There have been a few people who have asked me, "why haven't you written about Tiger Woods in the past month?" so I have to put out my official statement on the matter. There will be no postings on this site about Tiger Woods or any of his "transgressions". I do not believe that a rich, powerful, super famous athlete who sleeps around on his wife is news. That is just life. It will be news if a rich, powerful, super famous athlete lends their name and voice to something more meaningful than their wallet. When athletes like Michael Jordan leave the statement "republicans buy sneakers too" for their agents, and speak up for the folks that work in the Nike factories and shops, THAT will be news.
This is not an indictment against Nike or Tiger or Michael Jordan. This is an indictment on a society that is so easily distracted by a sports star or a sex scandal that we are missing the real "transgressions". There are two wars, that do not seem to be coming to an end any time soon. Poverty so horrific that you don't have to stay up late at night to see on an infomercial, just drive around your town a few times, take a good look at all of the foreclosure signs. There is genocide going on, I don't mean in Africa or some Third World crumbling nation, but right here 45,000 people die due to a lack in health insurance. That is preventable! We do not have to live and die this way. More men and women die due to insufficient health insurance each year than drunk driving and domestic homicide combined.
So that is why we must say no to the tabloids and stop reading about paper tigers. We should not allow ourselves to be so easily distracted to focus so much of our time and energy into the personal dealings with just another man. He is just another guy. Tiger Woods is not, nor has he ever been a god. He is just a regular man with an amazing amount of golfing talent and a very full social calendar.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The American Disease Care System: The Disease of the Dollar
Since President Obama has taken office, there has been lots of noise made on the Hill about health care reform and the issue of government provided health care to American citizens. All of the talk about reforming healthcare and fixing our healthcare system has been the subject of unfocused anger spewed from both side of the aisle by legislators and political commentators alike. The arguments have been pretty typical, some of the democrats are pushing for a national health-care plan that most likely includes a "public option'. On the other side, stands the GOP along with their allies, the insurance companies and the American Medical Association (the AMA) are crying out "socialized medicine" and the other tired generalizations about government programs for the public good. This entire argument is utterly ridiculous, because the real argument is not about fixing our health-care system. The United States does not have a comprehensive health-care system and this reform that is being proposed will not be comprehensive either. The United States has a disease care system. The worst part is the disease is not curable or even treatable; this disease will always be prevalent in America. The disease is the dollar.
The interests groups like the AMA and the insurance companies stand to get cut out of their continuous pot of gold that will fall their way if Obama and the Democrats are able to pass their toothless healthcare bill. If the Democrats' concessions to the Right, and to the base of corporate America, puts together a reform bill with a 'market mandate' on health insurance like auto insurance the insurance providers are the big winner of this legislation. A mandate would bring 50 million Americans to slaughter by making them buy ineffective health insurance that provides care to the healthy and rejects the sick. This is a growing trend in this administration, big business is the winner of the policies coming out of Washington and the loser is the American people.
The biggest question for our entire situation is this, how can the richest country in the world allow corporations to mortgage its citizens' health on the basis of money? How can our government justify private insurance corporations reaping the financial rewards for denying patient claims and denying payments for treatment of care? This is not socialism, just a rational idea. Too bad rational thought seems to be void on Capitol Hill most of the time (The Senate just voted to apologize for slavery this year, only 144 years late). We are supposed to be living in a modern society. That is what societies do, they protect their citizens. It is just sad that our society is sick and there is no protection in sight. We are riddled with a disease that no health-care reform bill can cure. Americans have been stricken with the disease of the dollar and even President Obama can't change that.
The interests groups like the AMA and the insurance companies stand to get cut out of their continuous pot of gold that will fall their way if Obama and the Democrats are able to pass their toothless healthcare bill. If the Democrats' concessions to the Right, and to the base of corporate America, puts together a reform bill with a 'market mandate' on health insurance like auto insurance the insurance providers are the big winner of this legislation. A mandate would bring 50 million Americans to slaughter by making them buy ineffective health insurance that provides care to the healthy and rejects the sick. This is a growing trend in this administration, big business is the winner of the policies coming out of Washington and the loser is the American people.
