Monday, April 16, 2007

Our Violence (Virginia and elsewhere)

I am in tears because of the news and at first I was surprised, like I was one certain September. But, now that I’ve had a minute, I know where this stems from and that we shouldn’t be surprised. Every time this happens we blame violent films, parents, terrorists or whatever other rhetoric has been made popular. The fact is that all of it is to blame and most importantly WE are to blame. No one can agree on gun control and it shames me that the first statement our idiot of a president (I refuse to capitalize it) makes in regard to children getting murdered is that we have a right to bear arms but we should use it responsibly.

What is responsible, mister bush? Are we responsible when we demean our culture to half-naked women who would rather have a firearm as a prosthetic than to be strong in more human ways? Is it responsible when we send children to kill children overseas? Is it responsible when we call people who defend themselves terrorists and then blame such terrorists for our own irresponsibility with our own children on our own soil at the schools we made?

Guns and bombs are bad. They have endangered our animal friends, they have polluted our soils and they do not defend anything except the destruction of all that is good in the world. And by the way, while I find bush’s words totally offensive, I do not blame him for this. I repeat, WE are to blame. We have allowed our country to occupy the lands of peaceful people so that we can exploit them. Why do you think we are eating ourselves from the inside? Why do you think that we have repeated massacres such as this one? Don’t think that once this idiot is out of office all will be well. What we’ve done did not occur in eight years time. It has been there since we stole the beautiful fruit of Africa. And it will continue to be with us until we just admit it. The U.S. is a violent nation. We invade peaceful peoples and their rich lands, and this is driving our population to madness. We will be sick until we admit what we’ve done and apologize for this sick, sick rape of our Mother Earth and her children.

I do know that many of us want to make reparations, to African Americans, to the countries we invade, to the children we neglect, to the victims of gun and war violence. I know this because there is a tax protest. I have a previous blog about that. Unfortunately, our government is suing tax protesters. I will be watching the results of that lawsuit closely, and taking notes.

I should also mention that Toro, the amazing poet and my husband, writes of our self-destruction in his yet unpublished Gods and Guns. Many of you have heard his epic poem "From Big Bang to Columbine," which is part of this collection. He often wonders why this work hasn't been published yet and I can only say that it is because no one wants to admit the truth, especially when it comes from the mouth of a Puerto Rican. I am honored to direct you to his link at the sidebar of this page. I also think it is no coincidence that he and I now live in the state that spawned our idiot leader and that spawned the two previous massacres of this type (in Killeen, Texas and at my sister school, UT-Austin). Pray that God uses us to promote change and healing in this injured place.

Share with me, peoples, share. Cuz I needs ya.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would someone, anyone, just start pushing buttons so that others will start pushing buttons, and then we can all just kiss our dumb asses goodbye already? Seriously, this Earth needs some precious quite time!

Drew

beluvid ola-jendai said...

more notes frum faces at tha bottom uv tha well. nihilism & apathy r no real option. & even protest has its limits. we ae need fa a cultural shit. a reorientation. a reeducation. knowin too. that even this violence that begets more violence. will react violentli ta that. tha answers will not cum easy. eyem wif u tho

Unknown said...

Hi Grisel You speak the truth, but the trouble is that there are few out there who either know what the truth is, or can bear to hear it. The t.v. generation has spawned a whole nation, and beyond, of conditioned minds. The truth gets lost in the filtration process. They call this the worst massacre in our nations history, that in itself is a perpetration of one of the most humongous lies ever. We slaughtered a nation of natives to this soil to start the so called land of the free. Every time one of the hens comes home to roost, the brain-dead throw up their arms and wonder how this senseless act of violence or that senseless act of violence could have occured in our " peace-loving " land. I sorta have to agree with the other posters, this place needs an enema, yet there is so much beauty out there in the nature that surrounds us, but it's too decidedly bling-less to attract the media attention it deserves, there is plenty out there to assuage our battered souls, but anything that can't have a cut and dried price tag affixed to it and taxes charged is relegated to useless status. Gotta go now peace peace peace peace peace to you and Toro Joe Jacovino

Children with out voices said...

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." The weakness resides in the seed of evil, for when a person is at their weakest moment, is when the seed of evil germinates and grows.