A Rambling Mama

We are under the leadership of an amoral President of the United States. At a time when bringing people together is paramount, Trump decides to bring a war to our streets and against lawful protestors outraged by racism and murder. The First Amendment of the US Constitution very clearly states the lawfulness for "people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." It is our right as citizens to gather and to protest grievances. It is our Right! Then, Trump decides to trample the very religion of our forefathers by posing for a photo-op in front of a Chruch he rarely attends, without regard for the people he had to forcibly remove to take the darn picture that was exercising their constitutional rights. He did not even bother to offer any words of encouragement or endearment, just taking photos with the Holy Bible before returning back to the White House. Now, let me be rather candid, as a Christian the idea of a person of such ...

Why does this matter? Because a racial group of people were targeted and deemed sub-human and forced to work for nothing because the Europeans needed labor and would rebound profits faster than if they hired farmhands. This is because after the Civil War during Reconstruction black leadership was undermined by the power that is to allow their achievements to fail and their bounds forward to be reversed. Because of a young man from a northern state named Emmett Till had the audacity to be black in the South and flirt with a pretty girl. Because of Segregation and desegregation. The Civil Rights movement, the Jackson Seven, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. Because of Trevon Martin.  Honestly, to me, this is simply a lack of experience and or education. Anyone that has taken a halfway decent history course on American History knows about the civil rights movement, about race riots, the Civil War, Slavery, the Triangular Slave Trade; and others who have lived it or dug deeper ...