CAN'T WE JUST GET ALONG?

CAN'T WE JUST GET ALONG?

(Traverse City Record Eagle/Frazer Chronicle)

Wow talk about "déjà vu," or the proof is in the pudding, haven't we seen this kind of attitude throughout our countries history.....don't we learn anything from our fore bearers? First it was the Indians, then it was the Black man, then Japanese, the Italians, the Swedes, the Pols, then the Jews, the Japanese again, and now the Muslims, can't we live in peace and harmony with anybody?

 

I'm sure I've left some down trodden ethnicities out of my above listed races to hate, but rest assured, they will pop up in some other news story, headline or in some blog for people to read, that aligns with their beliefs or train of thought, it never fails.....people always seem to have to have some sort of justification to how they feel with regards to a hatred, or a prejudicial view.....which really is nothing more than another form of hatred.

 

Our latest "hate" object is the "Arab's" from the Middle Eastern part of the world, also referred to as sand ants, or sand monkeys, towel or turban heads. Our society seems never to run out of ways to label the people that ‘we’ don't like; the terms are mostly outlandish and always hurtful as well as degrading.

 

I wonder what these people that we waste so much time labeling, putting down, and hating think of us, the so called dominate race, the Anglo Saxon in the United States, you know.....those Germanic tribes, those peoples who found the 13 colonies, Canada or Australia, along with the Huguenots of France, God's chosen ones.

 

Exactly where did we get the right to judge people of different skin color, different faith(s) or different customs, I mean we do still call the United States "the world's melting pot”.....don't we? Isn't that one of the arguments that people speak of when the talk of immigrants is talked about? Doesn't a sector of our population talk about Mexicans moving to the states to better themselves and their families?

 

Our brand new people to hate, ridicule and attempt to keep "boxed in," the Muslims aren't really as down trodden as some of the races we've tried to keep a boot to.....they seem to have money and want to exercise the power of the green-back to get whatever it is they want.

 

WEST BLOOMFIELD HILLS:

A prime piece of real estate sits in a suburban Detroit area community on a quiet street that hasn't been used for several years. The property used to be the home to children's laughter, games, and the beginnings of the educational cycle that goes on all over America.....it was an elementary school that has, for several years been boarded up and not used for anything.

 

Along comes the Islamic Association who bought the vacant buildings and land for $1.1 million dollars. The association's aim was to turn the former school into a Mosque, or church, so that local Muslims might have a place to pray to their God.

 

Once the news of the purchase and use came out, some locals cried "foul," and wanted the purchase overturned over allegations that the purchase was somehow corrupt and hidden from the public. There is a "foul" here, that is one thing that is true, but the foul is the stink coming from the Bloomfield residence that somehow what the purchase deal voided.

 

Of course a judge dismissed the resident's case, saying that the plaintiffs had no standing to file a complaint, sooooooooooo, the plaintiffs are appealing that decision, and in June there was a call for a grand jury investigation.

 

All manner of allegation has been raised, from waging "stealth jihad" that aims to turn the United States into an Islamic nation, to a secret take-over of certain areas of cities. Of course there also are allegations of close ties to terrorism groups because they are.....Muslim.

 

The mosque deal happened in New York on property that was close to ground zero and the September bombings. Not all Islamic people are terrorists, not all Muslim people hate the United States and our way of life, 99.9 % of these people want to live in peace and worship "their" God.

 

It only takes a few "bone-heads" to disrupt what are peaceful, God fearing people from really becoming active, contributing citizens of the best country to life in, in the world. To these "bone-heads" I can only say one thing, "ppppppplllllllleeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee, get your head out of where you sit," and either rethink your position on race.....or move to another country, like maybe north.....way north, to a pole. I hear there aren't many people of color there.