When I was a kid I fondly remember my social studies class. They called it social studies but it was really history for milddle-schoolers. The difference between social studies and history class was that the historical narrative was a bit more fluff than fact. I remember all those stories of men and women who had gotten tired of their governments constantly ignoring their rights in order to promote a more press worthy agenda. People rallied and rioted and stuck up for what they believed in. Today we have issues with health care, insurance and credit card companies after our wallets, and education costs that keep the best of us paying school fees into retirement age. It’s crazy… but why aren’t we doing anything about it? Where are the history book heroes to step in and save the day? Whose going to tell me what to think so that this constant barrage of my freedoms doesn’t feel so painful? What happened to the buffer between everyday American living and the harsh realities that only third world countries have to live?
This all sounds so politically incorrect, but honestly, why aren’t we standing up for what “we the people believe in?” What will it take for us to roll up our sleeves, get off the couch, and be our own heroes?
I recently ran into a website that addresses all of these thoughts and feelings. Check out the video and if you love it as much as I do visit the website. We’re not in middle-school anymore where history is a narrative we daydream about from the sidelines. The injustices we are tolerating today are factual. And if we don’t change them, what will our kids and grand kids read about our America when they open their history books? I want them to see what I saw when I looked at young America: a land of activists, of people who believed and weren’t afraid to address things like the inequalities impressed upon LGBTs, or the still sickening fact that minority women get payed less just because, or that we were too lazy to do something about the lack of Faith in our dwindling Christian society. Check out the links and agree that instead of being silent we should all be Mad As Hell.
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Crystal, loved this post because it is politically incorrect and makes you think. I think it is about time that people got up out of their chairs and got mad. Imagine what could be done then?! Watch the Mad as Hell video people – it’s really gripping…