This video might be a little too touchy-feely, or let-love-rule in it’s message, but I think it’s smart and really positive. The Stephen Colbert bit at the end helps make my sarcastic side swallow it a little easier.
But.
I’m annoyed that is someone feels it had to be made. That this was a message that needed to heard.
Despite what is focused on between pundits and news reports, is America really that far from it’s moral center? Do we really need to be reminded of how far we’ve come from the days of the KKK, slavery, and the slaughter of the First Nation? I wonder if the Americans really are in the grip of fear mongers and misinformation or if we just think we are.
Are we just disappointed that our progressive agenda has reached full light under President Obama? Is it the 24-hour news cycle that fills our media with reports of (and from) fringe whack-jobs?
Or perhaps I’m annoyed because it’s all true. That we’ve turned our backs from our hearts, or sympathy, our ability to work together and compromise towards common goals. Is it the after effects of 9/11? The cynicism and message overload of the Information Age? Or is it really that we never progressed and (jesus-fucking-christ, I hope not) it’s all because we have a black man in the Oval Office?
A visual history of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(via ilovecharts)
Source: ilovecharts
For what is a nation if not a people of a common ancestry, faith, culture and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays and share the same music, poetry, art and literature?
Those are all a way to build a nation, but not the only ways, and a people do not have to share all of these characteristics in order to be a nation. I mean, what if we all believed in the same document that birthed our nation? Wouldn’t that count?
Either way, I think we have enough overlap on all these things to consider ourselves a nation.
Source: mandalay
