Friday,Dec 19 2008, 12:30:59 PMTear Down the Walls

Tearing Down the Walls Recommitment in 2009

By Dennis S. Murray Sr.

 

Socially Disadvantage communities and our youth future have taken another hit backwards in our nation from 2000 to 2008. What does 2009 hold for a nation plaque by racism, discrimination, and social injustice against our youth and our communities?  Communities, youth, and families have continuously battled to feed their families and keep control of what is going on in the schools system at home   and in their neighborhoods. As I travel through the Southern Bible Belt states and across the Midwest, I continue to see the same old problems in this trillion-dollar nation that we live in call America.  Gas prices are off the roof, imports are still overwhelming our income, homes, and the price for life has taken us to foreclosure, while the rich continue to get richer and the poor stay socially disadvantage and under-served. The nation has lost its way due to the default of the American people judgment and values that have created insensitive Politian’s which have not stood for  the people that have elected them.

 

However, we can only fault ourselves the people that put these individuals in office. We can’t blame anyone except our selves, for the mess in this country. Our vote for the right wing conservative politicians or politicians has gotten us in this mess.  The problems regard foreclosures are due to the people not working and not having the proper finances to get through everyday life, jobs-income. If you don’t have money you can’t pay anybody. We can’t blame it totally on greedy banks that don’t help the community where their customers are because we allow it. We need to make these banks accountability for being in our neighborhoods. Too much money coming in ,and not enough going into the communities that these Banks are serving.  We need to take ownership of poor judgment with the services of corporations and financial institutions that want to be in our neighbors. Many of these companies build in low –income areas but do nothing to revitalize the community except build high income homes to move out low-income families.  The fault lies in the community for allowing these our government officials to have the power over us as they bail out big corporations and allow families to continue to struggle to feed each other.

 

Foreign influence controls our lives and the government gives permission to big business to take our jobs out of this country and leave us to homelessness, crime, and despair.  Lou Dobbs of CNN has continued to express his concerns on helping the people of this country and has asked the Administration to reach out to the people. We as a nation are not demanding anything of our government and allowing our government officials and CEO’s to rap this country blind and them take it oversees for big profits.  We as a people don’t share the same agenda to help one another and to keep our child safe as Dr. King work so hard to make these changes in America and the world. What can we do if anything to savage a problem that the state and local law makers don’t want to touch?

 

Discrimination is an insult to a nation with people of all colors and values, but we still continue to divide our true principles in life. Not Caring!

 

Due to the growing Billions spent in Iraq many of our citizens and veterans are left homeless with a Trillion dollar bill that becomes a taxpayer’s nightmare.  Everything is affected by this war in Iraq but our Politicians move on to the next phase of their lives and continues to rake in the money from their interest with big lobbyist.  Our Administration has become billionaires in 8 years and has continued to rap the country blind.  The money that corporations and our politicians are getting from big lobbyist and contracts like Halliburton for Iraq and Afghanistan is a shame. This Administration is and has been out of touch with mainstream America needs.  Taxes cuts for the rich only help the rich.  The rich continue to get richer and the other class of Americans in this country continues to lose everything they have worked so hard for. It’s a lot talk about helping the American people but people in this country need immediate help not a lot of talk.

 

CNN and other network broadcasting news stations are having discussion about the economy and how the failing government can bailout big banks like Bear Stearns and watch politician raise millions of dollars to become the newly elected President of the United States, but we can’t help the American people in New Orleans or get books in our dilapidated schools.  Why does it cost so much to become President only to rap the people of this country once again. Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and Senator McCain has spent millions for a campaign while the economcy is falling to it knees. It’s a shame that they along with the rest of those Senators spend billions of dollars for a race that only helps the rich. Shouldn’t you be tried of this kind of politics?     

 

Minorities especially Black African American people in this country have been discriminated against for more then 400 years, yes, slavery ended but discrimination has went on and on. The unemployment rate is double when it come to African American and that has been the problem sense slavery. African Americans are continually getting the shaft on the jobs, better schools, and within the community that they live in.  Poverty in our communities is growing like a plague and the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, yes you have heard this before. The community and outreach centers for the under-served community have gone and we haven’t replaced them, only to see empty and vacant buildings only to be torn down and sold to developers, while watching developers buy the land and build new homes that are out of reach financially for that community which is being displaced.  Poor people just don’t have an advocate with enough muscle and power to make a change in America.

 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died in 1968 because he was the advocate for the under-severed (poor people) and they kill him for it. Dr. King was struggling to change how people look at one another. Blacks living in New York or white people living in Mississippi or Kentucky without Health care is no different when it come to discrimination. It’s being poor. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought to tear down the walls for injustice. He fought for equality and fairness but the rules change rapidly and many of the issues he fought for went underground. Yes, we have had some strive in equality but it hasn’t fixed a broken people yet in this country.

 

Washington, DC and the power to be continued work the same way they have been for decades, but we as a people can make changes among our own lives to help one another and to cherish the values that we have in our families for this nation.    

 

The USDA National Statistical Service and U.S. Census Bureau, provides statistics of despair indicating a decrease in minority farming, loans, home buying, the list goes on and it continues to get worst. You don’t need to have a degree in Business, Agriculture, or Mathematics to see that American minorities are hurting and no one cares. Just go to your local business and see the disparity among professional jobs, with Black-man/women, Hispanic-man/women and other minorities that make up this rich nation of our. The prices that the poor people pay is astounding and it is going to get worst everyday.

 

In 2006 the Forbes Magazine posted it Forbes 400 Billionaires in this country.  We should have people in this country that has exceeds the rules, but when it come at the expense of the people doing the work that a shame. Many of these Billionaires became wealth because someone else did the work and they capture the riches by providing the management, guidance’s, and money to get those riches. But we need to continue to help those that are less fortunate and help them achieve they goals as well.            

 

However, discrimination has continued to knock the doors down and others out of business. There has been a lot of celebration in the 20^th century for many reasons, Civil Rights moments, and the death of Reverend Dr. Orange a civil rights leader, the opening of the Rosa Parks Museum, and the 40^th Anniversary of the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee and the list goes on. We should have leaned a lot sense Dr. King’s death but the walls of injustice are still a part of African American people and it needs to be torn down and rebuilt so that social structure or reorganization is done. Our society continues to put-up walls so our low-income American can’t survive in an industry that make Trillions for some. Although racism and discrimination was even stronger them it has not lost any wind sense 1968.

 

Tearing Down The Walls should have been our first priority in the 20^th Century but we are 4 months into the 2008 fiscal year and 2009 is staring us down.  We should turn up the heat and eliminated the Walls that divide us. The power brokers in this country need to change how they look at poverty and not shove it under the carpet. Many of these issues are continuing, growing problems between our country and we as a people need to continue the battle and make our leader accountable. Discrimination can be reformed by understanding the anger that has interrupted the progress for success.  We need to reposition our values that fuel these problems and stand-up and fight for equal justice for all, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did for All. His fire has always been in us, let’s not give it back and fight for our rights.