services. We are treading on thin ice and we need to pay attention to these things as they affect our daily lives. We are told of this great era we live, we are told of the great economy, but look closely and see where we are headed and it does not look so ro sy.

You see, the problem is not with open Borders the problem is with corrupt governments. Currently there are 24 million illegal aliens in our country and 60 percent come from Mexico and they are coming at a faster and faster rate each year as they are told to come here by their own governments. Something must be done and we must protect the United States of America from these invaders to prevent economic loss in our civilization. It is a serious issue and yes these folks are only coming to build a better life, but can we afford it? Consider all this in 2006.

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: Open Borders With Mexico, Worthy Goal
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Going Back in Time

Have you ever wished you could go back in Time for just one day. Say maybe for a family reunion, or Thanksgiving dinner, or Christmas dinner. Remember those days when everyone would get together at Grandma's house. Kids running around the house, grown-ups all trying to talk at the same Time. All the guys talking about sports, or hunting. Grandma and mom and all the grown girls in the kitchen trying to help Grandma cook dinner, which she refuses to let anyone help. You just sit and watch those magic fingers working with the food, hoping you can cook as good as her when you grow up.

And the food, wow, Grandma could make the best of everything. The fun Time is eating all the food. You want to try everything, knowing you will have a tummy ache when you are done. Everyone's at the dinner table. Grace is said, and the food starts to circle around the table. Oh how it all looks so good, and taste so good. Men still talking about their hunting trip or about the fo otball game coming on in a couple hours. The women talking about the food and trying to get Grandma to give up some of her secret recipes. Oh and the kids talking about the newest toy they got or the bicycle ride they take with their little friends. What fun we had back then.

Now a days most everyone does their own thing. How many Times do you hear someone say that they are going to Grandma's for dinner on Sunday after church, or Thanksgiving is at Grandma's, or Aunt and Uncle so and so, or we will all gather at so and so's house for Christmas fun? You don't hear that too often. Everyone seems to do their own thing now a days. Family tradition isn't like it use to be. You are lucky that you can get your own kids to hang around on a holiday or even take Time out from their busy day of nothing, to even sit down and have dinner with you.

It is a shame that families don't get together anymore. Once a family member passes on, you wish you would have spent more T ime with him or her. We are all guilty of that, even me.

I live out of state away from all my family and when I go home to visit we try to have atleast one day that everyone in my family gets together, it's fun. We sit around and catch up on everything that has happened since the last Time you saw them. And the reminiscencing, everyone seems to remember something that you forgot about long ago. Oh ,how much fun that can be. You really don't want it to end.

You never know when something will happen, we all need to fit the family in our lives again. Once they are gone, it is over, you can't visit them again. So I am saying, we all need to make some family traditions now. It is never to late to start family traditions for Christmas, Thanksgiving or just a barbecue in the back yard once a year with all

Come by Lenores World and stay a while.

Author:: Lenore Chapman
Keywords:: Time,back in Time,Nostalgia,Memories
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When We Was Kids In Chicago

Radio was the big communicator, back when I was a kid. Whole families huddled around the speaker of that hulk. Our minds, working like a cotton picker on a hot summer day. We had imagination. Vivid, plentiful thoughts, moving throughout the story which was being broadcast.

The characters, were like people we somehow knew. People who lived right down the street from us, in the three story apartment building. That apartment building, was a warehouse of eclectic personalities, popping from every floor, and every door.

Old cars, now relics of the past. New, when we were young. Cool cars too, metal so thick, you could hurt your hand just bumping into it. Lasted a long time, and made moving about the big city of Chicago much easier than taking the trolley, bus or EL, short for elevated train.

Oh yes, want to get the scare of a lifetime, ride the EL around one of those sharp corners, thirty feet off the ground. Steel wheels grinding against steel tracks, making sounds so shrill,the devil himself, would cringe. I know my Mom's hands were crimped for a week, when I would grip her hand so tight around those curves.

People wearing clothes that made them all look like gangsters. Suits way to large, cuffs on shirts that could hide a deck of cards, and a pair of dice.

