“I guess Jim misses his family like white folks misses therein. It don’t seem natural...

[WCGreen]

but I guess it’s so…”

These simple words from Mark Twain distill the awakening of a thread of a moral America that, at it’s roots, just want’s everyone to be treated the same, no matter what race, color or creed. In truth, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American morality play that still moves across our stage today.

And yet we know that even though a southern gentleman such as Samuel Clemmons was aware of these changes that were happening, the rest of the country was, and continues to be, still mired in the day to day hatred of people who were different, who stood in the way of “progress”, who just wanted to be left alone.

In the here and now, that hatred of the “other” is played out every day on the radio, every night on the cable TV.

Just look at the uproar caused by Chazz Bono.

But of course, that is the most recent obvious example.

The real danger is, as the brave young people of OWS are saying as I write this, on Wall Street and K Street and all the other streets where backroom deals are made to benefit the few at the expense of the many.

These manipulators of public opinion want us to be pitted against each other in as many ways as possible, to keep us distracted, so that they can stand off camera and continue to steal our future.

I love what those kids are doing and it seems as if they are finally getting a message out. I was fearful that jumble of messages coming from the OWS would drown out the central theme that we are all sick and tired of being manipulated by the supposed powers that be.

But the truth was they always had a simple message. It was the corporate media that was trying to present this protest as just another example of those crazy World Trade protestors with their puppets and mixed messages.

These idealistic kids, young people would be more apt, are there and ready to bear the weight that they have volunteered to take on.

I wish I was a younger, healthier man because I would hit the streets.

But as it stands now, all I can do is realize, like Huck Finn, that things have changed and these youngsters, willing to man that brigade, are the future.

For better or worse.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Distraction is key to what those Wall Street barons want for us...

Or perhaps bread and circuses...

Or maybe even keeping us upset over things like gay marriage and abortion.

Just nearly anything to keep us from realizing what they are doing to us.

And to get us to vote against our own best interests.

The future should always belong to the young people, and I'm grateful that these intelligent, active kids are doing what needs to be done, to redeem the future for everyone...

Well said, Chris...

[WCGreen]

2. Thanks Peg....