RE: Day 821: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: fresh air

Thank you for the next prompt -- got it done, parts one and two ...

"Oatmeal"
The Continuation

As for voting ... yes, the system IS rigged, but, I find it of help to vote for those into whose faces I can get ... local and congressional ... you get results when folks know you are nearby to hold them accountable ...

As I was sharing with some folks on Facebook today -- although the history and continuing struggle of Black people is unique in America, the plain fact is that when any person of any race gets poor enough and cannot get out because of age or illness, they find out that much of this nation sees him or her as chattel to be moved about, experimented on, and eventually eliminated by various means since he or she is now judged as having no other value and is taking up resources that could be plowed into "the better sort's" profits, to put it in James Madison's own terms in the Federalist Papers no. 10. That particular slave owner andauthor of the Constitution truly saw all those not of his class only as a threat, a threat to keep divided and weak so that men of his class could remain in charge and receive all the wealth they could extract from EVERYBODY -- he wrote that HIMSELF, and the only reason EVERYBODY doesn't feel it as much is because he was forced to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, with a proviso that further amendments could be made. Almost all the rights we take for granted are in the amendments that Madison did not see as necessary -- and even those do not account for YOU and ME, two women, one Black, having ANY rights! That is how the nation is HARD-WIRED. Still, I vote as a small part of a more robust work in my locale ... since it is there to use, I pull the lever, and then keep working ...