Quote (Ghot @ Jun 5 2018 08:17pm)
Freedom w/o laws is anarchy. No one, anywhere is really free. We all just do the best we can with the laws we have.
We can spend our lives railing against them or try to go with the flow.
I'm constantly amazed that minorities (for lack of a better term), can't get past the fact that they aren't really minorities. They are Americans.
There is no such thing as African Americans, Indian Americans etc... There is just Americans.
No one can change the laws in the US unless they first embrace those laws and work the change they want, within those laws. The days of revolutions in the US are long gone.
You can spend your life trying to fight city hall, or you can join city hall and work for the changes you want to see that way. You won't see them in your lifetime, this country is too big for that.
The best you can do is work for your children or grandchildren.
Like spotted elk? a man of "peace" and compromise for his people and children
adapting to a lack of freedom choosing to please the white government for survival
, disarmed and slaughtered in the snow with unarmed women and children
1890 may seem forever ago to you
chains may seem forever ago to you
rights may seem forever ago to you
but to those communities still affected by injustice and abuse, still raising babies in the conditions they inherited, still facing crooked ass authority employed by a broken ass system it all seems like yesterday