Privilege

So much of today’s news media centers on privilege. The privilege we have is the freedom found in the United States. It is something that is denied in many other countries. “All men are created equal” a concept taken from the Bible and reiterated in the Constitution of the United States of America. It’s a privilege often misconstrued, overlooked, or completely ignored, but it shines forth like a beacon when compared to countries with systems based on castes or countries where privilege is based on a person’s gender. It is why so many human beings attempt to come to America; they seek that privilege.

Created equal is the starting point. What a person does from that point in their life is not based on race or sex. I know there are those who will point out examples of black poverty, white poverty; city slum areas in cities and pockets of disparity in pockets of rural America. Both people have to contend with extreme poverty, with less than quality education, drug usage, high suicide rates and in day today struggles. Instead of trying to solve the underlying problems, politicians have a tendency to point them out, not in attempt to lessen them, but to further divide and exaggerate the differences to promote themselves and hold sway over them, much like feudal lords once held over serfs in medieval times.

There are more privileged people, those who are live in a stable, two parent home, where a mother and father raises and supports a child in a nurturing manner. So many things have a tendency to intervene: divorce, domestic partnerships, stepparents dividing the children between several homes, etc. But the largest and most devastating attack on the family has been the attack on the family unit by the government when it steps in to be the daddy.

Our government actually encourages the father to leave the home, then subside a single parent home. Men are able to spread their seed with little or no repercussions or responsibility. Women have accepted the male lies of free sex without consequences. Chastity and protection from conception is not a necessity with the availability of free abortions and if they decide to carry the child to delivery, no problem, Uncle Sam with become Daddy Warbucks.