As I gazed at this adorable picture, I felt peaceful and joyful.  Nature makes beautiful creatures.  Upon first glance I immediately identified each animal on instinct.  I knew that they were all different, yet they fit like pieces of the same puzzle.  They create a certain bond and blend into one another.  The bond is formed by their close proximity and their color.  They are all mostly white with the same hint of gray. In life there is so much diversity, and this caused me to wonder what life would be like to live without diversity.

What would life be like without diversity? Life would be far different.  For one thing, the subject of race would not be discussed, for in each area only one type of creature would live.   What a boring and horrifying image. The thoughts continued like an endless nightmare, until I realized this would never happen.  This could not be real. There would always be a variety of people within every area.  I will always have my friends and though it is obvious at a glance that we are different, but we don’t care.  We look at the picture and we see a family with variety.

My troubles were not over for I recalled something I found treacherous brewing in the midst. Many public schools in LAUSD are going charter.  Some find this incredible, but I find this disastrous.  When a public school goes charter this means that there is no longer a public school for that specific area code.  Charter schools are not supposed to ask you for money, but there are some that ask for mandatory donations.  Charter schools are privately run, and once something is privatized then rules start to change, and tables begin to turn.

The United States is supposed to be like a giant company working for the people.  What American citizens are really doing when they vote is appointing a manager.  This manager must collect the funds supplied to our state or county then disperse the money accordingly.  If our manager is selling land that is supposed to help the people by educating them than they are essentially saying, “We can’t handle this, you can make your own schools and we will just spend education money on something else.”

Charter schools will reestablish behavior that will inevitably lead to segregation.  Not mandated segregation or required segregation, but an established segregation nonetheless.  The rich have already pulled away to high status private schools, the religious to schools of their own religion.  Charter schools are separate, but they are not equal.  The schools located in poorer areas will be under funded.  The schools in areas with a more of a middle class will be much better off.  The people should learn from history and the past.  Plessy v. Ferguson ruled “separate but equal”, but this was overturned by Brown v. Board of Ed, stating that separate but equal does not exist.  Children learn history so that they do not make the mistakes of the past, but the past is repeating itself.

Schools will not be equal.  How can they be when neighborhoods themselves are not equal?  It is no secret that having your house located next to a bunch of apartment buildings is viewed in a darker light than being surrounded by other houses.  What public options will the people have if the schools that were once public become privatized.  How can a private party come in and by up public property?  This property is managed under the government, but it belongs to the people.  Civilians pay taxes to government every year for children to go to school and have schools near home.  People should not be able to privatize what was once public, especially not schools that benefit and teach the young generation how to socially get along in society.

I would not have a problem if more Charter schools just popped up, rising from the ground.  However, this is not the case.  Charter schools are not popping up.  They are replacing schools that are public.  Once the public school goes Charter there is no longer a public school in the area.  Private parties do not need more control.

I want to keep diversity and my family of friends who look nothing like me. All that matters is that being together feels right.  It would not be right that someone with less money would not have a right to the same facilities as people who have more money.  We can all see a difference in appearance, but we need to overlook that difference and see the family that diversity has created.

To think all that came from four little cute animals sitting besides one another for a photo session.

Source:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/cute%20baby%20animals/Kitsukitty/Real%20Nature%20Ref/cute1.jpg

Too many people get away while the rest of the world acts blind in the United States.  The world is a crazy place filled with all different kinds of people.  Some of these people believe in democratic socialist ideas where as others are pure capitalists.  What is a democratic socialist and what is a capitalist?  Democratic socialists ideals are that the people must be taken care of and recognized in society.  Democratic socialists are not all interested in a workers rebellion, instead they wish to reform democracy.  These measures of reform will help the hard workers of society. Capitalists believe in a world where people can evolve and move up. They believe in free enterprise and entrepreneurs.  Capitalists are in favor of laissez-faire and want less government interference in business, along with business incentives and tax breaks.  But capitalist’s have become more than this, they have turned into a get rich scheme in which “screwing the little guy” is acceptable.

Our society would have gone in a completely different direction if the beloved President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not die on April 12, 1945.  In fact on January 11, 1944, President Roosevelt gave a speech, the Fireside Chat.  In this speech he disclosed a new Bill of Rights.

An excerpt from President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat:

“We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.”

-Roosevelt

This second Bill of Rights would give the people more rights than ever before.  United States Citizens would have more than the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.  United States Citizens would have the right to a job; the right the earn enough money for food, clothing, and children; the right to be fairly and justly paid; the right of a businessman to have freedom from unfair competition and monopolies; the right for every family to have a decent home; the right to universal healthcare; the right to a good education.

“All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being. America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens. For unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”

-Roosevelt

Unfortunately for this entire nation, President Roosevelt died before the end of the war and the idea of moving forward died as well.  Instead of moving forward and concentrating on the needs of the people Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.  But that did not stop Japan from moving forward and adopting a version of Roosevelt’s Bill of Rights.  Japan and Germany both have Universal Healthcare.  Somehow the very nations that the United States triumphed in World War II have triumphed in time.  The people of the United States almost had it all, but instead Wall Street and large corporations took control.

These large corporations convinced the people that they wanted to be capitalists.  That capitalism can make a person rich.  It is true capitalism can make certain people rich, but generally the rich simply get richer.  Capitalism is a broken system, “screw the little guy is not acceptable.”  It is time that people wake up and realize that Wall Street doesn’t care about them.  Capitalist’s do not care about anyone, they are in the business for themselves to get rich and they are motivated by money.

The United States can not be completely changed by one man alone.  President Obama is fighting for the people of the United State’s rights, but he is fighting against years of abuse and corruption. The nation has taken a turn in the wrong direction and what it calls for is a complete change in public opinion about what is more important.  Is a get rich scheme more important than an individual’s life? Is that 0.1% chance that you will strike it rich worth your life?  If I did not have health insurance than it is very likely that I would have been dead 5 years ago.  Dead for a simple appendectomy.  Most Americans are not covered by health insurance, and this is the case for those people.  If they get sick then they fall into a pit of debt all because the citizens of the United States of America are holding on to a tiny percent chance of a possibility that they will get rich.  That America is not the way to live.  I am not in favor of socialism, socialism flat out does not work.  But this country desperately needs reform, and Roosevelt’s Bill of Rights is the way to go.  I agree with Michael Moore, “I refuse to live in a country like this, and I’m not leaving.”

Hear President Roosevelt\’s Speech

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism

http://www.capitalism.org/faq/capitalism.htm

http://realignmentproject.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/fdrs-second-bill-of-rights-and-the-progressive-mission/

http://www.mediaite.com/columnists/fdrs-second-bill-of-rights/

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