I don’t care as much about a broken system as I care about the broken children.
The fact that we question who deserves to be helped is plain heartless, ugly, and shameful. It’s not just insulting, it’s inhumane. Don’t get me started on how ungodly it is.
Let’s be clear about one thing, having money does not make you a better person. Being white and privileged, hell, being any color and privileged doesn’t make you better. One life does not matter more than another. Life is not Sophie’s Choice.
Allow me a sidebar: Yesterday in the grocery store check out lane I saw a magazine cover with Prince George in all his pudgy, cherubic glory. He’s just turned one, and he can rock a peter pan collar. And this is where our national attention is going. I thought to myself, an admitted celebrity gusher and lover of trashy magazines, that baby George has done nothing special to warrant the attention. He was simply born to Will and Kate. His cosmic lottery hit the jackpot. That’s it. All of us are tossed around like lotto machine balls and have no clue whether we are a part of a winning combination or not.
Our station in life is not all the product of hard work or little work. The rich are not automatic heroes, and the poor are not villains. Having money does not mean you work harder than someone who is poor. Being poor doesn’t mean you are lazy, unmotivated, or stupid. Being rich doesn’t give you character clout. Being poor doesn’t mean you are out to cheat the system and take advantage of generosity. Your level of wealth and privilege do not even mean you make better choices. There are plenty of wealthy people who make some pretty crappy choices. Trust me, I know people from both camps. The poor should not be vilified while the rich are lauded. You cannot thrust your own paradigm on to someone else. We all come from a different history and cannot expect others to have benefited from the same upbringing, education, and experiences we have had. This is common sense people.
Welfare queen or banking kingpin? It’s corporate welfare that’s screwing us all.
I ask that the judging stops. There comes a point we must think more with our hearts than with our brains. The beating heart should be a bleeding heart. These are human beings — mothers and fathers and children we are bandying about in the media, and meanwhile people are hurting. We are all born into this cosmic lotto and have done with it what we can based on the paradigms of those who raised us. A cycle is hard to break. Consider this, if you come from an educated middle-class or wealthy family, chances are you will carry-on in that cycle. The same philosophy can be applied to those who were born to a different lot in life. So many are malnourished in spirit and love as well as nutrition. My point is that we are not here to judge. It is in fact inhumane and certainly not an honorable way to behave. If we have privilege in one manner or another it doesn’t mean we have license to shame others who don’t.
Refugee children at the border
Families living in poverty
Hungry children
Parents on welfare
Abused kids
Academically struggling students
Abused women
The list goes on…