LIES, DECEPTION, DECEIT...LIVING IN THE US of A Part 2

I realized after writing LIES, DECEPTION, AND DECEIT...that I had left out those within our own country, the United States of America, the invisible, the unseen, the known, yet unknown, the forgotten. The poverty, the despair, the racism, the "Minute Man" waiting to shoot an immigrant crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border, the homelessness,

the uninsured, the under-insured, the under-educated, the ill, the elderly, the disabled, the barrios, the ghettos...the American Indian reservations, which all are a mostly hidden, yet sometimes exposed existence.

These are all grave and serious blights upon our country and many of those in power would rather not care to face and look upon what is broken, hurt, and oft times powerless, due to the decisions that they make on Senate floors, Congressional Committee hearings, upon State Assembly boardrooms. 

Veterans living upon the streets, waiting for health care, coming back from war forever transformed, waiting for education, missing limbs, post traumatic stress disorder...how can we do this to those who fought and served. These men and women felt as if they were doing their duty...yet, what do they come home to in return for their service, many, oh so many, not all, but sadly, many.  

I picked up a magazine the other day, "Positively Aware." It is a magazine I never knew existed and what caught my attention was the headline article which was upon the cover, along with a striking African American male's face. Here is what it says: 

"HIV IN THE SOUTH
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
IN THE SOUTHERN U.S., HIV IS A DISEASE OF POVERTY, IGNORANCE, AND RACISM..." 

This title and the man's face really struck a string, a fiber upon my heart. I have not yet fully read the article. I do, of course, plan to do so. I felt ashamed that I was unaware of this serious problem within the HIV Community of the deep south. The HIV rate is in comparison to sub-Saharan Africa...and startling. Many of these people are unable to pay the insurance premiums, even with ObamaCare. This means that vital drugs and treatments

are unavailable to the vulnerable HIV population. The deep south is facing a big problem here, but also large cities such as Chicago and Detroit face the same. 

Detroit has faced shut off of waters by corporations who have privatized the water making incredibly expensive for the poor or even the middle class to pay. It is being called "Apartheid in Detroit." http://www.occupy.com/article/apartheid-detroit-water-corporations-not-people 

In Chicago many a building goes unoccupied, vacant, and the projects become poorer and poorer and little money goes into education. The student becomes apathetic and in their deepest of hearts they feel no hope...so it's anger, drugs, violence, gangs...they feel as if no one cares.

We have the same in many a big city here in the US of A, Philadelphia, LA aka Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York. There are so many without health insurance, inadequate pay for a high cost of living, unhealthy living conditions, police violence and discrimination, racism, homelessness, poverty levels, and hunger. Child violence and rape...We have gun violence, school shootings, shopping mall shootings, yes, here in the US of A.

Then of course, we have our Indian Reservations (I did a small piece about the American Indian Reservations and a pictorial in "Welcome to the Rez." For that is what the American Indian has named "their home." It is a mainly dismal picture on many a reservation, our First Peoples, it is a shameful mark upon our history and currently. Corporations still wish to rob the resources on the lands of the American Indian. The government still continues to disregard treaties from many years ago. I could write so much more, an entire piece...which is on my list. It is heartbreaking. 

 We have a government that is mainly corrupt and in the pockets of big money. "We the People, is "They the Money." Yet, hope does remain for grassroots movements are springing up. I am proud to say that the Occupy Wall Street Movement began here in the US of A. Many other Occupy groups are all over the country and all over the world. There are a multitude of peoples now speaking up and no longer care for how our country has evolved. 

Simon Bolivar,

 the infamous freedom fighter of Latin America, stated and warned, to look out for the encroaching imperialism of the United States. Our America: A Hispanic History of  the United States....Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

I say let the people rise up from the ashes. It is written in our Declaration of Independence that it is our DUTY to overthrow an unservable and corrupt government. So people rising is not "un-American", as so many think, it is "un-american" not to do so! Just to let you know I do not care for calling the United States "America."  I feel that it is insulting to Canada and to all of Latin America. I am a rebel and to be a rebel takes courage and I believe that we need that courage here in the US of A, now more than ever...will you rise up in courage with me...?

“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty” Simon Bolivar

“The first duty of a government is to give education to the people”  Simon Bolivar

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/sim%C3%B3n_bol%C3%ADvar/

ALL MY LOVE, MARIA JUAREZ BEAM (BOHEME)

PAZ Y AMOR