I've Had Enough...

[For Freddie]

190. My Post

I just posted my thoughts on this,also, under Split Party.

I am old. 70... I've seen it all.Lived much of history first hand.
I met Eleanor Roosevelt when I was 12.
Lived Civil Rights/Peace/Environmental Health with Pete and Toshie Seeger/got a Home Health certificate and worked directly with AIDS/and homeless addicts.
Did 10 years in animal rescue. Now reworking Civil Rights.
Was one of the ones that formed the Feminist Club at St. Cloud U in the 1970's.. So... like you I have had enough too.

I have a BIG and diverse family. Kids on the street.
My focus is much more life and death in real life.
I do not have the time or energy for hair on fire freak outs.
The concept any president or elected official has all the power to change everything and make life what we want, with Teddy Bears and Chocolate coming from heaven, is a luxury of youth and or just plain ignorance.

We who have been around a spell and been through this dance a time or two must focus our energy now. Wisdom and experience is needed.There is so much dis-information to blow out of the water.

Long ago I wanted to work for the Urban League as a lawyer.
So I went into Pre-Law at St. Cloud after finishing my Art/Art History major. I taught art for a spell at the prison there.

Then I was entranced by the beginnings of profiling and Forensic Criminology in Justice Studies at St. Cloud under Dr. Robert Prout.
This helped me a great deal get real about politics.

I was raised in a Sicilian neighborhood in Jersey.
I understood how privacy rights, 2nd amendment issue really worked on the street. There was none. Everyone did what they had to,to survive. It shocked me college how many white middle class folks had so many illusions as to how the world worked or was "supposed to work". Those illusions are still afoot in a disruptive manner.

I lived the Civil Rights movement in urban New York in the 50's and 60's. Street, non-white street life, has a way of waking one up to what is real,Living through "riots" and the MLK outrage. Then Bobby.

So... I try to state my Path here in a grounded way.
I am glad to find another grounded adult.
The pragmatic Minnesota male is a critter I greatly appreciate.
Thank You... But we must be patient and strong with the young ones. Raising a houseful of them has helped me.
Thank You for your writing.