Dear friends,
We need a national literacy campaign in this country. After
all, good reading comprehension will allow the populace to engage in the
sharing of ideas, while simultaneously deepening the mental stamina of our
citizens.
People often think of stamina in terms of its physical sense
- such as running the marathon. Yet, we can increase our thinking capacity, so
that we are able to understand phenomena more deeply. Obviously, the poorly-educated
jurors in many cases have very low levels of mental stamina. As a result, the
decisions made by the aforementioned jurors have more to do with their personal
insecurities and inadequacies about their inability to reason. Conjoined in a
small herd or group, it is then easier for them to live with themselves.
Nevertheless, the prosecutors jurors and witnesses all
lacked integrity, as well as intellectual capacity, in the George Zimmerman
case. And this is the real dilemma.
The issue of “race” obscures the more relevant problem of
the huge identity crisis in this country. I mean, living in a market economy
that is based upon people using one another as a means to an end, as each
member of society strives to be the best personality/latest model for
consumption, for either whoever or whatever reason, makes the notion of “race”,
as it were, simply another excuse for people to gain both self-worth and
societal worth at the expense of their fellows.
Let’s face it. The kind of impropriety that the Martin
family is facing happens all over the world, on all five of the peopled continents,
ALL IF THE TIME!!!.
Finally, those who are the most culpable for human suffering
today are ruling classes, in collusion with the governments that they sponsor- governments,
by the way, that are themselves legitimized, not by the vote, but through the
threat capacity of their police and military.
And so we must build genuine communities, as species beings,
where we are able to embrace the humanity of which we are all capable.
G. Djata Bumpus
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