I hate getting into politics on here, as the goal of this blog is to be a chronicle of the people and places of Baltimore, but there are sometimes when the soapbox is there and I’m too angry to back away from it.
Sure, it was organized by Glenn Beck, with whom I can’t reasonably agree 100%, but this 912 Project thing was supposed to be a rally to bring us back to where we were on the day after 9/11. If I remember correctly, the day after 9/11, we weren’t pointing fingers at each other. We weren’t reducing the deaths of some three-thousand people into an insult against a political party. We were rallied together on 9/12, true — but it was a rally for unity and compassion in a time when our principals and values were challenged with blindness and anger and ultimate violence.
So if you truly want to relive the day after 9/11, to those who want to seek that fleeting moment in time where America was truly one nation, under whichever god or deity or lack thereof you may believe in, then put down your talking points, your insults, your cries of fascism and socialism and communist and all the other contradictory insults, your one-sided arguments and your anger and EMBRACE your fellow American — Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Communist, Independent, Hippie, Pacifist or whatever label you might throw around and remember that while it is in the spirit of our American rights to disagree, it is also that same spirit that unites us as a nation, as a people, against the very same thing that could have — but did not! — bring us to our knees eight years ago.
(photo via MeetTheCrazies)
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