Litter blowing everywhere, down windy streets, sweeping dicarded cigarette packages, and paper, and dirt, like a hurricane unleashed. It is the Windy City, after all.

Another memory comes to mind now, tennis balls being bounced off the lowest step of building's porches. Thump, thump, and crowds of Kids leaping over one another, trying to catch the ball, as it bounced high into the air. No kid would even care to watch that now, much less participate. We did it for hours. Boredom played tricks on the mind.

Did I mention, the best steps to bounce a ball on, were the steps of Peterson's store. To us, it was the candy depot. Apothecary jars, filled with ca ndy of every description. Hands full of candy for pennies. Kids drool when I tell them how much candy, they could have bought back then with two dollars.

We learned young, that after long hours of the thumping noise. People were inclined to buy you some candy, just to make the noise stop for awhile. We weren't too dumb.

Fighting in Chicago was a prerequisite to boyhood. When we would walk down the streets, past the Alleys, fear was constant, as all the really bad boys lurked down that alley way. No place for the faint of heart. We all thought we were tough guys back then. Maybe we really were?

No drugs back then, at least, none of us every heard about them. Our parents made vague references to drugs, in retrospect, but, really, they didn't even know what they were. Although, Pops knew what beer was. He knew all about that. All the World War 2 guys drank beer. Because, they really were tough guys. We didn't know that you could be tough, and not drink, and smoke cigarettes.

Life in the Alleys of Chicago, was not only for tough guys. It was an avenue for commerce as well. The coal man came with the truck, and shovelled coal down a shute into your basement, to keep your furnace going. Thats right coal. Black smoke billowing from everyone's buildings.

Men selling rags, singing a song that was well known to us. Rags, Rags, everyone needs rags, Ragman coming, come and gettem Gosh, they sold everything in those Alleys.< /p>

Milkmen, with horse drawn carts. Oh now, we loved those horses. They were huge with covers over their eyes. As Kids we didn't know what those were. We really didn't care as long as we could pet the horses.

The milkman was kindly, and chipped off chunks of ice, from the big blocks in the wagon, which kept the milk cold. We absolutely loved that. Ice, who would think that a little thing like that would be so important to little Kids. I will always be gratefull to that man for his kindness.

Scissor and knife sharpeners. They all had a song. Singing loudly, I admired them so. They were the best kind of entepreneurs. Business men, who set their own pace, in a world of frantic motion.

There is so much more to those days. So many memories that were the best kind of life experiences, back when we was Kids in Chicago.

Part two, tomorrow night. Look for it under my pen name/ Native American name, Luksi Humma, in the search bar on the left menu.

Au thor:: Luksi Humma
Keywords:: Kids, Chicago, Big City, Alleys, tough guys, old days, simple life, city life, old radio, Kids playi
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A Biography of KHIEU Samphan (PhD)

Extraordinary chamber to try some of the top leaders during Democratic Kampuchea Regime; a regime that is accused of killing millions of Cambodian innocent lives, is on the process. This is probably the most heated topic from the government institution up to the general public. However, a prevailing fact that would dim the justice prospect for Cambodian people is that a huge number of the people do not even know the basic biography of those most responsible Democratic Kampuchea leaders to face trial, constituted of Cambodian and international judges.

Mr. KHIEU Samphan, one of the prominent leaders of many other Democratic Kampuchea leaders is due to face the foregoing extraordinary chamber; however, a huge number of Cambodian people, old and young, do not even have even a basic knowledge pertaining this man: This is the fact that I hypothesize that Cambodian prospect to justice is apparently faint. The entire contents of the following compiled essay will unveil KHIEU Samphans on-the-surface biographical details.

I. Childhood

Mr. KHIEU Samphan who is considered as brother number five, after SALOTH Sar (Pol Pot), NUON Chea, IENG Sary and TA Mok, is believed to be born July 27, 1931 in Svay Rieg province. He is the oldest son in the family. His father was a local judge. After a compulsory education in his hometown, KHIEU Samphan pursued his education to Sisowat High School in Phnom Penh. During his time, Sisowat or Preah Sisowat High School was believed to be the top high school in Cambodia. Only the uptown-class or outstanding students would attend this educational institution.

