What Good Would It Do?

What good would it do to call your Senators? They can't even come to support the Senate apology for never having outlawed lynching.

What good would it do to call your Representative? He hails from San Antonio in a district that reaches up from the south and steals a slice of Austin so that it can be safely watered down.

What good would it do for a Muslim in Israel to ask his government to do the right thing? What good would it do for a Kurd in Turkey to do the same? Or a Chinese farmer?

You are not oppressed, that is true.

But it would do no good for you to call your legislators, for their gaze is focused elsewhere. Like it or not, in this day, in this state, your voice has no significance.

Be happy with what you have.

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Carrying This Passport

Rick Segal reflects on the fact so many senators failed to sign on to the resolution apologizing for the historical unwillingness of the United States Senate to speak up in opposition to lynching. And he reflects on the state of being an American in the world today.

Segal/Hard to Be An American: Today it's hard to carry this passport.

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Note: The list of cosponsors of this resolution that was brought up for non-countable vote in late hours is evidently growing. It's virtually impossible to find a mainstream media discussion of who has formally joined the list. They seem to be too busy trumpeting the congratulatory news of the apology rather than looking into who didn't sign on and why. Still, evidently some senators are getting enough pressure after the fact that they're adding their names after the fact.

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