Langston Hughes said it better than I ever could:Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There’s never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one’s own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That’s made America the land it has become.
O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore,
And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came
To build a “homeland of the free.”

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine--the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!

Mite:

You’re talking about legislation enacted by the 63rd Congress, not the 75th.

Rolling Stone I applaud you, but please be careful the Patriot Act is looming larger by the day…

The counter-revolution to this Republican revolution begins with our winning the election next month.  All aboard, ladies and gentlemen, there’s another world to be won.

Not surprising behavior from Congress really. Deep down they know, they’re the rats

sinking the ship --- they just don’t care --- they ‘got’ theirs.

Another Mark Twain truism, “There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

Our current Capitol Hill-ers refit the latter bill, ‘except an old malign optimist.’

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More Twainers:

“There are people who exaggerate so much that they can’t tell the truth without lying.”

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.”

Clinton said something to the effect that ‘whatever is wrong with America can be fixed by what’s right with America’.

How?

Untill we start voting for people that are neither democrat or republican we are going to end up with the same old mess or possibly worse.  It is time for change and the Republicans and Democrats arent going to change.

Congress (109th) the worst ever? Well that could be discussed extensively. I think if we looked at the 75th Congress we would find the seed planted for the destruction of our U.S., with the creation of the Federal Reserve Act (1913) and the IRS. (1914)
This Congress and its secret agenda have been planning this for 100 years. You see while we little people plan maybe 5-20 years ahead there is a group of Elite and Royality who plan 100-300 years ahead.
Secrecy is their silent weapon against us and over the past 70 years their main objective is to control the information available to the masses. Over the past 100 years we have seen the destruction of our press and total control of the communication media. There is a war to condition us to believe what we see and read as fact.
I was reading something very interesting the other day, called the Journalist’s Creed; by Walter Williams- Missouri School of Journalism.
The main section I thought was interesting was: I beieve...that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible. I believe…

god bless rolling stone.......

.....bout sums it up.

To bad it takes Rollingstone to tell it like it is about the last 6 years(in a short summary anyway). Wouldn’t it be nice to have actual NEWS outlets again? I’m tired of having to read the stuff our media doesn’t speak of in foreign media.

B

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