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Wow. Housing discrimination. Still illegal. Same-sex marriage. OK. A weak but necessary version of national health care. Here to stay. The killing of 9 souls at Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston. Historic wildfires in Alaska. The apparent demise of a too long standing symbol of the noble cause, the confederate flag. This is a big country with so much diversity.<\/p>\n
Enough news to fill a month, even a year. All the in the last two weeks. And today:\u00a0Woman takes down Confederate flag in front of South Carolina statehouse<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n In my lifetime I have seen a moon landing, a photograph of our home planet from space. I’ve seen the computer grow as a versatile tool for so many things I could never have imagined. An international space station orbits the planet. Cell phones (hand held computers) are common. I have participated in protests of the Vietnam War and in many political movements from the local to the international.<\/p>\n Never would I have imagined that same-sex marriage would be the law of the land. Never would I have imagined that there would be even the most basic of national health care policies. I could have imagined the continuing bang, bang, bang, bang of racist shooters, bringing lynching up to date with the time of the gun. Never could I have imagined southern political leaders, conservative ones, too, arguing for the elimination of the stars and bars as a public image of certain southerner’s pride. Never. Never though could I have imagined the picture posted here, of a young black woman’s pre-dawn decision to just take the damned thing down in South Carolina.<\/p>\n History is a river, a flooded river that washes over us all, at every moment, carrying us and those we love to the great ocean of memory. This was a week of historical flash flooding. Glad to be part of it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Healing Moon Wow. Housing discrimination. Still illegal. Same-sex marriage. OK. A weak but necessary version of national health care. Here to stay. The killing of … Continue reading History is a River.<\/span>