A crime against us all.

I don’t ever wanna be oppressed. Especially by society.  And I find that means  letting people know that I won’t stand for being held down/back or deprived of my rights. Especially my human rights.  My dignity. That was the big mistake made by blacks in America. They were far too accommodating.  For generations. They submitted to the white power structure. And more or less accepted status as second class citizens. Even as less than full-fledged human beings.  Indeed, it was a shameful act by the white majority. But even shameful to a degree was the fact that it took so very long for blacks to fight back. Effectively. Black people really became pissed to the point of effective militancy in the 1960s. But it should have been much sooner. As far back as the 1760s. Slavery was just as obscene then as it is today.   Of course, it’s easy for a white man like me to say ‘Throw off the shackles and don’t take subjugation any more.’  I haven’t been the oppressed one. I haven’t been enslaved. I’m white. And that has given me advantages. A much easier life than if I were black. But I’m beginning to feel subjugated. Enslaved. As a member of the American middle class. And I’d feel even more so oppressed if I were poor. There’s an obscene gap between the rich and the poor. Not only in America. But all over the world. And something has to be done about it. A revolution perhaps.  We poor people and middle class have been far too accommodating, too accepting of the rule of the rich.  The millionaires and the billionaires. The ungodly, greedy capitalist corporations.  It ain’t right. It’s morally wrong. It’s a crime against us all. Against society. Against the common good. –Jim Broede