Author: Natasha Sapp

These are people, average Americans who experienced one divorce, one illness, one missed child support payment, resulting in needing food stamps, people…who may even be working and homeless…is who we allow selective news to criminalize, shame, not politicians talking about work who hardly have a day in their lives…Hooray for American values and the American values police.

Equally as important is why we already haven’t put our foot down, haven’t lifted as little as a finger to end the needless death of children, of ordinary people… It’s that we don’t want to get involved… not in the sense of refusing to be flippant about the costs of war, the price of intervention both monetarily and in lives ultimately lost, but in the callous sense of let them solve their own conflict, it’s not our business, it’s not our problem, a let someone else handle it kind of mindset, a we’re too tired of this mentality, we’ve spread ourselves too thin, a we don’t want to sort of way.

Schools are likewise to be places of learning, not just reading, writing, arithmetic, science, music, art, but tolerance, seeing things from a different perspective, gaining knowledge about people different from you… how is any different, any less important?

Similarly it is just as important who is loudest in crying their outrage as it is that watchdogs, viewers are outraged; chief among said groups are people along the caliber of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, of MSNBC’s Morning Joe fame…people like those who cannot digest the change in Miley, who think Mayberry was real.