The biggest question for our entire situation is this, how can the richest country in the world allow corporations to mortgage its citizens' health on the basis of money? How can our government justify private insurance corporations reaping the financial rewards for denying patient claims and denying payments for treatment of care? This is not socialism, just a rational idea. Too bad rational thought seems to be void on Capitol Hill most of the time (The Senate just voted to apologize for slavery this year, only 144 years late). We are supposed to be living in a modern society. That is what societies do, they protect their citizens. It is just sad that our society is sick and there is no protection in sight. We are riddled with a disease that no health-care reform bill can cure. Americans have been stricken with the disease of the dollar and even President Obama can't change that.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Is it Time to Say Goodbye to the HBCU?
The economic situation our nation has found itself in over the past two years has revealed many outdated business models. As a country we are looking to get leaner and more efficient for the 21st century. I believe one of those models is the need for the historically black college and university (HBCU). HBCUs exist out of a historical need to provide institutions of higher education for African American students during a time in which they were excluded from the majority serving colleges and universities. Now, times have changed. We live in an increasingly less racist society and an institution that primarily serves African Americans is now as outdated as the model T.
HBCUs have been exposed due to a financial squeeze from financial assistance to the students and state assistance to the institutions. Many of these schools do not possess large endowments and the loss of student enrollment cripples the economic outlook for these centers of higher learning. The education received by students that attend HBCUs is another issue for the next generation of learners. Is the learning experience provided by HBCUs adequately meeting the needs of the next generation of leaders? In a worldwide economy, American needs world class education not world class exclusion! The United States is already behind the rest of the world in education, I don't believe we should be separating our talent pool, by the color of their skin.
The opponents of my viewpoint, say that the HBCU is a bastion of academe that still harvest and cultivates black scholars in an environment that nurtures their talents to a greater extent, than at predominantly white institutions. I would say that they are probably correct. I would also add that a student that hails from a prominently black high school and home environment is more likely not to feel overwhelmed or 'lost' at a HBCU, and studies show from all grounds of higher education that if the student feels comfortable, the student will perform better. At an HBCU, the expectation of black students will be success whether than survival, because the schools have provided avenues of student success for African Americans for over one hundred years. As the scholar Dr. Cornell West says that "expectations are self-fulfilling prophecies," those prophecies are still coming to fruition at HBCUs.
Another argument for HBCUs would be on the behalf of under prepared students coming into the university experience. Unprepared students need a traditional four year environment because they need to get out of the communities in which they grew up to learn effectively. So advocating that they should go to a community college is without merit. What good does going to class during the day serve if you are dealing with drug dealers and crime on your streets at night? Learning can not be effective in those types of environments. If the argument is that higher learning is a cycle of learned successes, there possibility for success is very low in those environments.
This is not some sort of an empty rhetoric piece for assimilation. This is a recognition of the diversity of each one of us makes the whole society stronger for all. This could be an opportunity to have a 'higher education stress test'. The schools that are no longer up to par can be dissolved into the state college and university system. That way we don't lose students in the shuffle, and we begin the transition to a more effective higher education model in the United States. A model not based on the color of one's skin, but the content between their ears. We must prepare ourselves for an ever-increasing 'black and brown' world and educating the students of color in one house and the white students in another just doesn't make sense. To achieve true racial equality, and not just have diversity departments as tokens for recruiting students or companies (or some superficial program marketing campaign), we need to move beyond our old infrastructure and embrace learning and teaching methods for the next generation. I believe that we can provide an equal opportunity for students at all of our institutions of higher learning. If we do not, we will fail as a society. This needs to be a paramount imperative of our educational system, to know that we can provide equal opportunity and access to all students in higher education without having to specialize with the student's skin color.
HBCUs have been exposed due to a financial squeeze from financial assistance to the students and state assistance to the institutions. Many of these schools do not possess large endowments and the loss of student enrollment cripples the economic outlook for these centers of higher learning. The education received by students that attend HBCUs is another issue for the next generation of learners. Is the learning experience provided by HBCUs adequately meeting the needs of the next generation of leaders? In a worldwide economy, American needs world class education not world class exclusion! The United States is already behind the rest of the world in education, I don't believe we should be separating our talent pool, by the color of their skin.
