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Are the timeless matters related to civil rights, racism and abortion issues similar to any degree?

I ask that because President Obama went today to Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, to make a commencement speech on beginning life after graduation with issues of global economy and to receive his honorary degree and at the same time, faced the monumental protest of ending human life.

Notre Dame is one of the largest universities of Catholic origin in the U.S. The Obama Administration accepts abortions but Catholics and many religions do not. Abortion and stem-cell research were the side-line issues today at the Catholic University and protest was a huge action that had been occurring for many weeks with numerous arrests taking place the eve of Obama's visit to Notre Dame.

I am not gong to focus on details of the numerous issues that took place today because the scenario is of the obvious and it has brought a lot of international publicity.

Obama walked in on a hornet's nest and dealt with explosive unrest in acceptance...not resistance. In essence, his speech was from the standpoint "that it is what it is and we need to stop demonizing opposite views." There will always be people of opposite views and do we really expect opposite views to cease? That was my take on the matter and I admire him for it.

Because of the conflict occurring today, I could not help thinking of the many shades of civil rights, racism and abortion issues being similar in protest.

Are Abortion issues as large as racism? I hardly believe they are larger for universal reasons, but in my mind and personal beliefs, perhaps.

Are we ever going to resolve the many issues at large before the final curtain call? I doubt it and many of us throughout the world are continually doing our part to make a difference or not.

Think of what it is like to be an American and have the first African-American President and only approximately 40 years after Martin Luther King's march for freedom and famous speech "I have a dream." As a result, I do believe that a form of healing has already begun.

I am a very idealistic person who has worked in criminal conditions that made me come away in accepting that there will always be crimes in the world consisting of rapes, incest, murder, robbery, drug issues, hate crimes and more. I am not certain where racism and abortion fit as crimes but believe we are a society that is not perfect?

While I am asking, I am wondering if we can compare racism and civil rights to Indian rights? The white man was not totally blameless, nor was he totally guilty. The massacres were ruthless on both sides of the fence. The white man was guilty of taking the land of the Indians along with many ruthless and violent acts but weren't they both guilty? Will the debt ever be repaid.... I doubt it.

I know I am not the first person to address these issues of opposite views but thought I would add, as a point of interest, that racism, civil rights and Indian wars all seem similar in hatred, greed and lack of understanding.

There will always be disagreements and hatred. We can only hope that any change to society will begin with us as individuals. We will be the idealistic person who will make a difference; but as life has it, once we solve one challenge, another one replaces it. That is the hand we have been dealt.

I will not argue the point of life and death matters being larger than any type of racism.

It is what it is?

Let the healing continue and hopefully we can remember that we will always have the extreme and the ignorant. It can be no other way on a physical plane but we can always hope and believe for more....that is our right as individuals and if we manage to touch just one life, it makes a difference.

I post this not as a matter of controversy but merely as a writer's point of view. I have them....you have them. What is a person without a view? It is our freedom of expression.

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» left by Dr Clarence Rucker, Jr from MI (142 days 13 hours ago.)

Very interesting and well put. I must "Ditto" you and your heart of understanding. You stated it very well, "There will always be disagreements and hatred." It appears those that speak of tolerance are fine as long as you agree with them, but disagree with them. Ex: The gays say, "be tolerant of us," but disagree with them??????

The nation’s current require be not heroics, except curing; not curative, but customariness; not uprising, but re-establishment; not anxiety, but alteration; not act, but peacefulness; not the extravagant, but the levelheaded; not hatred, but loving (Laconic: Dr Clarence Rucker).

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» left by Suzy ⁽⁸⁸⁸⁾
Suzy from Midwest-USA (142 days 10 hours ago.)

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and read. That is so appreciated. I believe it was the Civil Rights Movement that got the wheel of change moving in our country. Sometimes, if you are silent about the wrong that is taking place nothing will happen. Unfortunately, some wonderful people lost their lives in the movement, namely, MLK and Bobby Kennedy, who most likely would have become president.

We all have a right to disagree about any matter and that would include the Gay Rights Movement as well.

It is what it is and hopefully there will be less demonizing and more understanding.

Suzy

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Suzy from Midwest-USA (142 days 11 hours ago.)

I add this additional comment that came via e-mail from a friend and former associate:

"As you have stated there will always be people within society who disagree with the powers that be. Happily however, we live in a country where there can be such disagreements, and all can have their own opinion. Also thankfully we live in a nation where if one heavy decision is made it is accepted until a better one comes along."

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» left by Ken McCreless ^(1,815)
Ken McCreless (142 days 5 hours ago.)

"There will always be disagreements and hatred" Unfortunately this is true. Racism is an expression of ones heartfelt inadequacies- always has been and always will be, since the begining of time.

Good job, here.

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» left by Suzy ⁽⁸⁸⁸⁾
Suzy (142 days 1 hour ago.)

Ken, it's good to hear from you again, but on a subject matter not as pleasant. Your coments are appreciated and so true; and can you begin to imagine walking around with the monumental weight of bigotry on your heart and soul? No thank you here.....I do believe that the good out weigh the bad by a large percentage and that is hopeful....it's just those little dark patches that cause so many challenges. Keep on keeping on, Ken, and know that anyone working closely with children are God appointed ~ that has always been my take on it all. Blessings! Suz

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» left by Anonymous (141 days 15 hours ago.)

The final curtain call? Is there such a thing? Abortion and Manifest Destiny? How conveniently general.

What injustice would you focus on if abortion were ended today? Just asking. As a matter of national policy, it seems contradictory that we pick and choose which forms of brutality we arrogantly project onto God as noble, and which ones we arrogantly project onto God as unjust. But, that's how the United States grows the way it does, with a very short memory of itself, where good intentions pave the way to greatness for some, but hell for those who are paved under.

Like, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and a destroyed country called Iraq (and a destroyed economy called the United States). We could prosecute them for abominations before God (war crimes), but the like-minded apologists that accepted their Manifest Destiny (modern Indian-land taking) are still among us in numbers. Better that Rumsfeld is grabbed while disembarking on a German tarmac, and put on trial in Nurembourg. Our moral compass seems to have two hands, which move in opposite directions. This gives the false appearance that at any time, we know where we are headed. This predicament gave rise to the nihilist expression, "Shoot 'em all, let God sort 'em out."

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Suzy (141 days 10 hours ago.)

Thank you for your radical but interesting opinion and taking the time to comment “anonymously.” They are always welcome at Searchwarp. Suzy

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