Not Fair and I Care

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RD Larson

Not Fair and I Care
Dec 18, 2003

Oh yeah. Christmas. It’s so so sad. Can’t sing about the Baby anymore. It’s not politically Correct, RighT? Or am I LefT?

Guess what I did in the FOURTH grade? I sang “Faith of Our Fathers” in history class, and George Washington’s picture was on the wall and it was okay. It made me proud to be an American.

NOT only that, I was an elf and a Wiseman in the Christmas play. Some of the kids in my class were Jewish and some were other religions. We even had a kid from Latvian. So what? We are a Heinz-57 varieties of Americans and I say we should just tolerate the differences in color, religion and music. But not tolerate to the extinct of one group. I think maybe that’s happening to a few groups.

Hallmark will fail and the Post Office will finally go bankrupt if we don’t have this big push for fun at the end of the year. I’m so tired of having everything homogenized and scrutinized for the least little thing that I’m about to go to bed and miss the whole thing.

So answer me this? Who is God? Got your own private picture or meaning, huh? So does everyone, the whole world. What if each person’s private picture doesn’t fit with anyone else anywhere? Your rights end when they stop my rights. Didn’t you always hear that?

Where are the teachers that use to say that? Keep your hands to yourself. Don’t say things that will hurt another person. Respect other’s rights. To your own self be true.

Things are getting dumped. Somebody better do something. Me? I’ve got the pen, mightier than the sword, so I do what I can. Let’s keep our heritage and our past alive and not just roll over. If you want to sing “Away in the Manger” with the Dahli Llama, do it -- I bet he’d understand. If you want to put lights on your house and you can afford it, do it. If you want to tell everybody, I’m too poor to buy presents but here’s a poem I wrote, that’s your right, too. Let’s stick up for our rights.

I gotta go. My cat’s changing channels on the TV. He’s trying to make me watch Animal Planet. But tonight, I’m watching a Christmas show.

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