The opponents of my viewpoint, say that the HBCU is a bastion of academe that still harvest and cultivates black scholars in an environment that nurtures their talents to a greater extent, than at predominantly white institutions. I would say that they are probably correct. I would also add that a student that hails from a prominently black high school and home environment is more likely not to feel overwhelmed or 'lost' at a HBCU, and studies show from all grounds of higher education that if the student feels comfortable, the student will perform better. At an HBCU, the expectation of black students will be success whether than survival, because the schools have provided avenues of student success for African Americans for over one hundred years. As the scholar Dr. Cornell West says that "expectations are self-fulfilling prophecies," those prophecies are still coming to fruition at HBCUs.
Another argument for HBCUs would be on the behalf of under prepared students coming into the university experience. Unprepared students need a traditional four year environment because they need to get out of the communities in which they grew up to learn effectively. So advocating that they should go to a community college is without merit. What good does going to class during the day serve if you are dealing with drug dealers and crime on your streets at night? Learning can not be effective in those types of environments. If the argument is that higher learning is a cycle of learned successes, there possibility for success is very low in those environments.
This is not some sort of an empty rhetoric piece for assimilation. This is a recognition of the diversity of each one of us makes the whole society stronger for all. This could be an opportunity to have a 'higher education stress test'. The schools that are no longer up to par can be dissolved into the state college and university system. That way we don't lose students in the shuffle, and we begin the transition to a more effective higher education model in the United States. A model not based on the color of one's skin, but the content between their ears. We must prepare ourselves for an ever-increasing 'black and brown' world and educating the students of color in one house and the white students in another just doesn't make sense. To achieve true racial equality, and not just have diversity departments as tokens for recruiting students or companies (or some superficial program marketing campaign), we need to move beyond our old infrastructure and embrace learning and teaching methods for the next generation. I believe that we can provide an equal opportunity for students at all of our institutions of higher learning. If we do not, we will fail as a society. This needs to be a paramount imperative of our educational system, to know that we can provide equal opportunity and access to all students in higher education without having to specialize with the student's skin color.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Are you really Taxed Enough Already?
As the April 15Th income tax deadline anxiety rose, a different type of anxiety took shape in many U.S. cities, a grassroots movement called a T.E.A. party (which stands for taxed enough already) was taken to the streets. The TEA Party movement is based on the idea that the federal government is over taxing the citizens of this country out of prosperity and taking away money from people who have worked hard for their wages. I have to add that this is group is composed of nearly an all-white following, which may play a role in their dissolution towards the current government? Are these folks really concerned about the possibility of their taxes going up in 2011 or is this movement really about what they perceive their taxes are going to be funding?
I have to raise the point of concern that a pseudo-mob of middle class and upper financial class demographic displaying their displeasure of American tax policy is a little disturbing and a little funny. The last time I checked, the people that were complaining on April 15Th were the people who composed the policies. The conservative television news stations, particularly Fox News, stoked the fire of the protesters that attended the rallies. Isn't it funny to hear Fox News try to be the voice of the populist movement in this country?
Where were these people the past 8 years? NO wait! Where were these disgruntled Teabaggers the last 30 years? This is not some protest on tax policy. This is another example of the racial dog whistle that gets blown by conservative wingnuts to protest this country's new direction as a whole. The change that these people believe in, would be making this the country for 1920 again. A reminder that the 1920s was a time of extreme inequality from rich to poor, and before the social protections of the New Deal like Social Security and Medicare.
Quotes like this were common place from the T.E.A. parties that took place on April 15Th:
The Teabaggers were voicing their concerns against immigration and unbridled government spending. After the largest deficit increase in American history, kept them on the sidelines, a new type of president gets these folks up in arms and out on the streets. These rally goers are okay with funding a 10 billion dollar a month war where we invade a country that had zero terroristic connections, but they are not okay with school reconstruction and public health care for the poorest Americans that cannot afford it.
The war in Iraq and Afganistan can easily be seen as another neo-crusade for the hearts and minds of civilization. As Pat Buchanan has said "all politics are not local, all politics are tribal". When our tribe of American soldiers were authorized to go invade Iraq, it was immediately regarded as a Christian imperative to bring democracy and choice to the Iraqis.
This entire movement, no matter how rediculous it may seem to the intelligent people of this country, should be taken seriously, because it highlights several important pillars of a still existing American society. The reverberation from the stains of racism and the original sin of slavery can still be felt in this country. Intolerance towards immigrants is not conservatism, it is just a different form of thinly veiled racism that has taken over the far right.
