Staff of President Clinton’s One America Initiative, the Initiative on Race
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Watching the returns for Florida last night was a mixed blessing.
Most importantly to us, Amendment One passed with 75% of the voters in this state approving it.
And thankfully, the elections are over and the dirty nasty commercials are all gone, at least until 2016.
The mixed in this blessing, is that any gains won overnight with the passing of this Amendment and its promise of protecting wildlife, could potentially soon be erased, or at the very least, at the mercy in the next few years, of the new powers to be.
People all over this country are angry, at anyone and everyone in public office.
I, we, do not blame them.
So are we.
Our anger is about the way that this state is being run and those in power here who seem to care little for the things that we value most.
But trying to blame everything that is wrong in this country right now on our President, is wasting time and energy and getting us all nowhere.
What is wrong in America, is NOT all Obama’s fault.
There is plenty of blame to go around.
We are all guilty, one way or another.
Those in Washington, who fail repeatedly to do their jobs.
Those voters who whine and complain, yet do not vote.
Those who write big checks to buy a result for their own personal financial gain.
Plenty of guilt, plenty of blame to be shared.
When no one does the right thing, we all end up with the wrong thing.
Last night’s total political flogging and the resultant prospect of having the country completely run by a single party, may not bode well for the things that many of us care deeply about.
So, for the next two years, Walkingfox and I, as well as many of you, will try our best to watch over those with no voice and keep them from harm.
It is not right for animals and wild places to suffer because people want to make a point, to send a message.
But they are throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Florida and the Country need a lot of fixing and it will take both sides, no, all sides, all of us in America working together to fix it.
As long as we keep blaming each other, nothing will ever get better, it will just continue hurting us all.
Pushing us farther apart and still getting nothing done.
I keep remembering the words that Gandhi said to the father who had lost his child to an enemy.
Gandhi told the man filled with hate to go and find a child of those who had killed his and to raise it as his own, but that he must raise it in the culture and religion of those who killed his child.
If America is ever to recover from this basement, this cesspool of shame and blame that we have fallen into, we must reach out to one another and try to not only understand, but more importantly, to accept our individual uniquenesses.
Those glorious things that make us all so special.
We are not simply Democrats or Republicans, or any political party.
We are all different, we are all the same, we are all One America.
Walking with the Alligators 
Well said or written..
Thank you very much!!
That’s true 🙂
Thank you so much!!!
🙂
I am glad the wildlife protection amendment won the day, Donna! I believe working together is the only way to save our planet from destruction – we can each play our part. However, the ‘divide and rule’ propagandists, who constantly lobby against what is constructive or sane for the future of all living things, only care about their own financial interests. It is in their interests that we argue among ourselves and apportion blame on others, but this is not helpful. If we keep doing this, we are fighting the wrong enemy! We can only try and help more people to see through these divisive messages being promoted by the profit-obsessed and demonstrate that there are many more important things in life than the pursuit of money for the sake of the pursuit of money. I know you will always be a champion for animals and the environment 🙂
What a joy to have your brilliant thinking on an open request for collective co-operation for the benefit of the planet and all that we hold dear.
Thank you Peggy~
Some good folks were elected here in Oregon, and for the most part, the state legislators work together for the good of the state as opposed to narrow political ideologies or wealthy interests whose only interest is becoming more wealthy.
If only…….
Florida is a mess!
You make a good point –
It doesn’t matter whose fault it is
It doesn’t matter how it happened
It only matters that we get together and do it better this time.
AMEN!!!!
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