Whitewashed.

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We are crashing. We're crashing hard. Texas conservatives have won the vote to rewrite history in their textbooks. Not only are they eliminating Thomas Jefferson and instead replacing him with “religious right icon John Calvin.” -Huffington Post, but they are also doing away with church vs. state which is VITAL to the direction our country is headed. They have also decided to drop references to the slave trade and have begun referring to it as the Atlantic triangular trade. Cool! Let's just pretend there was no such thing as the slave trade. Let's just not take responsibility for one of the most hostile, brutal, and inhumane acts in all of human history. Yeah, that's a great idea. The more we erase, the better we appear. Which isn't even true. The more we erase, the stupider we look. The less educated we become. The further back we recede.
Can I just say that America, it seems, has the largest population of ignorant, hateful, oblivious, and uncultivated humans on the planet? And stupid people like to breed more stupid people. They like to teach them ridiculously insignificant information, and this is where our country is headed. White. Conservative. Religious. Hateful. How can we just rewrite history? It happened, there is no escaping that. It's so embarrassing. It's shameful.

I feel like the comment left by Westdale on that Huffington Post article I linked to was very right on:

"We are quite sincerely at a critical hingepoint in history. The country that boasted it represented the standard of liberty for the entire world, and usually lived up to that claim, is disintegrating as the rest of the world watches. I'm Canadian, and the open lies told about our (and others') national health care system by the right-wing/Republican faction are appalling - not just because they are being made but because no one challenges them. Listen, people - it's not just the Texas school book situation, it's multiple facets of your political, social and economic culture. Change it now or a generation in the future the U.S. will be assessed in a similar vein to Botswana and Albania. Really."

Anti Super Bowl

My heart hurts just thinking about this and the fact that this country is continuously going backwards. It feels like I'm at the bottom of the doggy pile just gasping for breath while more people pile on. Alas, accoring to The Huffington Post CBS has decided to reverse their former policy of not allowing advocacy commercials and is now going to be airing commercials supporting pro-life thanks to the right-wing, anti-choice, evangelical Christian activist group Focus on the Family. They plan on starting this by airing these commercials during super bowl. Okay, for starters - really? Super bowl? How is showing a bunch of drunk dudes a bunch of pro-life commercials going to help in any way? Not to say that women don't watch the super bowl, but we all know who it is mostly focused TOWARDS. On top of that, how are commercials going to help at all? I don't know about you, but I've become an absolute PRO at canceling out all the regurgitated jargon that is force fed to us day after day in every way possible. But let me be straight forward about what I'm trying to say here. Evangelical Christians will not EVER change my mind. Just like I can't change theirs.. and this is something we all need to come to terms with. I believe that I have one life and I am not going to spend it by abiding by other people's RIDICULOUS ideas or standards. I will do WHAT I want with MY body and no one is going to stop me. Go ahead and ban abortions - women have revolted against that in the past by starting collectives such as the Jane Collective. We've learned to know our bodies and give abortions and take care of one another because that is what life is about. Support. No magical being, no evil evangelical group, NO ONE will stop that. Not ever. So they can try. They can air their little absent minded commercials without REALLY thinking about the consequences of what a pro-life world would really be like. Teenaged girls having children, molested women giving birth to insectual babies, rape victims not only having to recover to the post traumatic stress and distressing recollections of the event but also being reminded every single day what they went through when they give birth to babies that were painfully FORCED upon them. Jobs are scarce right now, food is NOT abundant and people are losing their homes and living in the streets. What kind of life are they providing for these babies? They try to make it sound so black and white but it's not. It never will be. This country is doing all it can to keep us down, to keep us stuck in lower to middle class and on top of it all, we're in a recession! There's one thing I don't think religious groups understand, women are strong. We're stronger than they might think, and we come together in times of need. This is one of those times of need. And we're coming together to stand strong and voice our experiences and opinions.

More than anything though, I am tired.. no, I am EXHAUSTED of the hateful religious vomit that has surfaced. Telling gays they can't marry, telling women they can't have abortions. Now listen up because I'm going to remind everyone of an important detail in our country's history; CHURCH AND STATE. Remember that? This little DETAIL needs to be RE-established. Re-heard! Fought for and taken care of. There needs to be a revolution between religions, a reminder of what religion is actually all about. Less hate, more love and acceptance and support for one another. This is our best bet. Stand up ladies (and gents!), we need VOICES!

Until then, I'm revolting against CBS.