What should the responsible citizens say to the voiced discontent of the Teabaggers? We should say "to hell with your whining!" For the last 30 years this country has been hijacked by deregulation that have conducted wars under false pretenses and have promoted a mindset that is bent on taking America back to the time of the robberbarons. This country is going through a change. It is a change of evolution not revolution. The evolution of pervailing ideas. If the presidency of Barack Obama does nothing in the next 4 years, he is still not a complete failure. President Obama changed this country, he changed the way we observe this country. When we watched the inauguration in January, those waiving American flags from the sea of observers, were our tickets to a new America. This sect of the country that feels like they have lost something, they did. They lost their tickets to their time machine ride of deregulation back to the 1920s. They lost their stranglehold of concentrated power from the hands of a few all white men. They may be taxed enough already, but I hope the mental taxation of the dawning of a new America dwindles their followers.
I have to raise the point of concern that a pseudo-mob of middle class and upper financial class demographic displaying their displeasure of American tax policy is a little disturbing and a little funny. The last time I checked, the people that were complaining on April 15Th were the people who composed the policies. The conservative television news stations, particularly Fox News, stoked the fire of the protesters that attended the rallies. Isn't it funny to hear Fox News try to be the voice of the populist movement in this country?
Where were these people the past 8 years? NO wait! Where were these disgruntled Teabaggers the last 30 years? This is not some protest on tax policy. This is another example of the racial dog whistle that gets blown by conservative wingnuts to protest this country's new direction as a whole. The change that these people believe in, would be making this the country for 1920 again. A reminder that the 1920s was a time of extreme inequality from rich to poor, and before the social protections of the New Deal like Social Security and Medicare.
Quotes like this were common place from the T.E.A. parties that took place on April 15Th:
“We, the taxpayers who pay the majority of taxes, are sick of supporting those who do not carry their load, we're sick of paying to fund social programs to support those who sit and wait for handouts, we're sick of funding businesses whose fiscal irresponsibility has led to their collapse without a bailout. We are trying to send a message to Congress that We the People have had enough.” --Unnamed Protestor
The Teabaggers were voicing their concerns against immigration and unbridled government spending. After the largest deficit increase in American history, kept them on the sidelines, a new type of president gets these folks up in arms and out on the streets. These rally goers are okay with funding a 10 billion dollar a month war where we invade a country that had zero terroristic connections, but they are not okay with school reconstruction and public health care for the poorest Americans that cannot afford it.
The war in Iraq and Afganistan can easily be seen as another neo-crusade for the hearts and minds of civilization. As Pat Buchanan has said "all politics are not local, all politics are tribal". When our tribe of American soldiers were authorized to go invade Iraq, it was immediately regarded as a Christian imperative to bring democracy and choice to the Iraqis.
This entire movement, no matter how rediculous it may seem to the intelligent people of this country, should be taken seriously, because it highlights several important pillars of a still existing American society. The reverberation from the stains of racism and the original sin of slavery can still be felt in this country. Intolerance towards immigrants is not conservatism, it is just a different form of thinly veiled racism that has taken over the far right.
What should the responsible citizens say to the voiced discontent of the Teabaggers? We should say "to hell with your whining!" For the last 30 years this country has been hijacked by deregulation that have conducted wars under false pretenses and have promoted a mindset that is bent on taking America back to the time of the robberbarons. This country is going through a change. It is a change of evolution not revolution. The evolution of pervailing ideas. If the presidency of Barack Obama does nothing in the next 4 years, he is still not a complete failure. President Obama changed this country, he changed the way we observe this country. When we watched the inauguration in January, those waiving American flags from the sea of observers, were our tickets to a new America. This sect of the country that feels like they have lost something, they did. They lost their tickets to their time machine ride of deregulation back to the 1920s. They lost their stranglehold of concentrated power from the hands of a few all white men. They may be taxed enough already, but I hope the mental taxation of the dawning of a new America dwindles their followers.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Only the Children?
This week, President Obama was asked again and again about deficits and spending during his second presidential press conference. We all know that the budget is very important, but aren't there more important issues than bickering over why the president wants spend money to improve our schools and the way we fund health care in this country. What I mean is there are very pertinent issues that plague our country and these issues only mildly even relate to money. My issue was highlighted by the reporter from Ebony Magazine who asked President Obama about children living in poverty in this country, children homeless, and the Hoovervillesqe 'tent' cities that are starting to pop up around the country. President Obama responded that he was "heartbroken" that any child would have to live like this in the world's richest country. He totally missed the point!
