The Real American Majority

 I am here this morning. I am listening to the birds chirp, praying war will cease around the planet. But until then, I will write. There’s so much history that we have to face. We have to face the inequities and we must better understand each other. Every day I learn more of the struggles of people facing problems with their neighbors, warring parties, distanced from each other – polarized – unable to love each other, the solution to this human experience called suffering. But love requires work. We must work to understand each other. We must respect the fact we have our differences, but we must accept what is unjust and work to change it. Right now in America, it is a massive undertaking to get the Voting Rights Act passed in Congress. We are seeing a dismantling of the right to equal vote. There are remnants left over from the horrid Jim Crow laws of the 1900s including preventing Blacks from voting. Black people have a loud voice when they are voting and many states are preventing that from happening by enacting arcane laws requiring identification that is extremely hard to obtain before allowing them to vote. Also, the overseer of elections across the states is the Secretary of State. This position is constantly being corrupted by people trying to prevent fair elections with promises to make the election in favor of Republicans, former President Trump, and the rest of the Grand Old Party, the GOP. Old is right. This party may have once held democratic values that fought for equal rights over the land but have long shed those days of justice work. Now, particularly since Trump, more and more conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, and insurrectionists are coming to power all to stop the power of minority voting. This includes Indigenous Americans who continue to fight for land rights, Latino Americans continuing to fight for equal rights - particularly fair housing and worker’s compensation and overall legitimacy, and Asian Americans fighting discrimination as if they were not important to the foundation of this nation in helping to build it and the LGBTQ community fighting for fairness and equity in schools, businesses and home life. You see, in America, all these issues cross over each other and all minorities feel these issues. And white America also feels the pain of poverty, lack of healthcare, and homelessness. Progressives are fighting for all people. We must win or we will continue to fall into the deep pit of a few Republicans from very small populations dictating to the entire country how to live. They have taken the power and they will do anything to hold onto it, even corrupt our basic right of voting. We must fight against this bullying that has held up progress in America for many, many decades. We must fight for our right to vote. Taken away, we lose. Badly. And more deaths from poverty, lawlessness, and authoritarian rule are bound to happen. I stand with this current administration fighting hard to care for the American people. But their work is difficult because the judicial branch is now leaning towards conservatism in a way that seems to award the bad behavior of the Republicans. Occasionally we will see fair rulings, but now we don’t know. We are very concerned that what we have is a situation where the very small wealthy individuals who profit from an authoritarian rule are dictating to us all that we do not deserve our human rights and a just government. American politics can get messy, but with careful watching and reading, it can be understood. But for too long voices of minorities in America – Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latino – have been censored because in fact with progressive whites together, we hold the majority. And a few people try to take that away. It isn’t fair and we work hard to change things. There are many soldiers in the fight for justice. But as with the Tulsa, Oklahoma Massacre of 1921 and many other massacres of thriving black communities that gained wealth and prosperity, there have been unjust white people ready to tear them down. But there have always been white abolitionists fighting alongside people of color and I work with many of them today. My fight is not just a black fight. It’s a fight of many. And we will continue to fight. It is just too important.