KHIEU Samphans childhood is not dramatically known, and until now, resources about his childhood are still inadequate and even unreliable. But he became better noted after winning the government scholarship to study in the University of Paris in Paris city, France.

Since his childhood, Mr. KHIEU Samphan was believed to be a serious and good- natured man, up to being entitled: A clean man. Because of these outstanding personalities, he was granted with government scholarship to pursue his studies in Paris, France, up to achieving Doctor of Economics. It was from here, the University of Paris, that Max Lenin ideologies have been inserted into Cambodian intellectuals who latter became leader of Democratic Kampuchea. History has told that the universities in Paris have created most of the Cambodian intellectuals.

Pursuant to American sources, Mr. KHIEU Samphan was reported to be one of the most outstanding students amongst his generation. Other astoundingly outstanding students in KHIEU Samphans generation including HOU Yun who mastered Economics and Law. Mr. HOU Yun (born 1930) was classified as the astoundingly physical and intellectual person and another genius was Mr. SON Sen who red education and literature.

II. Studies in Paris and Doctoral Thesis

Mr. KHIEU Samphan granted his Doctoral Degree in Economics from the University of Paris, a world-wide recognized university in humanity and materialistic and ideological invention.

KHIEU Samphan who was one of the pivotal members of Khmer Student Association in Paris selected a doctoral thesis, entitled: Cambodias Economy and Industrial Development and successfully defended this thesis. His Doctoral Degree in Economics was granted during the 1950s.

It can be brief that his doctoral thesis sided with national self-reliance. From deeper analysis into his doctoral thesis, more personalities of KHIEU Samphan would be more understandable. KHIEU Samphan accused the rich countries that have advanced industrialization are the factors to make the poor countries poorer. The core of hi doctoral thesis, was that he supported dependency theory. So what is dependency theory?

Dependency theory is the body of social science theories by various intellectuals, both from the Third World and the First World, that create a worldview which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy.

Dependency theory states that the poverty of the countries in the periphery is not because they are not integrated into the world system, or not 'fully' integrated as is often argued by free market economists, but because of how they are integrated into the system. The premises of dependency theory are:

-Poor nations provide natural resources, cheap labor, a destination for obsolete technology, and markets to the wealthy nations, without which they could not have the standard of living they enjoy.

-First World nations actively, but not necessarily consciously, perpetuate a state of dependency through various policies and initiatives. This state of dependency is multifaceted, involving economics, media control, politics, banking and finance, education, sport and all aspects of human resource development.

-Any attempt by the dependent nations to resist the influences of dependency will result in economic sanctions and/or military invasion and control.

The doctoral thesis herein is believed to be strictly adopted into political administration of Democratic Kampuchea. Not only the KHIEU Samphans doctoral thesis, HOU Yuns doctoral thesis entitled: Cambodian peasants and their prospects for modernization, is also believed to have great influence on general policy of Democratic Kampuchea (DK).

Though these two doctoral thesis became the perils of Democratic Kampucheas political administration, these two people are yet to be accused of being the mastermind of the sins committed during DKs reign. Yes, would mean their doctoral thesis intended to extinguish million of Cambodian lives and No, would mean the head of the Democratic Kampuchea may exaggerate the contents of the thesis or scapegoat the two intellectuals.

Because the intellectuality of Cambodian people who graduated from universities in Paris during the 1950s, Cambodia was praised as the first communist country that was led by intellectuals, in Asia. III. Group of Khmer Students in Paris (Initiation of Political Ideology)

During the 1950s, Cambodian students who were studying in different universities in Paris, integrated to establish their own communist movement and this movement was believed to have very little connection with their home government. So of the returned members of this movement returned to their home countries and took up political leadership positions in DK government, including KHIEU Samphan, POL Pot, IENG Sary, to name just a very few. It was from this movement: Khmer Student Association, that KHIEU Samphan was converted into an all-out communist. The involvement of Cambodian students who returned from universities in Paris was to set up a movement to combat against LON Nol and Prince Norodom Sihanouk where were deemed as corrupt and egoist. Such the movement of the se students was then improve to a regime, called Democratic Kampuchea.