We are "heartbroken" for any child who has to live like this? How about any American who has to live like this? The problem we so massively suffer from in this country is a distorted perception of what is okay. It's not a politically winnable argument to feel sad for adults, who have made choices and ended up on the street, but we can cry for the children, because that is politically acceptable. You don't see people with any sympathy for the adults that are having a rough time. These tent cities house more than just children, but mothers with no place to go and fathers that cannot find work to put a roof over his family's head. It is not okay for children or anyone else to be living on the streets in the richest country in the world. We need to stand up and cry foul at the notion that poor people are the nation's losers and don't deserve the same respect as rich folks. Eating healthy food and drinking clean water should not be held as a privilege.
This is not an indictment on President Obama. I have the utmost respect for his political skills and talents, as well as Barack Obama the man. I just feel that part of the 'change' that this country sought out in 2008, is the change of moving beyond what is or has always been politically acceptable to what is right! Change cannot be a slogan or a poster for a campaign, but actual actions in the United States to better represent all folks from all circumstances. The poor folks in this country (some of which are sleeping in tents under freeways) tend to get left out of the change that politicians believe in. That needs to stop, and I'm not just speaking about the children.
We are "heartbroken" for any child who has to live like this? How about any American who has to live like this? The problem we so massively suffer from in this country is a distorted perception of what is okay. It's not a politically winnable argument to feel sad for adults, who have made choices and ended up on the street, but we can cry for the children, because that is politically acceptable. You don't see people with any sympathy for the adults that are having a rough time. These tent cities house more than just children, but mothers with no place to go and fathers that cannot find work to put a roof over his family's head. It is not okay for children or anyone else to be living on the streets in the richest country in the world. We need to stand up and cry foul at the notion that poor people are the nation's losers and don't deserve the same respect as rich folks. Eating healthy food and drinking clean water should not be held as a privilege.
This is not an indictment on President Obama. I have the utmost respect for his political skills and talents, as well as Barack Obama the man. I just feel that part of the 'change' that this country sought out in 2008, is the change of moving beyond what is or has always been politically acceptable to what is right! Change cannot be a slogan or a poster for a campaign, but actual actions in the United States to better represent all folks from all circumstances. The poor folks in this country (some of which are sleeping in tents under freeways) tend to get left out of the change that politicians believe in. That needs to stop, and I'm not just speaking about the children.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Lets blame workers! Wait... who should we blame?
This is a very well written article, but I have to take the other side of this issue up in debate.
AIG's Larceny
Obama ''gets it,'' but Geithner clearly doesn't.
By Dan Gerstein
There have been several articles and columns, very similar to this one, published in the last several weeks. Generally there is a public discourse of anger towards the financial institutions with the ongoing crisis, and those evil people responsible for ruining our economy. How about we look in the mirror to find the evil doers that ruined our economy?
Why are we so angry with the employees? So what that the employees at AIG are receiving a bonus. They had those in their contracts. AIG may be enemy number 1 on the news this week, just like Bernard Madoff was two weeks ago, but no one man, woman, or company derailed our financial system. To simply just throw blame towards the employees at AIG for the collapse of our banking system is just madness. How many people have worked a job, and had to perform a task they did not agree with??? ….. Oh yeah, that is right, EVERYONE! If I worked at AIG, and had to do my job just like all of us out there, and a perk to the daily grind of my job was a bonus of 1k or 5k, at the end of the fiscal year, that makes me a little happier. That just might be a little bit more of an incentive to keep me working. That money will allow my children a few nice things that maybe I couldn't afford throughout the year. Maybe I can afford a vacation with that money, so at least I don’t go crazy from my countless hours at work. Why are we so outraged at regular people that have to work? We all have to work. If everyone was just complaining about the highest level executives, that is an entirely different issue, but they can’t get fired all at once, because if no one knows what they’re doing, AIG will run like the Treasury department.
I find it incredible in this country to see level of executive envy and privilege, and the vile disrespect of ourselves, the everyday professionals. Whether we work at an uptown law firm, a downtown financial institution, a midtown factory worker or anywhere in between, we all have similar goals to provide a good home for ourselves and our loved ones. We just can't sweep this blame towards a few people or factions of our society. This is a failure of tremendous proportions, and we all have had a hand in this some way or another.
