Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, October 15, 2009
What's happening while you read this blog post (Part I of a series)
As you read this, I’d like you to contemplate just a tiny sampling of what’s happening elsewhere:
A man named Bill is lying in a hospital—close to death—surrounded by family members who haven’t seen him in years. Why? They rejected Bill long ago when he came out as gay. Seated outside alone in the hospital waiting room is a man named George, crying uncontrollably. George has been Bill’s lover for the past six years. However, since he’s not legally recognized as a family member, George is not allowed inside Bill’s room. As a result, the last people Bill will ever see are the members of his family who loathed him and disowned him.
We can’t contemplate justice until situations like this are non-existent…
Such posts often provoke questions as to why I focus on the “bad stuff” about America, the “bad stuff” about capitalism, the “bad stuff” about industrial civilization. I’ll let Dick Gregory reply for me.
As James Baldwin sez: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
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