IV. Political Life

KHIEU Samphan arrived back in Cambodia in 1959, with a doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Paris. Immediately after his arrival in Cambodia, he took up a position in the Faculty of Law in Phnom Penh; simultaneously, establish a French-language journal entitled, Lobservateur. This journal strongly sided with the leftist. The purpose if this journal was to better the social justice and other field of humanity in Cambodia during that time. But this never resisted him from commitment to Cambodian social justice. It was from this journal that KHIEU Samphan won great popularity from the public, especially the students. However, this journal did not survive long; it was closed just after one year, KHIEU Samphan was arrested and undressed in the public by Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

After the coupe in 1970, Prince Norodom Sihanouk collaborated with other Khmer com munists, including his former enemy: KHIEU Samphan, to resist against LON Nol government. In this coalition government, KHIEU Samphan was nominated as the Deputy Prime Minister, Minster of National Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Coalition Government. It was from these political events that KHIEU Samphan climbed to the top positions within the Democratic Kampuchea regime.

His political life during the Democratic Kampuchea era (1975-1978) was hard to unveil, due to the fact that confidentiality and secrecy were the leadership strategies of the DK leaders.

KHIEU Samphan is now living in his last military stronghold: Pailin Municipality, the province in the most west of Cambodia, bordered with Thailand. He is also under the guardianship of his brother-in-law IENG Sarys soldiers.

V. Students Talk Trial with Ex-KR Leaders in Pailin

Extracted from The Cambodia Daily, Friday, August 26, 2005 A group of university students canvassing villages to con duct interviews about the Khmer Rouge regime and distribute information about the long-awaited tribunal ended up in unlikely conversations with former Khmer Rogue leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea in their Pailin Municipality homes last week.

Graduate student and Documentation Center of Cambodia intern Huy Vannak organized the group for a planned distribution of the documents in Pailin. And despite their apprehensions at bringing Khmer Rogue tribunal literature to the foremost former rebel stronghold, the group decided to seek out the aging communist leaders at their homes.

I thought because of security and cooperation we should not go to the Khmer Rouge stronghold, Huy Vanak said Thursday. I told myself we should not fear the Khmer Rogue. During the Khmer Rouge regime they tried to frighten my mother, to frighten everybody. I have learned a lot. Khmer rouge are not tigers. They are human beings.

The group went to Khieu Samphans house near the eastern sid e of central Pailin, but were initially rejected despite a polite chum reap sour and assurances that they were students, not journalists. Khieu Samphan, former Democratic Kampuchea head of state, eventually acquiesced and asked them to return later in the afternoon.

Next, the students went to find Brother No 2 Nuon Chea, who lives about 300 meters from the Thai border in Brother No 3 Ieng Sarys son-in-laws house, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. [Nuon Cheas wife asked us who are you, and where do you come from? Huy Vannak said. We told her we are students and we ant to learn about Pailin. She said, grandfather is sleeping, but its ok, you can talk to him.

Nuon Chea emphasized religion in their talk, and denied that religion had been suppressed under the Khmer Rouge.

He maintained that people were just busy building the country and so could not give alms, so monks were forced to feed themselves.

I think Mr. Nuon Chea is open-minded, but w hen he answers its not so good, said group member Ean Sopheap. When I asked him questions, he looked at other people when he answered.

I never expected that I could meet a Khmer Rouge leader, Ean Sophea added. I was born in 1980.

The students returned to Khieu Samphans home in the evening. I feel that Khieu Samphan is a trustworthy and gentle man. He is an intellectual from what I know, said another member of the group, 22-year-old student Chheng Koemseng. My parents used to tell me that Pol Pots men were very cruel, but when I met them face-to-face. I felt they are just old men, like my grandfather.

However, Huy vanak was less than sympathetic. The two guys told us only a small chapter of the history. We need more answers from them. Why did they give people less food? Why did they evacuate people? Why did they kill people? They said they did not know about the killing. How could they not know?

The students discussed the tribunal very little with the aging Khmer Rouge leaders, but Khieu Samphan didnt seem worried.