The economy was not ruined by people who work at AIG or Bear Stearns or any of the wall street elite. The economy was ruined by a failed ideology, that deregulation and low oversight of the market is good policy. No Wall Street bank or tycoon made the country overwhelming elect Reagan twice, and 2 Bushes for twelve more years at the helm of our country. We are the people that voted for those ideological policies and practices. We have failed us.
Most conservatives will speak of their belief in low government intervention and low taxes will allow individual hard work to triumph, so that individuals will be able to to pull yourself up "by your own bootstraps" with enough hard work and initiative. Now we have broken those bootstraps without a cobbler in sight! Low regulatory oversight and hardly any intervention has left us without a boot to pull up, so we look to blame someone for those broken bootstraps. Who can we blame? Lets blame the workers at footlocker and not government for making sure every shoe sold had to pass certain parameters. Who votes in the government leaders? We do, why are we so angry? We are getting exactly what we deserve. We voted for the people that have promoted those ideologies for the past 30 years. That is the beauty of democracy. Democracy rises and parishes on will of the people. So we can look no further than our ballots for the blame of this mess, not the worker!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Who is going to bring change to Palestine?
We are on the brink of a new age of American politics. Barack Hussein Obama will shortly take office and take a giant step at fulfilling the dream that so many African American men and women has dreamed about for oh so long. Will he be the great leader that so many Americans voted for? I don't know? In time, we shall see, but my question is bigger than the domestic wants for U.S. citizens. With change coming to America, who is going to bring change to the rest of the world's unfortunate. Who is going to bring change to Palestinians?
In recent history, American foreign policy has been a rubber stamp of approval for Israeli political and military decisions. This comes at a price for the Palestinians and their territories, who have perished by the thousands at the hands of the Israeli military invading Gaza. If you look at it this way, Gaza is a prison for people who have never been convicted of a crime besides being Palestinian. 79 percent of the households live in poverty, food and resources are obviously scarce for children and parents alike. Not to mention this is the region's punching bag, or missile test site for Israel; bridges, schools, power plants, and roads are destroyed on a regular basis.
This is not to say that all of the violence is unprovoked. Recently, the strength of the world's third strongest military has been on display in Gaza with their retaliation effort to the rockets fired by Hamas (democratically elected governing body of the Palestinian territories). Sadly, Hamas has decided that it would rather provide its people with bullets instead of butter. Sometimes, it is easier to start a battle than battle your domestic issues, like poverty.
I believe in one's right and ability to defend itself, but where does it end? The latest records display 13 Israelis dead and a staggering 1350 Palestinians, 80% of which were civilian. Since 13 people have died, does that give Israel the right to kill 1300?
In the states, we have heard a lot about change. Change has come to America. The only problem is that change can not just come to America. Change has to come to all those who live without justice. President Obama needs to stand up for more than just American lives and jobs, but stand up for the light in which The United States of America can still shine on the rest of the world. A continuing support of all that is Israel, is not change for those in Palestine.
In recent history, American foreign policy has been a rubber stamp of approval for Israeli political and military decisions. This comes at a price for the Palestinians and their territories, who have perished by the thousands at the hands of the Israeli military invading Gaza. If you look at it this way, Gaza is a prison for people who have never been convicted of a crime besides being Palestinian. 79 percent of the households live in poverty, food and resources are obviously scarce for children and parents alike. Not to mention this is the region's punching bag, or missile test site for Israel; bridges, schools, power plants, and roads are destroyed on a regular basis.
This is not to say that all of the violence is unprovoked. Recently, the strength of the world's third strongest military has been on display in Gaza with their retaliation effort to the rockets fired by Hamas (democratically elected governing body of the Palestinian territories). Sadly, Hamas has decided that it would rather provide its people with bullets instead of butter. Sometimes, it is easier to start a battle than battle your domestic issues, like poverty.
I believe in one's right and ability to defend itself, but where does it end? The latest records display 13 Israelis dead and a staggering 1350 Palestinians, 80% of which were civilian. Since 13 people have died, does that give Israel the right to kill 1300?
In the states, we have heard a lot about change. Change has come to America. The only problem is that change can not just come to America. Change has to come to all those who live without justice. President Obama needs to stand up for more than just American lives and jobs, but stand up for the light in which The United States of America can still shine on the rest of the world. A continuing support of all that is Israel, is not change for those in Palestine.
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