This is our country now

[Solly Mack]

7. That's been America for a while. People are just more open about it.

It's a sad state of affairs and continues to be so.

Authority doesn't shoot unarmed people in the street and not hold the capacity to remove a woman from her wheelchair in an effort to pretend she's a threat. Point being, authority in America has always been a placeholder for those who look for reasons to be cruel to others. Not all - but far too many - and the guilty includes those who act and those who remain silent.

A woman simply protesting for the right to live against corrupt members of Congress who would strip her of her very life - and people in uniform all too willing to aid in the effort.

Obama offered a brief reprieve from the very worst - but it has always been there.

The oppressed and marginalized of America have always known this.