Khieu Samphan said if they have a tribunal people will not be happy, because he is an honest guy and has devoted everything to the country, and people would not be happy with the courts decision, Huy Vannak said. I almost told him people would [still not be happy if the court cut him into two million pieces.

Lay Vicheka is a translator for the most celebrated translation agency in the Kingdom of Cambodia, Pyramid Translation Co.Ltd.. He is now hoding other two professions: freelance writer for Search Newspaper; focusing on social issues and students' issues and Media Liaison Officer for Asia's first free on-line IELTS consultation website. Lay Vicheka is the expert author for ezine and prolific Article contributor to other websites arou nd the world such as Articlecity, 365Articles, spiderden, talesofasia, etc (Just google him). He is also a volunteer Cambodian-newspapers columnist (Rasmey Kampuchea and Kampuchea Thmey). Lay Vicheka has great experience in law and politics, as he used to be legal and English-language assistant to a Cambodian member of parliament, migration experience (home-based business) and in writing. He is also member of a New York-based research company. Posting address: 221H Street 93, Tuol Sangke quArt er, Russey Keo district, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel: 855 11 268 445, vichekalay@yahoo.com

Author:: Vicheka Lay
Keywords:: Cambodian political history
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Houston We Have a Problem Hurricane Katrina Victims

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina we see some problematic race issue. There are Black Americans very concerned that the slower than anticipated relief efforts. In fact some have taken to the media and even written scathing reports and condemnations of everyone from the former Head of FEMA to the President of the United States claiming they are anti-black and helped white people first.

I am saddened to find our citizens feel like this, it upsets me. I read one article that a Malcolm X or a modern day MLK could have well written it. It was an attack on the leadership telling of anti-African American sentiments. A well written article by a talented writer in fact certain paragraphs could easily have referred to Chinese Immigrants crawling thru tunnels to set dynamite charges to build the railroad, which were often set off before they could get out or Irish Americans during the Industrial Revolution; or the exploited of other countries. I understand that some Interne t News outlets refuse to allow such articles. I understand them not wanting to post such articles as they appears to insight anger, rebellion and borderlines on revolution. Especially after Great Britain and her move to make International Terrorism talk illegal in Mosques.

Yet we know that such articles are all the part of the human endeavor in its sound and fury of many a past and present period. Perhaps these issues and articles do need to be heard. Many feel it is better to not silence such feelings as if we allow them to stew, rather than allow the emotion to flow that we may not understand their plight or growing inner rage. The argument is if we do not listen the problem of race will continue to fester until riots erupt in the future?

As we see International Terrorists attempt to recruit Americans in our country to join their hatred, we now know how one could fall to their offer. Perhaps if we understood these feelings and issues we might as well prevent th e recruiting of Americans to assist in joining those Radical Islamic Jihadist Murderers. Of course one article written by an author named Lisa is anything of the sort, this person appears to be a writer and allows expression thru that form instead of violence, but what if we fail to listen? Would this individual or individuals like her who find no way out, nothing to lose, economically enslaved, no voice and then they could join up with those who hate and want to kill, plan and attack our fellow citizens?

Now one might say that such words of attack on the character of our leadership incite others to sign up against us all. But if we fail to listen, and one day someone it could all, explode. Then TV announcers would then say; Oh how could this happen? The answer would be we swept the truth under the carpet and did not listen, we should have known.

I personally do not approve of such articles, but am grateful to see its perspective and it shows; Houston we have a p roblem and they were moved here from New Orleans and boy are they pissed! Not all of them, but enough to make us at least listen. Whether or not they have a legitimate point is questionable, yet their points need to be fully addressed now that the media has blown the entire event out of proportion.

There were no threats in these articles, just promises to not forget the treatment, nor should we next time. America self-segregates and it is a shame. I wish we did not do that. But we all do, all of us. We should be thinking on this, if we are all one, we ought to start acting like it and listen to all sides. Partitioning away the truth will only cause it to rise again and bite you in the rear. Although I disagree with these articles, which further separate us from our neighbors and citizens; I do respect their opinions, passions and want them to know we feel your pain and value your perspective. America is with you; please know that. Everyone should think on these things during our present period.

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: african american, slow relief, hurricane katrina, Victims
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