Equality is so much simpler than our country - myself included - make it. As PRIDE and protests abound on this very day - I simply long for equality. For you, for my neighbors, my friends, my family - and for me too. Idealism, a personality trait that at times seems to hinder and feed my passions of care, and then the nostalgia of my high school youth studying constitutional law and things like indepedence and revolutions for freedoms - I have come to realize how sacred mysticism can blind a soul. As you and I post hate messages, as we say divisive words against one another we overlook our majority power - caused by a few. Let that sink in a moment ... "caused by a few" I said. You see privileged, seasoned, lifetime positioned lawyers and lifetime positioned men and women of wealth on any side of the aisles - a few unaware people of power who cause our collective and cyclical divides. Equality is too too simple - even if some document of anitquity espoused that all are equal - all have inalienable rights ... The problem is that "all" with any exceptions (and there are so so many exceptions in the rules of law and in the rules of politics - ran by a so very few people) makes equality a falsehood - not an ideal - not a passion - not a truth. And we continue to divide. Our hate spewing, our side taking and our rock throwing enables the few to continue. Ideally, we, the majority would gather in hand holding, in equal judgements for the greater collective -US- and being to tell the few that they no longer have the power. We do - as a majority of equals - who when blame is quieted - can begin to see our role in creating change. #equality
~Kurt LaRose
