Equal Junction

Angry? Yes. Disappointed? Yes. Creating a more Perfect Union? Outlook-Not so Good, lets shake the magic 8 ball up again, hopefully all signs will point to yes????

Growing up as a child in the late 80s, space exploration was another season, I can barely remember “Hands Across America” and I wouldn’t understand the major jump between a President Reagan and a President Obama until after my college degree is gathering dust and my wedding ring still has a shine to it. These days, even after we have come so far, we still have a long way to go.

My mother used to tell me stories about her youth in mid 60s when she was a small child; her earliest memory is JFK being assassinated and it was like the world was going to fall apart. All united and cried. Simultaneously, she can recollect the racism toward non-whites in her community. As a young Latina, she felt it, my family felt it. You will have to pardon my tangents, but I think its because our country has gone into tangents that seem so askew it’s as if self-identity is being ridiculed again by others who wear different shoes. In grade school, I can remember being ridiculed for the way I acted, effeminate, yes, different, yes, weak, no.  However, I believed that when we became older, there would be more understanding and hope. We still need to grow up!

Why I bring all this up is because our Gay and Lesbian community was hit again by our own lawmakers and we feel so unprotected like the little kid in grade school who is treated poorly, differently, and the adults are arguing in the principal’s office and no one is making a correct decision that is not going to make things better for the child. We must remember that our country is still a young child not to be abused…its special.

In a time when job loss keeps growing, our lawmakers, dream makers, decided that DADT will stand and a group of individuals who serve for our country, our home, are being told they can’t and they are losing their position because of who they are. A human QUALITY that can truly unite us all in this divided world. Gays and Lesbians are NOT political pawns, they are your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, who want to go about their lives knowing that human kindness can overflow for them too.  Personally, we don’t care that statistics show that the Great Recession is over, if this country keeps on this path of decisions that cause losses, it wont be just a dust bowl, but a caldera that will eventually reach a boiling pt and then there is nothing we can do. However, hopefully, maybe, at that point, our hands and hearts will reach across and will not care who are neighbors, fellow citizens, and fellow soldiers are, and just live for one second in peace.

I look at our leaders, and I feel like we are picking at weeds, instead of planting seeds. This is not to disrespect our president or other politicians, but they are fighting more for their own power than the people.  Legacies and parties do not have to be represented by shiny statues or wars won. It can simply be a prosperous future where a price tag could NOT be placed.  As long as the seeds are planted and the foundation is sound, we can truly RESTORE our country.

People must adapt to change, DADT must go, and all need to realize that even though there is a large world out there, we are just a small spec full of brothers and sisters who make an impact on each other. When you smile at someone you don’t know, that leaves a mark. When you pass negative judgement at a stranger that leaves a bruise. We do not have much time on this planet, and it would be nice to let it be and NOT have an aisle divide us.

Instead of this as a typical post, I just typed my thoughts. Whether I am right or wrong, I don’t know. What I do know is that I feel like ‘The Rose’ lyrics, that our world is in a winter and we have to dig very far beneath the bitter snow, we will find a seed, and with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes a rose.

This sapling is not done yet, may our bark be solid, our trunks be tall, and our branches reach out to justice.

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