Maybe Sowal could become a little Kauai! Chicken with a view
The thing about politics is very interesting. Do you vote with the people? Do you vote for the money that gets you elected. Do you vote your own personal truth? I think they voted for the people and with their hearts on this one. I really could see the anguish.
Teresa, I really have to disagree with you about the vote. African Americans were allowed to speak over and over. Some spoke clearly. Some spoke with emotion. Some spoke with reason. Some spoke with truth. They covered all the bases to remove the flag. Yet they are a minority in this county and do not speak for the people. I have been in minority situations and you have to accept that your opinion will not count as much as the majority opinion. That is democracy. Are you saying that democracy is flawed in that way and it saddens you? Are you saying that African Americans are so unrepresented that it saddens you? Somewhere you have missed the point because we do have an African American President for two terms. Help us understand why it saddens you so when you hear African Americans speak. I feel the same way when I hear a Native American speak yet they do not seem to harbor such anger at the system even though it was the purpose of this democracy to destroy their population and culture (slavery was oppressive but not to the same extent as what white America did to the Native Americans). I could understand the sobbing in thinking about the Native American child asking their mommy "why does the white man want us to die or go far away on some barren lands".
