Our Shameless Elders
Written by redqueeninla in Education
What is it with babyboomers and their parents that they should express such shameless contempt for their youngers? The spectacle of protestors old enough to be my parents barring political respite for the destitute and desperate zero-somethings in Murrieta this week is enough to make me want to send up flares of apology to the whole world. Generating refugees can be understood to be an act of war, but one does not mete out punishment among its innocent civilians: take that up with the aggressors. These children and families are the innocent collateral damage. It is the fault of our entangled governments that bear responsibility — and blame — for this situation.
In the meantime, whatever happened to Matthew’s formulation of a BlessedMeek who were slated to inherit the earth?. Oughtn’t America’s Christian righteousness dictate benevolence? What manner of monster would treat children so?
It’s the same sort of savagery evident in our depauperized district school budgets across this entire fair land of ours, as it happens. The disdain is not reserved for foreigners of sepia’d skin. It is dispensed with equal vigor among those of domestic persuasion of any skin hue inhabiting a non-trending, non-”choice” school of the public district variety.
Simply put: In hoarding resources our Elders disavow younger generations. Today’s domestic public district school children face the same slathering denialthat the unfortunate youth trapped in today’s Murrieta-San Ysidro axis Our Shameless Elders – redqueeninla:
